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EU must act on containers lost at sea and agree a more coherent maritime strategy

ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

Strasbourg, 21 October 2010

 

ALDE MEP Gesine Meissner (FDP, Germany), Rapporteur on Integrated Maritime Policy (IMP) whose report was adopted in the European Parliament this morning drew attention to the vast number of containers lost at sea from commercial shipping and the potential damage they are presenting both to the environment and to other shipping.

 

Bananas: Anticipating the next set of accompanying measures

ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

The ACP countries that export bananas traditionally benefit from a preferential tariff regime for access to the EU markets.  All the other banana producing countries pay for the right of entry to the European market except the ACP countries.  The WTO has questioned this system and is in the process of reforming it.  As rights of entry for the competitor countries of the ACP will decrease from €176 to €114 per ton, the competitive situation for the ACP countries is deteriorating.  To reinforce their competitiveness, the European Commission has proposed accompany

PES President calls for public debate with EPP President on how to confront the far right in Europe

PES - Party of European Socialists

21 October 2010
 

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, the President of the Party of European Socialists (PES) has called for a public debate with the President of the European Peoples Party (EPP),Wilfried Martens on how to confront the extreme right in Europe.

 

‘Cultural bogeymen are no substitute for honest economic answers’

 

Maternity leave: good news for mothers and gender equality

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

Welcoming today's vote on maternity leave as a "boost for mothers and fathers across Europe", Portuguese GUE/NGL MEP Ilda Figueiredo said that MEPs' approval of proposals to guarantee decent maternity leave would support pregnant workers and aid efforts to narrow the gender pay gap.

 

International crisis: alternative policies are necessary!

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

Strasbourg 20/10/10

The European Parliament's plenary session today adopted the report by the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (CRIS Committee).

EP adopts tougher rules for debtors

ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

Strasbourg, 20 October 2010

 

EP draws its lessons from financial crisis

ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

Brussels, 20 October 2010

Following a key-debate on the G20 summit and economical and financial issues the European Parliament adopted today by a large majority (501 +/ 76 -) the interim report on the lessons learned from the financial crisis.

 

The European Union needs its own budget

ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

The four largest political groups in the European Parliament are united in believing that it is now time to endow the Union with more budgetary autonomy, to end the destructive disputes over net national contributions and to find a sustainable source of revenue that has legitimacy with the citizens of Europe.

 

2011 Budget: ALDE is concerned about Council's inflexibility

ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

Strasbourg, 20th October 2010
 

The disregard of the Council hitherto to the demands of the European Parliament on the 2011 Budget is worrying.  The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe understands the budgetary difficulties which member states are struggling with, but considers that its vision for the 2011 budget is reasonable and justified which will be born out in negotiations seeking to reconcile to the two positions.

 

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