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Tomorrow, just before President Obama delivers a major speech on national security issues — including his policy on Guantánamo, still gripped by a prison-wide hunger strike by men in despair at ever being released or receiving...

Author(s): Cillian Donnelly As the European Parliament votes to endorse a negotiating mandate for a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States, questions still remain about the transparency surrounding the last major EU...

Debating Europe is happy to have partnered with the “United States of Europe” project – a travelling exhibition about European identity, citizenship and today’s Europe organised by the Paris branch of the German...

KL Report BRUSSELS Continuing its advocacy work on the execution of Afzal Guru and its implications in Kashmir, ICHR has, with its intense lobbying, persuaded various political groups and considerable... Read more » The post...

13:01, — Politics The situation with human rights has not changed in Belarus, the MEP believes. Jacek Saryusz-Wolski does not agree with the assessments made by the European Parliament delegation’s reporter on Belarus, Radio...

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As long as the European Union is unilaterally pursuing climate goals while other global actors are not following suit, it will suffer consequences in terms of competitiveness, writes Jacek Saryusz-Wolski.

Brussels, 23-5-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — The European Commission welcomed today’s adoption by the European Parliament of the Commission proposal to make the internal market for pyrotechnic articles leaner. Further to this vote...

European Commission Olli REHN Vice-President of the European Commission and member of the Commission responsible for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro Social pillar of the of EMU – Commission statement in the European...

Interesting vote in the European Parliament on Tuesday about tackling tax fraud, tax evasion and tax havens. The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour (582-35), with all the Lib Dem MEPs in the 582. And in amongst...

Speaking in the EU Parliament at Strasbourg today Sinn Féin MEP, Martina Anderson has criticised the EU response to the monetary crisis for being driven by blinkered ideology. Martina Anderson said: “Instead of changing the...

Six years after Denmark passed a law mandating that telecommunication companies retain and store their customers' personal data for up to two years, local advocacy groups and the telecom industry are pushing for immediate...

Following an impassioned debate in the European Parliament, MEPs are expected to vote today (23 May) on a hard-fought resolution to back the launch of negotiations on a Transatlantic trade agreement, though not without red lines.

Wind turbines in Neuenkirchen, Germany Dirk Ingo Franke/Wikimedia Commons Members of the European Parliament today debate the creation of a single renewable energy market. The European Union aims to produce 20 per cent of its...

Keith Taylor, member of the European Parliament for the South East of England, has joined campaigners in condemning UEFA’s decision to hold the under 21 championships in Israel. Mr Taylor’s intervention comes as UEFA holds its...

A senior British member of British Parliament blasted as ‘outrageous’ claims that the European Parliament does not recognize British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. The case first surfaced when MercoPress reported that a...

Elmar Brok, Chairperson of the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs from the Group of the European People's Party, EPP, has congratulated former Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, with his election victory. "I would...

Karel De Gucht, European Commissioner for Trade, remarks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Strasbourg, 23-5-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — From the outset, let me underline the importance of this Parliament’s...

European Commission Karel De Gucht European Commissioner for Trade Speech: Plenary debate of the European Parliament on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership/ Strasbourg 22 May 2013 From the outset, let me...

Co-authored by Jens-Henrik Jeppesen, CDT Director of European Affairs It has been more than a year since the European Union Data Protection Regulation (DPR) was unveiled, including a controversial proposal known as the "Right...

By MEP Doris Gisela Pack (DE/EPP) What was it like to grow up in a Sarajevo under siege? Now that we are some years on from the terrible events of the early nineties, I thought it was time for some reflection. In cooperation...

The European Parliament has) approved a non-binding resolution calling for a mandatory European Union-wide share for renewables for 2030, but failed to set the target in the 40-45 per cent range. The resolution says the EU... All similar articles: 193 »

It all looks awfully dark... principally because popular sentiment is barred out of "democracy." The Satanic societies know their program is hated and feared by the unrepresented majority, and they intend to keep frantic...

Hopes that Malta would get help to relocate irregular migrants were dashed as “harsh resistance” forced a change of plans. Speaking at the European Parliament, European Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström said the...

Draft laws setting up a single EU bank supervisory system were approved in a plenary vote on Wednesday. The European Central Bank will supervise the Eurozone's largest banks directly and have a say in supervising other banks....

Sharon Bowles MEP, Chair of the influential Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee in the European Parliament, has overseen the signing into law of ESA 2010, the European System of National and Regional Accounts, after a...

The notion of ‘consumer’ is a key concept de­limiting the application of consumer-pro­tection rules. However, not only is there no con­sis­tent and uniform definition in EU law, there are also divergences amongst the Member...

Author: Stefanos Evripidou PRESIDENT NICOS Anastasiades yesterday asked the European Union to provide additional funding to help Cyprus get out of the mess it’s in. Speaking from Brussels where he attended the European Council...