ELDR launched membership for individuals: let your liberal voice be heard!

The ELDR Party has taken a significant step forward towards citizens’ participation at EU level by launching associate membership of the ELDR Party for individuals.

“Direct participation is all about nourishing the quality of future democracy. And with this initiative ELDR would like to add flesh to the bones to what was introduced in 1992 by the Maastricht Treaty: the European citizenship” commented Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, President of the ELDR Party.

The European Non-Ferrous Metals industry welcomes the issuing of the Communication on Raw Materials in follow-up to the 2008 Communication, and calls for swift and concrete implementation of the objectives and actions identified.

The European Commission today presented its long-postponed raw materials strategy after months of delay. The Greens are expressing concern that, instead of setting out a coherent and focused strategy, the Commission's approach is too broad and not well defined. Commenting on the strategy, Green MEP Reinhard Bütikofer, the EP draftsperson on the strategy, said:

In a joint statement today, Joseph Daul MEP, EPP Group Chairman and Ioannis Kasoulides MEP, Vice-Chairman of the EPP Group responsible for external relations, welcome the Declaration on Egypt, adopted by the EU's Foreign Affairs Ministers on Monday.

"The European Union must continue to insist that the fundamental civic rights of the Egyptian people must be respected. They must be granted the right to peaceful assembly and association and to the freedom of expression. Their right to determine their own destiny has to be respected", said the two EPP Group leaders.

The European Parliament's Employment Committee gave their response to the European Commission's strategy on pensions today.  ALDE highlights the fact that Member States economies are interdependent and that the future sustainability of pension systems should be taken into account in the framework of macro economic surveillance, nonetheless it is very clear that Member States retain full responsibility for the organisational set-up of their own pension systems.