Rabbi Menachem Margolin, chairman of the European Jewish Association (EJA) this morning (18 January) wrote to Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn asking him to demand that one of his MEPs stand down from speaking at an anti-Israel event in the European Parliament on 22 January. Labour MEP Julie Ward (pictured) would be sharing the stage […]
Secret protocols between prosecutors and the country’s intelligence service, the SRI, were “unconstitutional”, according to a ruling by Romania’s constitutional court, writes Martin Banks. The decision was reached earlier this week and comes just days after Romania assumed the EU presidency, the first time it has found itself at the helm of the EU since […]
The EU should do more to promote democracy, rule of law and fundamental rights across the EU, including through support to civil society organizations. MEPs endorsed on Thursday the position of the Civil Liberties Committee to triple the funds allocated in the long-term EU budget (2021-2027) for the Rights and Values Programme, up to €1.834 […]
Parliament supports updating the European Globalization Adjustment Fund to make it more accessible and better equipped to deal with digitalization and environmental changes. The European Globalization Adjustment Fund is one of the ways the EU is helping to create a more social Europe. Globalisation can cause significant structural changes to world trade, which can lead to […]
The European Social Fund plays a major role in fighting poverty and unemployment in Europe. MEPs wants to upgrade its role so that more people can be helped. Find out how. The European Parliament adopted its position for negotiating updated rules to tackle unemployment and high rates of poverty in the EU, by voting in […]
The EU is working to make Europe a better place to live and work ©AP Images/European Union-EP A wide range of challenges Compared to the rest of the world, Europe has the best levels of social protection and also ranks highly in terms of quality of life and wellbeing. However, it faces a wide range of […]
The European Commission welcomes the vote by the European Parliament to agree its position on InvestEU, the proposed programme to boost private and public investment in Europe in the next long-term EU budget. The vote marks an important step towards the creation of the programme, which will bring together under one roof the EU’s financial instruments […]
The Commission welcomes member states’ commitments on the legal consequences of the Achmea judgement and in particular their commitment to terminate all bilateral investment treaties (BITs) between themselves. As the Commission has consistently stated, and as outlined in its July 2018 Communication on the Protection of intra-EU investment, the dispute settlement mechanisms provided in these treaties as well […]
European Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, welcomes the European Parliament’s strong vote of support for her recommendations to improve the transparency and accountability of EU national governments’ legislative work in Brussels. “The lack of legislative transparency in the Council has allowed the ‘blame Brussels’ culture to endure for far too long. I hope today’s vote will help convince […]
The European Commission welcomes the support received from member states to its plan to impose definitive safeguard measures on imports of steel. These measures are intended to shield European steel producers following the trade diversion of steel into the EU market from other producers around the world as a result of the unilateral US measures […]
#Ukraine – Never forget the huge suffering in the centre of Europe
This week at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Charles Tannock MEP hosted a reception to open an exhibition of original photographs entitled “Donbass and Civilians” compiled by the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation, writes James Wilson. The Rinat Akhmetov Foundation is the largest personal charitable initiative in Ukraine. The reception was attended by more than 30 MEPs […]
EU Jewish chief challenges #Corbyn commitment to fight #AntiSemitism
Rabbi Menachem Margolin, chairman of the European Jewish Association (EJA) this morning (18 January) wrote to Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn asking him to demand that one of his MEPs stand down from speaking at an anti-Israel event in the European Parliament on 22 January. Labour MEP Julie Ward (pictured) would be sharing the stage […]
Secret protocols between prosecutors and the country’s intelligence service, the SRI, were “unconstitutional”, according to a ruling by Romania’s constitutional court, writes Martin Banks. The decision was reached earlier this week and comes just days after Romania assumed the EU presidency, the first time it has found itself at the helm of the EU since […]
Promoting #RuleOfLaw and #FundamentalRights in EU
The EU should do more to promote democracy, rule of law and fundamental rights across the EU, including through support to civil society organizations. MEPs endorsed on Thursday the position of the Civil Liberties Committee to triple the funds allocated in the long-term EU budget (2021-2027) for the Rights and Values Programme, up to €1.834 […]
#EuropeanGlobalizationAdjustmentFund – Helping redundant workers
Parliament supports updating the European Globalization Adjustment Fund to make it more accessible and better equipped to deal with digitalization and environmental changes. The European Globalization Adjustment Fund is one of the ways the EU is helping to create a more social Europe. Globalisation can cause significant structural changes to world trade, which can lead to […]
#EuropeanSocialFund – Fighting poverty and unemployment
The European Social Fund plays a major role in fighting poverty and unemployment in Europe. MEPs wants to upgrade its role so that more people can be helped. Find out how. The European Parliament adopted its position for negotiating updated rules to tackle unemployment and high rates of poverty in the EU, by voting in […]
#SocialEurope – What Parliament is doing on social policies
The EU is working to make Europe a better place to live and work ©AP Images/European Union-EP A wide range of challenges Compared to the rest of the world, Europe has the best levels of social protection and also ranks highly in terms of quality of life and wellbeing. However, it faces a wide range of […]
#JunckerPlan – Commission welcomes European Parliament’s position on InvestEU
The European Commission welcomes the vote by the European Parliament to agree its position on InvestEU, the proposed programme to boost private and public investment in Europe in the next long-term EU budget. The vote marks an important step towards the creation of the programme, which will bring together under one roof the EU’s financial instruments […]
The Commission welcomes member states’ commitments on the legal consequences of the Achmea judgement and in particular their commitment to terminate all bilateral investment treaties (BITs) between themselves. As the Commission has consistently stated, and as outlined in its July 2018 Communication on the Protection of intra-EU investment, the dispute settlement mechanisms provided in these treaties as well […]
#Ombudsman calls for ‘blame Brussels’ culture to end
European Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, welcomes the European Parliament’s strong vote of support for her recommendations to improve the transparency and accountability of EU national governments’ legislative work in Brussels. “The lack of legislative transparency in the Council has allowed the ‘blame Brussels’ culture to endure for far too long. I hope today’s vote will help convince […]
European Commission set to adopt definitive safeguard measures on imports on #Steel
The European Commission welcomes the support received from member states to its plan to impose definitive safeguard measures on imports of steel. These measures are intended to shield European steel producers following the trade diversion of steel into the EU market from other producers around the world as a result of the unilateral US measures […]
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