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Immigration Emergency: Extraordinary European Council must deal with emergency in the Mediterranean. Mario Mauro MEP

EPP Group in the European Parliament

"It is absolutely essential to convene an extraordinary Council of EU Heads of State and Government in the next few days to deal with an epic emergency comparable in intensity and scale to the fall of the Soviet Bloc in 1989", said Mario Mauro MEP, Head of the Italian Delegation (PDL) of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, explaining the content of a letter he sent today to the European Council President, Herman Van Rompuy, to the European Commission President, José Manuel Barroso, and the European Parliament President, Jerzy Buzek.

World Social Forum an unqualified success, say GUE/NGL MEPs

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

A delegation of eight Members from the European Parliament’s GUE/NGL Group - Ilda Figueiredo, Vice-President of GUE/NGL, Thomas Händel, Sabine Lösing, Willy Meyer, Alfreds Rubiks, Helmut Scholz, Søren Søndergard and Gabi Zimmer - as well as eight guests from social movements and associations from various countries, invited by GUE/NGL, participated in the work of the World Social Forum in Dakar, February 6 - 11, 2011.

 

CEEP: Annual Growth Survey an improvement, but policies must be balanced

CEEP - European Centre of Employers and Enterprises providing public services

CEEP at MEDPOL

This was the key message that Carl Cederschiöld, President of CEEP, presented at the Macroeconomic Dialogue meeting with the European social partners today in Brussels.

Immigrés clandestins: l'Europe doit aider l'Italie. Joseph Daul, MdPE, Président du Groupe PPE et Mario Mauro, MdPE

EPP Group in the European Parliament

Le Président du Groupe PPE et le Chef de la Délégation italienne du PDL soutiennent la demande d'aide de l'Italie à l'Union européenne pour affronter une vague sans précédent d'immigrés clandestins tunisiens: près de 1.000 personnes arrivées à Lampedusa depuis 24 heures.

 

"Faute de quoi, le risque d'une crise humanitaire serait élevé", a averti Joseph Daul.

 

Egypt: Departure of Mubarak - beginning of a peaceful transition. Joseph Daul MEP, Chairman of the EPP Group and Ioannis Kasoulides MEP

EPP Group in the European Parliament

"The departure of Hosni Mubarak is the beginning of the peaceful transition of Egypt towards pluralistic democracy, good governance and human rights responding to the aspirations of the Egyptian people.

 

The Egyptians have now the responsibility to build a peaceful, stable and democratic country and the EU must act in solidarity with them by all possible means", declared Joseph Daul MEP, Chairman of the EPP Group and Ioannis Kasoulides MEP, Vice-Chairman of the EPP Group responsible for Foreign Affairs.

 

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ALDE Senior MEP in Cairo to assess situation at first hand

ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

Edward McMillan-Scott (LibDem, UK), Vice-President of the European Parliament responsible for democracy and founder of the European Union’s €160m democracy and human rights instrument, is currently inEgypt’s capital Cairo to assess the situation at first hand.





At a joint press conference with Dr Ayman Nour, leader of the El Ghad liberal party, Edward McMillan-Scott said:



Verhofstadt on Egypt: a triumph for freedom and democracy

ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

"Today is a historic moment" said ALDE group Leader Guy Verhofstadt commenting on the announcement that Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down. "After more than two weeks of demonstrations, the Egyptian people finally got what they have been fighting for: freedom and democracy."
 

100 000 Euro compensation for private investor protection

ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

"Customers who place money with investment funds through financial service companies guilty of committing crimes like fraud or which are insolvent should receive a higher compensation," according to Olle Schmidt MEP (Folkpartiet, Sweden) author of a report for the European Parliament on investor-compensation schemes due to be discussed on Monday evening at a meeting of the Economic and Monetary Affairs committee.

ALDE insists that EU-India FTA insures continued availability of generic medicines

ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

During the final stages of negotiations, between the EU and India for a free trade agreement (FTA) which began in 2007 and will probably conclude this Spring, the ALDE Group in the European Parliament organised a seminar today to reiterate their concern over the Commission's alleged intention to include a "data exclusivity" provision within the agreement, that will delay and limit market entry of generic medicines, as well as increase prices.

Green light for the EURONEST Parliamentary Assembly. Gunnar Hökmark MEP

EPP Group in the European Parliament

"I welcome today's decision of the European Parliament's executive body to give a green light to the EURONEST Parliamentary Assembly. We can now progress within the Eastern Partnership by launching its parliamentary assembly. The agreement was founded on the suspension of Belarus from the Assembly until the undemocratic development in the country has been reversed", commented Gunnar Hökmark MEP, EPP Group spokesperson on the Eastern Partnership, during today's decision by the Conference of Presidents to proceed towards a constituent Assembly this spring.

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