Europe needs more transparency and choice in its energy market
Adina Valean (PNL, Romania), ALDE spokesperson on energy security in the European Union spoke up for transparency, choice and competition in Europe's still protected energy market in order to improve the security of supply and...
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Reforming the CAP for a new, greener Europe
George Lyon (Liberal Democrat, UK), ALDE Spokesman on Agriculture and author of Parliament's report on reforming the Common Agricultural Policy, has called for decisive reform and realignment of the CAP after 2013 to address the...
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ITRE Committee votes for better patient information
Today, the EP's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy voted in favor of a report that aims to improve information on prescription drugs in the European Union.
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Forward Step for European Energy Policy: Affordable, Sustainable and Secure
Adina-Ioana Vălean MEP (Romania, PNL) has hailed today's European Parliament's vote in favour of enabling the European Commission to gather energy infrastructure information that will help shape future European energy...
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Post-Copenhagen: EU needs leading strategy
ALDE MEPs Corinne Lepage (MoDem, France) and Chris Davies (Liberal Democrat, UK) have called on the EU to be bolder in its strategy to help forge a legally binding global deal on carbon emission cuts in the wake of the failed...
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Patient information: understanding the drugs we take
Liberal proposals about how to improve information on prescription drugs have passed an important reality check yesterday afternoon in a seminar at the European Parliament.
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Copenhagen: EU must act now
Lena Ek MEP (Sweden, Centre Party) ALDE Spokesperson on Industry, Research and Energy and ALDE Environment Spokesman Chris Davies MEP (UK, Liberal Democrats) have returned from the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference and urged...
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Verhofstadt outlines dedicated plan for European construction industry
Today in Strasbourg in a speech to the Federation of the European Construction Industry, Guy Verhofstadt will argue that the health of the construction industry is vital to the health of the wider European economy.
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Zero energy buildings Crucial for Copenhagen - Hall, Ek
ALDE MEPs Fiona Hall (Liberal Democrat, UK) and Lena Ek (Centre Party, Sweden) have hailed an agreement on improving the energy efficiency of buildings as vital for allowing the EU to play its full role at December's Copenhagen...
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Lithuanian Parliament recommends government to endorse Verhofstadt's recovery plan
After a meeting of Guy Verhofstadt, president of the ALDE Group, with the members of the Committee on European Affairs of the Lithuanian Parliament, the president of the Committee, Ceslovas Vytautas Stankevicius, stated that he...
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