Tag: European Parliament

• Monday, May 13th 2013 - 04:45 UTC

  Falklands: MPs blast Spanish MEP for comments on the Islands sovereignty

  

  A senior British member of Parliament blasted as ‘outrageous’ claims that the European Parliament does not recognize British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. The case first surfaced when MercoPress reported that a Spanish member of the European parliament on a recent visit to Argentina said that “British sovereignty over the Islands as such is not accepted”.

• Wednesday, April 24th 2013 - 06:14 UTC

  Eight years late Cuba’s Ladies in White collect the Sakharov Prize

  

  Members of the Cuban dissident group Ladies in White collected Tuesday the Sakharov Prize that the European Parliament awarded them in 2005, and in the process had harsh words to say about the situation in their homeland.

• Wednesday, February 27th 2013 - 01:22 UTC

  Fish discard clash in Brussels; NE Atlantic has highest discard rate, says UN

  

  Europe's fisheries ministers may dilute plans for a total ban on the practice of discarding fish at sea, as they meet in Brussels. An outright discards ban was widely welcomed when backed by the European Parliament last month, but it is being resisted by France, Spain and others.

• Saturday, February 9th 2013 - 09:01 UTC

  EU agreement on multi-annual budget with a 3.3% reduction for the time

  

  After lengthy talks in Brussels European leaders have reached an agreement on the budget for 2014-20 with a ceiling of 960 billion Euros, the first time the EU multi-annual budget has been reduced.

• Tuesday, February 5th 2013 - 17:03 UTC

  France insists Euro is too strong; fears it could undermine exports

  

  French President François Hollande called on the Euro zone on Tuesday to develop an exchange rate policy to help protect the common currency from “irrational movements”. His comments came amid growing concern that the Euro, now trading around 1.35 to the US dollar, is too strong and could undermine the country’s exporters and hence wider economic growth.

• Monday, November 26th 2012 - 22:11 UTC

  “Milk bath” for European Parliament as farmers protest low prices

  

  Dairy farmers sprayed thousands of litres of fresh milk at the European Parliament in Brussels on Monday in protest at what they say are excessive milk quotas and prices below the cost of production.

• Wednesday, October 31st 2012 - 20:12 UTC

  Mercosur members, except Paraguay, de-listed from EU import preference scheme

  

  The European Union issued on Wednesday its revised import preference scheme - known as the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) - for developing countries most in need which will take effect from 1 January 2014, revealing that all Mercosur full members, except for Paraguay, will no longer benefit.

• Wednesday, July 25th 2012 - 19:33 UTC

  EC says manipulation of financial “benchmarks” to become “criminal offence”

  

  The European Commission has adopted amendments to the proposed Regulation and Directive on insider dealing and market manipulation, following the recent LIBOR and EURIBOR scandals.

• Monday, July 23rd 2012 - 04:06 UTC

  EU parliament president warns economic crisis could spark “social explosion”

  

  European Parliament president Martin Schulz warned this weekend that Spain's economic crisis could spark a “social explosion” across the continent.

• Monday, July 16th 2012 - 07:05 UTC

  European Parliament begins fact-finding mission in Paraguay

  

  A delegation from the European parliament begins this Monday an in-situ data collecting mission in Paraguay following the situation triggered a month ago when then President Fernando Lugo was impeached and removed from office, but which has caused the new regime a certain freezing of international links.