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September 2008 (2nd Sitting)
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| “Strasbourg….” in Brussels - again! The second of the week-long plenary sessions scheduled for September once again took place in Brussels as repair work to the debating chamber roof in ... |
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September 2008
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| “Strasbourg….” in Brussels! After the summer recess, MEPs were raring to go this month, not least because, for many of them, it was as if Christmas had come early this year. Part... |
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July 2008
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| French Presidency This month France took over the Presidency of the European Union and to mark the occasion, Nicolas Sarkozy came to Strasbourg to outline his vision for Europe over the ne... |
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June 2008
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| What next for the Lisbon Treaty? The repercussions of the Irish "no" vote in their referendum on the Lisbon Treaty reverberated around the corridors of Strasbourg this month. As EU heads of gove... |
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May 2008
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| New deal for Agency workers Labour MEPs were celebrating in Strasbourg this month after hearing that the government had finally reached an agreement with the trades unions and the CBI on n... |
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April 2008
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| MEPs’ Expenses MEPs missed a “golden opportunity” this month to “come clean” on their expenses and end years of damaging media stories on how they spend taxpayers’ money. T... |
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March 2008
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| More jobs for EU citizens The heads of both the European Council and Commission travelled to Strasbourg this month, ahead of the annual Spring Summit. They told MEPs that the summit... |
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February 2008
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| Prince Charles' climate change speech The "Doomsday clock of climate change is ticking", according to Prince Charles in a speech to the European Parliament this month. He said th... |
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January 2008
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| “Peace is holy” 2008 is the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue and to mark its launch, the Gr... |
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December 2007
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| MEPs arrived in Strasbourg for the final plenary session of the year, still digesting the news that Gary Titley plans to stand down from the Parliament at the next European Elections in June 2009... |
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November 2007
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| Curbing aviation emissions The EU upped its efforts to combat climate change this month when MEPs voted to cap carbon emissions produced by aircraft. Under the EU’s ‘Emissions T... |
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October 2007
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| One of the big talking points in Strasbourg this month was the new Reform Treaty that EU heads of government had agreed in Lisbon a week earlier. Echoing the verdict of Prime Minister Gordon Brow... |
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September 2007 Second Session
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| While it was business as normal at the European Parliament‘s second Strasbourg plenary session of the month, Gary Titley was taking Labour’s European message to the party’s Annual Conferenc... |
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September First Session
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| MEPs returned to work in Strasbourg this month, following the summer recess, amid a growing clamour from eurosceptics in the UK for a referendum on the new EU Reform Treaty. Updating what i... |
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July 2007
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| This month the EU Presidency passed from Germany to Portugal. Addressing the Parliament, the Portuguese Prime Minister, Jose Socrates, outlined his country’s work programme for the next 6... |
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June 2007
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| An end to cat and dog fur trade Over 2 million dogs and cats are slaughtered each year for their furs and skins, mostly in China and other South East Asian countries. Many of these produ... |
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May 2007
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| A few days before MEPs headed down to Strasbourg for the May plenary session, the process for electing a new Leader and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party got underway. No sooner had nominat... |
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April 2007
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| A major breakthrough occurred in Strasbourg this month, when MEPs backed a new EU-wide licensing system for treatments which may eventually help beat killer diseases like cancer and Pa... |
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March 2007
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| Just before MEPs headed down to Strasbourg, EU leaders met in Brussels for their annual spring summit. Top of the agenda this time around was climate change and energy policy. The two... |
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February 2007
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| Gary Titley has fired off a letter to the newly elected President of the European Parliament, urging him to make energy, climate change and migration his top priorities. Hans Gert... |
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