Members of European Parliament requested an immediate international diplomatic action to stop Turkish offensive in Afrin, they have addressed their pledge to the European diplomacy and NATO. MEPs reminded Turkish government about its obligations in the frame of international law, and pointed that Ankara not only abuses human rights at home, but now launched a…
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MEPs considering vacant UK seats
The European Parliament began to consider British seats that will be left empty post-Brexit from 2019 with Spain, France, Italy and the Netherlands scooping up most initially. (Image: illustration). Those who want to distribute EP seats after #Brexit make the "fair representation" point f MS w/increased population but those w/ declining population shouldn't lose any…
Zaharieva optimistic over Western Balkans EU membership
Today MEPs had an exchange of views with Ekaterina Zaharieva, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria, at the hearing of the Committee of Foreign Affairs (AFET). The issue of Western Balkans has evoked keen attention of MEPs, both for its paramount importance for the EU, but also for its special place for…
French prisons cells as hotel rooms?
This week announcement of the minister of justice Nicole Belloubet of telephone installations in each of the 50,000 cells in the 178 prisons in France, in a bid to slash the growing use of forbidden mobile phones and internet-connected smartphones, raises indignation among politicians. (Image: illustration) “Do you find it is normal, that when you rape, when…
Farage collects questions ahead of meeting with Barnier
One of the leading figures in Brexit campaign, the UK Member of the European Parliament, Nigel Farage will meet the European Union’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier on Monday, January 8, in what he said was an attempt to convey the views of 17.4 million Britons who voted to leave the EU. Farage said in a…
Whistleblower protection in EU
EU rules are needed to better protect and support whistleblowers and their role in revealing serious breaches of the public interest, such as corruption, miscarriages of justice, tax avoidance, lack of protection for food safety or the environment and attacks on social, human or workers’ rights, say MEPs during Strasbourg Plenary debate. The issue came…
Davis requests UK Liberal MEP reprimand
The ALDE Group in the European Parliament has expressed its deep concern at the emergence of a letter from the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, David Davis, to the leader of the UK Liberal Democrats Vince Cable. Outrageous witch-hunt of British MEPs for standing up for the rights of UK…
Europarliament split on #Catalonia independence
Anna van Densky, Strasbourg. The hearing on #Catalonia, October 4, could not be qualified as ‘debate’ in a proper sense of this word: the leaders of the European Parliament political groups, and 1st vice-president of the European Commission, articulated their positions vis-à-vis dramatic events, without an opportunity to debate it with fellow MEPs. However even…
EU27-UK Brexit talks declared in stalemate
The European Parliament passed a non-binding motion during plenary session in Strasbourg on Tuesday, September 3, calling on EU leaders to postpone its assessment at a summit on October 19-20 if there is no major breakthrough in Brexit talks. https://twitter.com/WestmonsterUK/status/915132386261774337 The government leaders of the EU 27 member states should postpone their assessment of Brexit…
MEPs condemn ‘Azerbaijan’s Laundromat’
The recent ‘Azerbaijani Laundromat’ revelations should be investigated and the ‘Magnitsky’ sanctions list adopted by the EU, urged MEPs during September Plenary in Strasbourg. The Azerbaijani #Laundromat explained. Full story here: https://t.co/hWCYXjQaoB pic.twitter.com/F5VCXxsYd9 — Transparency International (@anticorruption) September 6, 2017 “With Lux Leaks, Panama Leaks, Russia and Azerbaijan Laundromats, we realise that corruption stretches far…
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