Verhofstadt calls for fundamental change to EU aid for Egypt
18/06/2013
ALDE Leader, Guy Verhofstadt has called for a fundamental change in the way the EU's financial aid to Egypt is managed following a damning report by the Court of Auditors on the way the EEAS has managed the approximately 1...
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ALDE denounces penny-pinching attitude of Council to Croatian accession
13/06/2013
Although Croatia officially becomes the 28th Member State of the EU on 1st July, the European Parliament's plenary session in Strasbourg, has not been able to adopt today the amending budget of 374 million euros necessary for the...
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EU should show leadership in ensuring press freedom in the world
13/06/2013
Marietje Schaake, MEP (D66, Netherlands) has called for a strategy for press and media freedom to be implemented by the EU in her report on media freedom in the world which was adopted by the European Parliament in Strasbourg...
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Council and Commission accused of delaying essential financial reforms
13/06/2013
Today the European Parliament adopted a resolution criticising the Commission for delays in presenting long awaited legislative proposals in the field of financial services and accusing the Council of wasting time and, in many...
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Verhofstadt criticizes Europe on Turkey
12/06/2013
During an exchange of views with the EU High Representative Catherine Ashton today in Strasbourg, ALDE Leader, Guy Verhofstadt said he was disappointed that the Union has again chosen to be ambivalent in the face of a clear...
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Greece: shutting down all state broadcasters is not a reform
12/06/2013
Yesterday, following a decision of the Greek government, all public TV and radio closed down all broadcasts and around 2500 workers were dismissed as a response to the tough bailout conditions requiring huge cuts in public...
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Transparent: mining and logging sectors
12/06/2013
Large oil, gas, diamond and logging companies will now be obliged to disclose full information about every single project whose payments to the governmental authorities exceed the threshold of 100.000 Euros, following the...
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New Fund for the EU’s poorest citizens
12/06/2013
For the last two years the number of people facing extreme poverty has increased due to the financial crisis. In the EU, one in ten citizens is finding it hard to get enough to eat. 18 million people now have to rely on food aid....
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Fighting youth unemployment
12/06/2013
To effectively tackle the urgent problem of youth unemployment, structural solutions to improve the overall economic governance of the EU are needed. The group of Liberals and Democrats in the European Parliament (ALDE) today...
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Composition of Parliament: pragmatism must prevail in favour of institutional solution
12/06/2013
Liberals and Democrats today rallied around a pragmatic solution which will allow the next Parliament to integrate the new Croatian MEPs without upsetting the overall balance of the Parliament's composition. The European...
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