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EP strikes balance between animal rights and vital medical research 08/09/10

In adopting a report on the controversial topic of scientific research on animals, MEPs today gave their green light (in 2nd reading) to a compromise package negotiated over many months with Member States to raise the level of protection for animals used in medical and veterinary research.... Video availableRead more

Guy Verhofstadt

Speech by Guy Verhofstadt on the State of the Union, Strasbourg, 7 September 2010 09/09/10

Niccolò Rinaldi MEP

ALDE continues to demand more transparency in the ACTA negotiationsVideo available 08/09/10

EP sends tough message to Iran on human rightsVideo available 08/09/10

Farmers deserve a fairer share of the revenue from the food supply chainVideo available 07/09/10

Women from ethnic minorities suffer double discrimination in EU today 07/09/10

EU - Korea FTA - ALDE warns Council not to force their hand 07/09/10

 
Sophie In't Veld

ALDE: Human rights of LGBT persons don't stop at Member States' borders 07/09/10

"The right to freely choose one's partner in life is the most basic, personal, intimate one and no Member State has the right to deny people who are legitimate partners from enjoying their legal rights as a couple." says Sophie In't Veld (D66, Netherlands), vice president of the Civil liberties Committee, ahead of tonight's debate at the European Parliament on discrimination of same-sex married or in civil-partnership couples. ... Video availableRead more

ALDE: We need a European Policy for Roma Integration 07/09/10

France is profiting from Europe's most vulnerable population (the Roma), by paying €300 per adult, and €100 per child for them to leave the French territory. Thus, the French government, on the pretence that the repatriation is voluntary, has convinced itself that buying off the Roma´s conscience is a humanitarian act.... Video availableRead more