Friday, 27 January 2012

eu reform treaty
By Valentina Pop BRUSSELS - Besides a treaty on fiscal discipline, EU leaders meeting in Brussels on Monday will also seek to adopt non-binding measures on employment, in discussions amid what is expected to be a paralysing general strike in the EU ...
BRUSSELS Jan 26 (Reuters) - European Union leaders will agree on Monday that the 27-nation bloc must boost growth and employment rates alongside fiscal consolidation to overcome the debt crisis, a draft statement obtained by Reuters showed on Thursday.
As a Member of the European Parliament (EP), I am concerned about the ACTA treaty in the international trade committee (INTA). Please find some information about the procedure of the ACTAtreaty in the EU, especially the EP, below.
Its institutional independence is enshrined in the EU Treaty and it is not answerable to any individual government. Consequently, the ECB Governing Council has functioned as a fully independent political actor, interacting with elected officials during ...