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Discharge postponed for European Police College and European Medicines Agency. Monica Macovei MEP

EPP Group in the European Parliament

The European Parliament today postponed the discharge for two EU agencies for the financial year 2009. Monica Macovei is the EPP Group Shadow Rapporteur for the discharge of all EU agencies ('discharge' is the approval of how the EU institutions implemented their budget in that financial year and the closure of that budget).

Bank stress tests: EPP Group wants more clarity on upcoming tests. Corien Wortmann-Kool MEP and Jean-Paul Gauzès MEP

EPP Group in the European Parliament

The EPP Group wants more clarity on the 2011 stress tests on the EU banking sector and wants guarantees from the European Commission to prevent a repetition of 2010, when the stress tests failed to restore confidence in the EU banking sector.

Discharge 2009: Parliament calls for more efficiency for itself. Ville Itälä MEP

EPP Group in the European Parliament

The European Parliament today adopted the Report and granted the discharge of the European Parliament's budget for 2009 with a large majority, on a proposal by Rapporteur Ville Itälä MEP.

In his Report, Mr Itälä highlighted the need to find the most cost-effective ways of using financial and staff resources, including possible savings. Some of the recommendations adopted concern the travelling between the three places of work and the Parliament's security.

Active ageing and solidarity of generations. Martin Kastler MEP

EPP Group in the European Parliament

European Year 2012 / Social aspects in focus / Parliament and Council Reach Agreement on campaign details

The European Year 2012 has finally got a name. 'Active ageing and solidarity of generations' is the title Parliament and Council agreed on in Strasbourg last night. "We have set out a clear message for the European Year 2012", said Martin Kastler MEP who is the European Parliament Rapporteur on the European Year 2012.

Lobbying - fight for transparency goes on

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

Calling proposals to establish a common register for lobbyists for EU institutions "a small step towards more openness", GUE/NGL MEP Søren Søndergaard today told MEPs that tighter, mandatory rules were needed to ensure transparency.
 

Schengen agreement must not be called into question

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

Debating a Commission plan to allow member states to temporarily reintroduce border controls in the Schengen area, GUE/NGL MEP Rui Tavares (Portugal) said that "we cannot and must not put Schengen to one side; this would be damaging to the European Union."

New labelling rules a boost for consumers and animal rights

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

Consumers, allergy sufferers and animals will benefit from new textiles-labelling rules to be voted on today by the European Parliament, according to GUE/NGL MEP Eva-Britt Svensson.
 

EU common foreign and security policy in dire need of a peaceful approach

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

"In many areas, the EU's foreign policy has failed: in the Arab world, in Afghanistan, in dealing with the Palestinian problem and the conflicts in our eastern neighbourhood", GUE/NGL Chair Lothar Bisky told Catherine Ashton, responding to the EU's High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) on the main aspects and basic choices of the EU in this field.

Cloning - Commission's scaremongering tactics on WTO confirmed in leaked Council document

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

After the long and failed negotiations on new kinds of food, including meat from cloned animals, rapporteur for the European Parliament, Kartika Liotard (GUE/NGL, Netherlands) revealed a "secret" document from the Legal Service of the Council of Ministers that stated that a ban on products from clones and their offspring is actually defensible under WTO rules.

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