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GIE - Gas Infrastructure Europe

CO2 emissions: Parliament rejects increase to 30% reduction. Salvatore Tatarella MEP

EPP Group in the European Parliament

Reversing the vote of the ENVI Committee, the European Parliament has rejected the Eickhout report, which aimed to raise the threshold for reduction in CO2 emissions to 30% by 2020.

The Greens and other leftist groups voted against the report, after the European Parliament had approved amendments by Salvatore Tatarella, EPP Group Shadow Rapporteur. These amendments included an increase in the threshold reduction to 25%.

MEP backs clearer food labelling

THE GREENS/EUROPEAN FREE ALLIANCE

Jill Evans MEP today hosted a meeting at the European Parliament in Strasbourg for the Women's Institute (WI) to present their campaign for mandatory country of origin labelling to fellow MEPs. The debate was held in advance of a vote on food labelling, due to take place at the plenary session of the European Parliament this week.

Despite the UK government insisting that a voluntary scheme is sufficient, recent research by WI members has revealed that products without appropriate labelling can be found in most supermarkets.

Jill Evans commented:

Agency work continues to display link with unemployment level

World Employment Confederation–Europe

Year on year growth of hours worked by agency workers was +18.1% in April

Brussels 5 July 2011: The agency work industry in Europe grew by +18.1% in April 2011 compared with the same period in 2010. This is the thirteenth month in a row of growth for the sector, which is widely recognised as pre-empting shifts in the employment market at large.

 

MEP Spinelli Group supports Commission in the battle for own resources

ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

In the proposal of the European Commission on the European Multi-annual Financial Framework 2013-2020 more then sixty percent of the Union's budget would consist of own resources. By doing this, the financing of the European Union would go back to the initial way of financing, as worked out by its founding fathers.

Food labelling - industry lobby trounces consumer info. & animal welfare

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

"This is a good deal for industry, not for consumers" Kartika Liotard said after today's vote on new EU food labelling rules agreed between Parliament and Council.

 

WSPA - World Society for the Protection of Animals

EU climate targets Conservative MEPs hijack parliamentary report on EU emissions

THE GREENS/EUROPEAN FREE ALLIANCE

The European Parliament today failed to adopt a report on the EU's climate change policy, after the final report was rejected by a majority of MEPs. The Greens were forced to vote against an originally strong draft, after centre-right amendments aimed at fundamentally weakening the report and previous positions adopted by the European Parliament were passed by a narrow majority. After the vote, Green MEP Bas Eickhout, who had been the draftsman of the draft report, said:

Comments on the European Parliament’s debate on the proposal to “nationalise� cultivation of GM crops

EuropaBio

The European Parliament debate on the cultivation of GM crops highlights how difficult it is to give more power to the Member States to opt-out of planting products whilst preserving a workable science-based decision-making system at an EU level.

 

Otto von Habsburg: EPP Group mourns a true European. Joseph Daul MEP

EPP Group in the European Parliament

Following the death of Otto von Habsburg, the Chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Joseph Daul MEP, said:

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