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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Two pack: Parliament gives formal backing to the European Redemption Fund
During today’s plenary session the European Parliament approved its first reading on two Regulations presented by the Commission last November to enhance the coordination and surveillance of budgetary surveillance for all euro-area Member…
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Tagged Leader Press releases and news,Press Release,ECON :: Economic and Monetary Affairs,Euro zone
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Speech by Guy Verhofstadt – Intervention in plenary
Dear colleagues.
Here we are again.
The Council has just agreed on a bail-out. This time 100 billion for the Spanish banks. And the markets don’t believe us. Monday and yesterday, spreads have gone up dramatically, to more then 500 ba…
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Tagged Leader Speeches
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Improving disaster response in Europe
As part of my parliamentary duties on the European Parliament’s “environment” committee (environment, public health and food safety) , I am following a proposal on the European Union’s “civil protection mechanism”. Yesterday I met the European Commissi…
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Mass demonstrations in Moscow are first shoots of a Russian political Spring
In reaction to the protests in Russia today which saw one hundred thousand people take to the streets to demand reforms, Guy Verhofstadt, ALDE Leader says the Russian authorities should take immediate concrete steps to implement reform.
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Tagged Press Release,EU in the World,Democracy promotion,AFET :: Foreign Affairs,Russia and ex-Soviet Union
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Schengen: EP must take Council to Court and halt all negotiations in JHA
Today the European Parliament held an emergency debate on Schengen following the decision taken by Justice and Home Affairs Ministers on 8 June to remove from the European Parliament its co-legislative rights on the new Schengen package -…
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Tagged Justice and Home Affairs, Press Release,Civil Liberties,LIBE :: Civil Liberties
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Dismantling obstacles to active cross-border volunteering
Over 100 million people volunteer regularly across Europe and people of all ages are participating in volunteering in the fields of education, culture, youth policies, sport, the environment, sustainable development, health and rights adv…
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Tagged Press Release,Employment and Social Affairs
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ALDE Newsletter June 2012
15 June 2012 Headlines ALDE NewsNetworking EUROPEAN COMMISSION STATEMENTProfiles of MEPs in the News ALDE News Liberals and Democrats call for pro-growth structural reform to fight unemployment Unemployment in the EU rose to 10.3% in…
Schengen: Council declares war on the European Parliament
Today EU Justice and Home Affairs Ministers agreed to exclude the Parliament from a role in the shaping of the new Schengen evaluation mechanism, by changing the legal basis from article 77 of the Treaty – meaning that the EP decides on a…
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Tagged Justice and Home Affairs, Press Release,Civil Liberties,LIBE :: Civil Liberties
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Mortgage must be a flexible and transparent contract tailor-made on consumers
After long negotiations the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee voted today on a first reading the report on credit agreements relating to residential property which prime goal is, according to ALDE spokesperson …
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Tagged Press Release,Recovery strategy,ECON :: Economic and Monetary Affairs
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ALDE- Asian network conference meets to discuss trade between continents
The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), led by its President, Guy Verhofstadt is hosting today a delegation of members of parliament and party leaders from ten Asian countries for a two day meeting on the subject of “T…
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