MEPs at the Environment Committee adopted a resolution in which call for setting up as a high political priority restoring ecosystems after knowing the EU has failed to meet its 2010 biodiversity target. In addition, they also stress that the CAP is not only a tool for food provision and rural development, but also for biodiversity conservation.
03/1/2012
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: Environment Committee, European Parliament
Sweden’s parliament on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted through a European Union-backed law obliging telecom and Internet operators to store data traffic information for at least six months.
02/27/2012
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: data-storage, law, Sweden
EPrivatisation of Britain’s Royal Mail Group moved a step closer after EU regulators approved government plans to take on its deficit-ridden pension scheme.
02/26/2012
— Filed under: Finance,Politics
Tags: EU, pension, Royal Mail
The European Parliament’s influential economic affairs committee on Wednesday overwhelmingly backed a draft proposal for a new capital regime for insurers, including amendments that make the new rules less burdensome for the industry.
02/24/2012
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: capital rules, EU, lawmakers
A vote in the European Parliament’s budgetary control committee on whether to approve the European Union’s accounts for the 2010 financial year is finely balanced, with MEPs seeking assurances from the European Commission that controls on the spending of regional aid will be improved.
02/22/2012
— Filed under: Finance,Politics
Tags: budgetary control, European Parliament
EU The European Commission has launched an investigation into financial arrangements between public authorities and the airports of Charleroi in Belgium, Angoulême in France and Dortmund in Germany to see if they infringed EU state aid rules.
02/21/2012
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: investigation, The European Commission
European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton will begin a tour of the Arctic region on Tuesday for high level talks with leaders of Finland, Sweden and Norway.
02/17/2012
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: Catherine Ashton, EU Foreign Policy Chief
The EU and Kazakhstan must develop partner relationships for solving international problems,» Vice President of the European Parliament Miguel Angel Martinez Martniez said in an interview after the meeting with the Kazakh parliamentary delegation headed by Deputy Chairman of the Majilis, Co-chairman of Parliament Cooperation Committee «Kazakhstan — the European Union» Sergey Dyachenko.
02/16/2012
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: EU, Kazakhstan
Montreal resident and recent McGill University graduate in political science, with a background in political economy. He works in banking as a credit adjudicator.
02/6/2012
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: Greece, monetary policy
The UK is lagging behind other countries such as Lithuania and Sweden in the deployment of super-fast fibre deployment according to the fibre-to-the-home council.
02/2/2012
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: FTTH, UK
