Monthly Archives: February 2015

Do not repeat the mistakes we made in Kosovo

During today’s debate on the upcoming European Council dealing with the situation in Ukraine, ALDE Group leader Guy Verhofstadt called upon the government leaders to show unity, strength and determination:

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EU unemployment creating lost generation warn ALDE MEPs

EU unemployment creating lost generation warn ALDE MEPs
MEPs today debated plans to make €1 billion in Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) funding i.e. one-third of the total for 2014-2020 – available in 2015. This plan could deliver a thirtyfold increase in the funding made available for EU member states in 2015 to support their efforts to get 650,000 young people into work.

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ALDE launches five point counter-terrorism plan

The Liberal and Democrat Group (ALDE) in the European Parliament today launched their proposals for an EU anti-terrorism strategy ahead of this week’s European Summit on counter-terrorism measures. The ALDE plan consists of five points:

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ALDE launches five point counter-terrorism plan

The Liberal and Democrat Group (ALDE) in the European Parliament today launched their proposals for an EU anti-terrorism strategy ahead of this week’s European Summit on counter-terrorism measures. The ALDE plan consists of five points:

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Greek WWII reparations claims go against the European spirit (followed by German version)

Greek WWII reparations claims go against the European spirit (followed by German version)
Yesterday Prime Minister Tsipras declared that his country has a “moral obligation” to claim reparations from Germany for the damages brought by the Nazis during World War II: “A moral obligation to our people, to history, to all Europeans who fought and gave their blood against Nazism,” he said.

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Draft Council Conclusions show reckless lack of ambition in fight against terrorism

Commenting on the draft Council Conclusions, ahead of next week’s European Summit on counter-terrorism measures, ALDE Group Leader Guy Verhofstadt firmly criticises the lack of ambition by EU government leaders:

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ALDE welcomes the progress made towards an EU budget based on own resources

At the invitation of the Parliamentary Committee on Budgets (BUDG), the former Prime Minister and Vice-President of the European Commission, Mario Monti, gave an update today on the work of the Inter-institutional high level group, that h…

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Parliament sets up “special committee” on LuxLeaks

Today, the leaders of the political groups have decided to end the procedural turf war on the enquiry into tax evasion and tax fraud in Europe. After the opinion of the legal service of the European Parliament declaring that the mandate p…

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Urgent measures needed to safeguard EU fundamental rights

Today, Liberals and Democrats in the European Parliament held a seminar to launch their proposal for a “European Democratic Governance Pact” in Brussels.

The proposed Democratic Governance Pact should become for Democracy, the Rule of La…

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Greece: First structural reforms before any talk of debt relief

Greece: First structural reforms before any talk of debt relief
Commenting on the debt swap proposals by Greek Finance Minister Varoufakis, ALDE Group leader Guy Verhofstadt said:

“We first want to see serious and concrete structural reform plans from the Greek government before the EU can possibly enter into any negotiations on debt relief.”

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