Today @ 09:24 CET In a surprise vote, deputies in the European Parliament's environment committee have put car manufacturers on the back foot, not only endorsing European Commission proposals for restricting carbon dioxide emissions from cars by 2012, but also proposing a second, deeper target for reductions by 2020. Today @ 09:31 CET The European Parliament's delegation to the US will on its next trans-Atlantic visit ask Congress about allegations that the Irish anti-Lisbon Treaty campaign was funded out of America. Today @ 09:30 CET Both France and Germany on Thursday said the current financial crisis would leave important marks on the world economy, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy declaring that the under-regulated system we once knew is now "finished," and German finance minister Peer Steinbruck saying the crisis marks the beginning of a multi-polar world, where the US is no longer a superpower. Today @ 10:06 CET Austria is having a bout of deja-vu, as the far right may win enough votes to become a junior coalition member in the country's national elections on Sunday. Austria will also be the first EU country where teenagers over 16 will cast their ballots. 25.09.2008 @ 18:07 CET EU interior ministers have formally backed the European Pact on Immigration and Asylum, a French-drafted plan on how the 27-nation bloc should cope with migratory flows. In addition, they "more or less" agreed on the idea of an EU work permit, or 'Blue Card' but the Czech Republic insists all European labour markets must first open to eastern Europeans. 25.09.2008 @ 17:43 CET The European Commission recommended on Thursday that the block's justice and home affairs ministers open negotiations on visa facilitating procedures for Georgians, who currently face tougher travel conditions than Russians. 25.09.2008 @ 17:47 CET The European Commission on Thursday proposed a ban on baby food products coming from China and containing milk, following a scandal with milk products that made hundreds of babies ill in the Asian country. 25.09.2008 @ 17:44 CET A group of mostly left-leaning Nordic MEPs have in a letter urged the European Parliament to only patronise Strasbourg hotels that pledge not to tolerate use of prostitutes, with one French NGO swiftly welcoming the "symbolic gesture." 25.09.2008 @ 18:09 CET Calls for Europe to initiate a process clarifying the legal status of bloggers - a discourse many across Europe had erroneously believed was in fact EU legislation that would have seen a European 'registry of bloggers' - died on the floor of the European Parliament on Thursday. 25.09.2008 @ 09:25 CET There may be need for stricter financial monitoring worldwide, but in Europe in particular, US-style bank bailouts are not necessary at this stage, EU officials told MEPs on Wednesday. 25.09.2008 @ 10:05 CET Azerbaijan is sticking to plans to reduce oil exports to the EU and increase shipments to Russia and Iran, as the South Caucasus country - home to another Russia-influenced frozen conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh - seeks to spread risk. 25.09.2008 @ 09:25 CET All cars in the EU will have to be equipped with headlights and rear-end lighting that shine in the daytime as of 7 February 2011, the European Commission said on Wednesday, with trucks and buses to follow by August 2012. Aiming to increase road safety, the commission's plan has however already drawn some criticism.
MEPs stick with strong line on CO2 emissions from cars
MEPs to ask Congress about US funding for Irish No vote
'Laissez-faire' capitalism is 'finished,' says France
Austria's far right set for a comeback in Sunday's elections
EU ministers flesh out foreign worker 'Blue Card' plan
EU moves towards visa facilitation for Georgians
EU to ban Chinese milk imports
MEPs urge Strasbourg sex trade pledge
MEPs kill EU 'blogger registry' that never was
EU rules out US-style bailouts
Azerbaijan diverts EU oil to Russia and Iran
EU cars to use daytime headlights from 2011
Friday, 26 September 2008
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