Brazil’s Rousseff defends Catalan’s right to self-determination
The former president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, defends “the right to self-determination” as long as it’s carried out “with respect to democracy.” During the press [...]
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Tajani supports Rajoy in unity of Spain
In his reaction on Declaration of independence of Catalan Republic, the president of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani (EPP, Italy) gave his support to Prime Minister of [...]
Hommage à Daphne Caruana Galizia
MEPs unanimously honored journalist’s work, denounced an attack on democracy, and called for numerous concrete actions in Malta and at EU level. For decades Daphne Caruana [...]
Sakharov Prize top nominees 2017
The finalists for this year’s Sakharov Prize have been announced. The laureate will be selected on 26 October by the President and the political group leaders. Aura [...]
Venezuela: EP calls for sanctions
The EU should freeze the EU assets of all those involved in the serious violations of human rights in Venezuela and restrict their access to EU territory, MEPs urged on [...]
European Parliament reduction
Constitutional Affairs Committee MEPs debated shrinking the Parliament after the UK has left the EU to make room for new member states and pan-European electoral lists. A new [...]
EU suffers lack of polyglots
Estonian ministers in appearances in European Parliament were rather embarrassing because of lack of English skills, according to philologist Tuuli Oder . “The use of [...]
Terrorism-EU: a new special committee
To fight terrorism across the EU the European Parliament approved setting up a 12-month special committee to address the practical and legislative deficiencies. The special [...]
EU-Turkey: accession talk on risk
”This Parliament speaks with one, clear and loud voice in condemning the Turkish government’s serious decline in democratic standards, and continues to support the [...]
MEPs on EU industrial strategy
The European Parliament passed a resolution today on “Building an ambitious EU industrial strategy as a strategic priority for growth, employment and innovation in [...]
EP asks multinationals to report their tax bills
Large firms must make information about the tax they pay in each country in the world publicly available, say MEPs after a debate and vote in plenary, today. They backed a [...]
Europarliament pivots migration
21.06.2017. The European Parliament hosted the conference on migration management ahead of the EU summit to launch a platform for regular dialogue between all actors [...]
MEPs to devote to human rights in Turkey
Brusssels. 20.06.2017. Turkey’s EU accession talks should be suspended if the proposed changes to the constitution go ahead, committee MEPs recommended on Tuesday. Foreign [...]
MEPs support dialogue with Cuba
20.06.2017. Brussels. Foreign Affairs Committee MEPs gave their consent to the first ever EU-Cuba cooperation agreement, expanding bilateral trade, promoting dialogue and [...]
#Breixt: MEPs protective of citizens rights
European Parliament President Antonio Tajani and Brexit coordinator Guy Verhofstadt both stressed once more the need to protect citizens in reaction to the start of [...]
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