European Parliament greenlights EU’s long-term budget
After months of complex negotiations, Parliament gave its blessing to the EU’s long-term budget for 2014-2020 on Tuesday. All the conditions set out…
Budgets Committee approves EU’s 2014-2020 budget
by Ralph T. Niemeyer Parliament’s Budgets Committee today approved the EU’s long-term budget (Multi-annual Financial Framework – MFF) for 2014-2020 and the deal struck…
Germany’s Euro-Apartheid
Will “Occupy Deutsche Bank” celebrate an even bigger comeback?! by Ralph T. Niemeyer During the crisis, Deutsche Bank AG has once again reported…
EP/Council deal on better social rights and conditions
Non-EU seasonal workers will get better working and living conditions, including a minimum wage and proper accommodation, under a draft law agreed by Parliament…
Non-seasonal worker’s rights
Non-EU seasonal workers will get better working and living conditions, including a minimum wage and proper accommodation, under a draft law agreed by Parliament…
Economic and Monetary Committee starts work on rules
Rapporteur for rules on dealing with struggling banks Elisa Ferreira (S&D, PT), backed the key tenets of the Commission’s proposal on Monday, including…
Internal market MEPs tighten up product safety and market surveillance rules
Consumers should be given more information about the goods they buy, including where they were produced and whether they have been properly tested, and…
Women on company boards: go for 40% of non-executive posts by 2020, urge MEPs
By Martha Devon EU-listed companies should aim to ensure, by 2020, that at least 40% of their non-executive board members are women, so…
Could France under Mitterrand pose as Economic Model?
by Ralph T. Niemeyer ‘Could Greece’s next rescue payout go straight into the pockets of London hedge funds?’ asked the International Herald Tribune (IHT)…
Shale gas: new fracking projects must pass environmental test
The European Parliament has proposed that exploration and hydraulic fracturing extraction activities for non-conventional hydrocarbons should be subject to environmental impact studies, in…