Monthly Archives: December 2013

MEPs agree on delaying auction of CO2 pollution permits

The European Parliament today finally approved plans to delay the auctioning of some CO2 pollution permits by a few years in order to allow the market price of carbon to recover and thus encourage companies to invest in less-polluting te…

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EU rules on rescue at sea: no more time to quibble while migrants drown

Tonight the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee adopted a regulation establishing rules for improving the surveillance of the external sea borders in the context of operations coordinated by the Frontex Agency with the aim of …

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Human rights and common sense must prevail in Croatia

The President of the ALDE Group in the EP, Guy Verhofstadt takes note of the recent referendum that was held in Croatia to ammend the Constitution and commented:

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Human rights and common sense must prevail in Croatia

The President of the ALDE Group in the EP, Guy Verhofstadt takes note of the recent referendum that was held in Croatia to ammend the Constitution and commented:

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Europeans and Ukrainians have a common destiny

Nathalie Griesbeck, Violeta Moskalu, Marielle de Sarnez and Mykola Katerynchuk, leader of the European Party of Ukraine
MEPs Marielle de Sarnez and Nathalie Griesbeck, along with former MEP Bernard Lehideux, have been in Kiev, in Ukraine, …

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Guy Verhofstadt wishes Christian Lindner a lot of success with his appointment as the new leader of the German liberals

Guy Verhofstadt wishes Christian Lindner a lot of success with his appointment as the new leader of the German liberals
Today the German liberals chose a new party chairman at their conference in Berlin. The thirty-four year old Christian Lindner succeeds Philipp Rösler at the head of the FDP. Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the Liberals in the European Parliament, acknowledges that the German liberals have a difficult task ahead now that the FDP has no longer elected representatives in the Federal Parliament, after the last Bundestag elections in September: “I wish Christian and his new team a lot of strength and success. I am convinced they have everything it takes to overcome the challenges they face,” Verhofstadt said .

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WTO trade package deal in Bali restores credibility of WTO as forum for multilateral negotiations

WTO trade package deal in Bali restores credibility of WTO as forum for multilateral negotiations
The 9th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC9) has just concluded in Bali having reached a long-awaited agreement to free up world trade through improved customs procedures that have been holding up the cross-border movement of goods. The Conference also addressed sensitive issues like food security in some of the less developed countries. But in political terms, it was seen as vital to restore credibility to an organisation that was perceived to be losing authority and legitimacy as a trade negotiating forum under the Doha ‘development’ round.

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Guy Verhofstadt : ” A piece of South Africa has died »

Guy Verhofstadt , leader of the Liberals and Democrats in the European Parliament, primarily remembers Nelson Mandela as a warm personality: “I have had the honour to meet him three times. He was an incredibly impressive man: direct in hi…

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UKIP parental leave views are ‘straight out of the Victorian era’ – Lib Dem MEP Rebecca Taylor

Liberal Democrat MEP Rebecca Taylor has launched a scathing attack on UKIP’s sexist and patronising approach to women, following comments made by UKIP MEP Paul Nuttall over Nick Clegg’s proposals to update the system of parental leave. Nuttall, UKIP’s Deputy …

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