EP: ‘Five Stars’ to join Liberals
Today he Italian Five Star movement launches negotiations over joining ALDE group in the European Parliament, meaning an enlargement of the EP Liberals by 17 MEPs. [...]
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MEPs visit Israel and Jordan
A delegation of the European Parliament, headed by Elmar BROK, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, visited Israel, the West Bank and Jordan from 2 January to 6 [...]
Europarliament wishes Merry Xmas!
“From all of us at the European Parliament, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!” – says the announcement on the site of the EP under an image, pictured [...]
Sakharov to ISIS victims
Islamic State survivors and Iraqi Yazidi activists Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar received today Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. The two women were [...]
EU-Turkey: adieu, membership!
Anna van Densky, OPINION A long journey of Turkey to the European Union clearly came to a halt – in the European Parliament’s plenary there were just a few MEPs [...]
EFDD group dissolved in the EP
Due to the defection of a latvian MEP, the EP announced today taht the EFDD Group, chaird by Nigel Farake (UK/UKIP) is dissolved. To be valid, a group needs to be composed by [...]
OLD AND NEW EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTS: FACTS AND FIGURES
The old European Parliament passed its last laws in April, making a total of over 1,000 in 2009-2014. The new one, elected on 22-25 May, takes office on 1 July. Here is a [...]
A COMMON PROCEDURE FOR EU VERHICLE CHECKS
A deal with EU member states on minimum common standards for periodic vehicle inspections, vehicle registration documents and roadside inspections of commercial vehicles [...]
NEW EUROPEAN RULES FOR AIRPORT SAFETY
Today new rules providing for the first time common standards for safe design, operation and maintenance in over 700 of the largest EU and EEA airports are becoming [...]
EP VOTES NEW RULES TO AVOID AIRCRAFTS ACCIDENTS
The European Parliament adopted today new rules to help prevent aircraft accidents. With the “Regulation on the reporting, analysis and follow up [...]
EP VOTES NEW ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING RULES
The ultimate owners of companies and trusts would have to be listed in public registers in EU countries, under updated draft anti-money laundering rules approved by the [...]
THE 2014 EUROPEAN ELECTIONS: THIS TIME IT’S DIFFERENT
400 million Europeans to vote for a new Parliament and a new EU executive. The countdown has started: there are 100 days to go until the first polling stations open for the [...]
“EAT WELL –FEEL GOOD” A NEW EU FOOD PROGRAMME FOR SCHOOL
The European Commission published a proposal bringing together two currently separate school schemes, the School Fruit Scheme and the School Milk Scheme, under a joint [...]
HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN SAHEL
Tuesday, 22nd of October 2013, the European Parliament has adopted the report Tannock on the situation of human rights in the Sahel region which includes a section on [...]
EP: RUSSIA HAS TO RESPECT TIES EU-EASTERN EUROPE
Russia must respect the right of the EU’s eastern neighbours to choose whether to enter into association agreements with the EU, say MEPs in a resolution passed on [...]
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