The European Environment Agency (EEA) has presented its trend report on climate and energy targets in Europe. Jutta Paulus, Green member of the Environment Committee and deputy member of the Industry, Research and Energy Committee, said one positive aspect is that already in 2019, emissions were lowered by four percent compared to the previous year….
Hungarian MEP József Szàjer (59) has resigned after attending a sex party in Brussels. He was apprehended by the Brussels police after shinning down a drainpipe to escape from the party, at which the participants had flagrantly violated Belgium’s lockdown measures. There were about twenty persons present, two of whom claimed diplomatic immunity. Immunity from…
MEPs have condemned the setback to women’s sexual and reproductive rights in Poland and stress the EU’s legal obligation to uphold and protect them. In a resolution adopted with 455 votes to 145 and 71 abstentions, Parliament says that the ruling of 22 October by Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal to make abortion illegal in cases involving…
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution on the new Industrial Strategy. It calls for the new industrial strategy – planned for publication in March next year – to be in line with the goal of climate neutrality by 2050 and to create the conditions for an innovative, inclusive, resilient, digitalised society. In the context…
On 1-2 December a new generation of over 200 hundred activists, scholars and policymakers will be gathering online to debate the current state and future of EU citizenship, by responding to 6 panels: What is the Current State and Outlook for European Citizenship? How to Strengthen the Enforcement of European Rights, Values and the Rule of Law? Putting European…
There will be a European Tax Observatory headed by the renowned progressive tax economist Gabriel Zucman. This will implement an idea of the European Greens, which they launched in October 2019 together with Social Democrats and Liberals in the European Parliament. German Greens MEP Sven Giegold told this website,”That is great news. Because just like…
The European Commission is about to incentivise one of the main threats to the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, by eliminating taxes on the import of lobster from the east coast of the US. Entanglements in vertical lines connecting buoys to lobster traps on the ocean floor in east coast fisheries are the leading…
The virtual event “Recognizing the Past, Repairing the Present, Building the Future” organized on 2 December 2020, which is open to the public, features a diverse mix of speakers, discussion panels and a screening of two episodes of the newly released documentary series “Enslaved” (2020), starring actor Samuel L. Jackson and British journalist Afua Hirsch. The speakers of…
A number of influential members of the European Parliament, representing the major political groups, have appealed to the High Representative, Joseph Borell, in support of the Kingdom of Morocco in its efforts to guarantee the free passage of goods and people in the demilitarised zone of Guerguerat, writes Gary Cartwright. European parliamentarians belonging to the…
The European Parliament has voted to make development aid conditional on cooperation with the EU on migration management. This is a notable shift in the approach to development policy showing that the majorities in Parliament have changed. The EPP Group has been calling for such a conditionality for years. “We need to make better use…
