The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mary Honeyball: Benedict XVI won't address the European parliament because of our 'militant secularism'. What a foolish and self-defeating stance
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
The Labour Party will select its candidate today to stand in the Ireland South constituency for next year’s European Parliament elections.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
A LARGE turnout of delegates is expected this afternoon to pick the Labour Party’s candidate for the South constituency in next year’s European Parliament elections.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday
Officially, Emperor Pope Benedict XVI declined the invitation to address the European Parliament this year owing to other commitments and his age. Unofficially, according to sources in this Times report , it’s because of the church hierarchy’s “great disillusionment” with the European project as the EU “has become more and more secularist”. Besides concern with the Anglican church’s supernatural well-being,...
Air Options (Free subscription) | yesterday
The new pan European laws might be crucial to curb smuggling when refrigerants that deplete ozone are phased out in the forthcoming years. The European Union’s council of Ministers and the European Parliament have already approved the directive that requires all the member states of the EU to ensure that environmental offences are termed as [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Comment is free: Mary Honeyball: Benedict XVI won't address the European parliament because of our 'militant secularism'. What a foolish and self-defeating stance
Ukrainian News Agency - Agency news (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Yuschenko told this at a conference entitled "Regional Dialogue" [the regional dialogue between the Orthodox churches and the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats in the European Parliament].
JGP news - Talent on Demand (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Community Service Volunteers (CSV) has called on British MPs to back plans for a European year of volunteering, it has emerged.The charity has urged the 78 UK members of the European parliament to support dedicating 2011 to those working in the voluntary sector.
EPP ED (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
T he 2nd Regional Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament took place on 24 July 2008 in Kiev, Ukraine with the support of the Kiev office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. The meeting brought together religious and political representatives from Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Romania and Poland, as well as MEPs from the EPP-ED Group in the European...
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
For some time it has been known that Sir Reg Empey has an interest in aligning the Ulster Unionist Party more closely with David Cameron’s Conservatives. At the UUP’s AGM the leader’s speech committed the party to working closely with the Tories in the European Parliament. Empey’s instinct looks set to crystallise into a more concrete arrangement with the two party leaders releasing a joint statement...
Euractive (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Arranging a second popular vote on the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland ahead of the European Parliament elections in June 2009 will be difficult, according to French State Secretary for EU Affairs Jean-Pierre Jouyet, speaking during an interview with EurActiv France on the occasion of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to Ireland on 21 July.
Groupe socialiste (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
London Labour MEP, Robert Evans is leading a delegation to Sri Lanka this week as part of his work as Chair of the European Parliament's Delegation to South Asia to discuss various issues with the hope of re-starting the peace process. Leading a multi-party group of Euro MPs, Robert Evans will be meeting the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and various Government Ministers to discuss the stalled...
EPP ED (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
J oseph Daul, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, assesses the European Commission's reports on Bulgaria as 'extremely alarming for all EU Member States'. The Commission concluded that no substantial progress had been made in the fight against organised crime and corruption 18 months after Bulgaria joined the EU. Furthermore, the Commission has suspended significant funds for...
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
A member of the European Parliament, German politician Silvana Koch-Mehrin would like to see a decentralized Europe that puts its citizens first, she writes in an exclusive essay for DW-WORLD.DE.
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Source: [b]Humane Society International[/b] In 2006, Swedish Green MEP Carl Schlyter observed the Canadian commercial seal hunt with Humane Society International. Shortly thereafter, he sponsored a Written Declaration in the European Parliament, calling for an EU ban on the sale of seal fur pelt...
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patrickguillard | 04/11/2008
The European Parliament adopts recommandations in a resolution on combating cancer in an enlarged European Union.
