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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.

Turkey: EP calls on Turkey to intensify reforms. Ria Oomen-Ruijten MEP

EPP Group in the European Parliament

Turkey should intensify it reforms. This is Parliament's key message in its Resolution on Turkey's 2010 Progress Report which was adopted today in the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee with a vast majority (51 votes in favour and 5 against).

 

ALDE calls for further progress on reforms in Turkey

ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

The European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee today approved Turkey's 2010 progress report sending a strong message of support for further reforms ahead of Turkey's general elections this June.

LAMBSDORFF_90.pngAlexander Graf Lambsdorff MEP (FDP, Germany), ALDE shadow rapporteur for accession negotiations with Turkey, said:

"We continue to support the long-lasting and open-ended process of accession negotiations - but we also point to many shortcomings that neither Turkey, nor the EU can be satisfied with.

MEPs question former EMA Director's links with pharmaceutical industry

ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

ALDE MEPs Corinne Lepage (CAP 21, France) and Antonyia Parvanova (NMSP, Bulgaria) sent a letter to the European Medicines Agency and a written question to the European Commission on the legality of Thomas Lönngren's joining certain private sector companies.

EU-US Information Society Dialogue - ETNO and EABC call for a transatlantic digital agenda

ETNO - European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association

Brussels – How to ensure that ICT policies reflect the increasingly global environment is the main theme of a Digital Economy Workshop hosted on 9-10 February jointly by ETNO and the European-American Business Council (EABC) in the confines of the EU-US Information Society Dialogue, with the participation among others of Robert Madelin, Director General DG Information Society, William Kennard, US Ambassador to the US, Lawrence Strickling, NTIA and Media.

 

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