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Services Directive: Potential growth up to 1.5%. EU GDP. Małgorzata Handzlik MEP

EPP Group in the European Parliament

The Services Directive, adopted in 2006, is a crucial step in improving the functioning of the Single Market for services. It covers a large variety of services accounting for 40% of EU GDP and estimates predict that the implementation of the Services Directive has the potential to bring about economic gains of up to €140 billion, representing up to 1.5% growth of the EU GDP.

Refugees - EU must prepare for solidarity beyond Lampedusa

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

The situation in Lampedusa reveals the inadequacy of EU migration policies as well as their dependence on the presence of dictators such as Ben Ali and Gaddafi. Furthermore, the humanitarian situation may soon deteriorate beyond Lampedusa as a series of countries from Morocco to Syria may each present a humanitarian risk.

 

We all want these revolutions to go well, if not the EU could be faced with its most serious humanitarian crisis, akin to the 1956 Hungarian crisis that prompted the creation of the UNHCR.

 

Accounting for carbon in the EU-ETS: hot air or real value?

ACCA

A multi stakeholder roundtable held recently in the European Parliament concluded that the success of the EU-Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) depends on accountants, large emitters and standard setters all working together towards harmonising carbon accounting practices.

The discussion also revealed that a long term framework is needed urgently to deal with disparities between how emissions allowances are treated.

Immigration Emergency: Extraordinary European Council must deal with emergency in the Mediterranean. Mario Mauro MEP

EPP Group in the European Parliament

"It is absolutely essential to convene an extraordinary Council of EU Heads of State and Government in the next few days to deal with an epic emergency comparable in intensity and scale to the fall of the Soviet Bloc in 1989", said Mario Mauro MEP, Head of the Italian Delegation (PDL) of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, explaining the content of a letter he sent today to the European Council President, Herman Van Rompuy, to the European Commission President, José Manuel Barroso, and the European Parliament President, Jerzy Buzek.

World Social Forum an unqualified success, say GUE/NGL MEPs

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

A delegation of eight Members from the European Parliament’s GUE/NGL Group - Ilda Figueiredo, Vice-President of GUE/NGL, Thomas Händel, Sabine Lösing, Willy Meyer, Alfreds Rubiks, Helmut Scholz, Søren Søndergard and Gabi Zimmer - as well as eight guests from social movements and associations from various countries, invited by GUE/NGL, participated in the work of the World Social Forum in Dakar, February 6 - 11, 2011.

 

CEEP: Annual Growth Survey an improvement, but policies must be balanced

CEEP - European Centre of Employers and Enterprises providing public services

CEEP at MEDPOL

This was the key message that Carl Cederschiöld, President of CEEP, presented at the Macroeconomic Dialogue meeting with the European social partners today in Brussels.

Immigrés clandestins: l'Europe doit aider l'Italie. Joseph Daul, MdPE, Président du Groupe PPE et Mario Mauro, MdPE

EPP Group in the European Parliament

Le Président du Groupe PPE et le Chef de la Délégation italienne du PDL soutiennent la demande d'aide de l'Italie à l'Union européenne pour affronter une vague sans précédent d'immigrés clandestins tunisiens: près de 1.000 personnes arrivées à Lampedusa depuis 24 heures.

 

"Faute de quoi, le risque d'une crise humanitaire serait élevé", a averti Joseph Daul.

 

Egypt: Departure of Mubarak - beginning of a peaceful transition. Joseph Daul MEP, Chairman of the EPP Group and Ioannis Kasoulides MEP

EPP Group in the European Parliament

"The departure of Hosni Mubarak is the beginning of the peaceful transition of Egypt towards pluralistic democracy, good governance and human rights responding to the aspirations of the Egyptian people.

 

The Egyptians have now the responsibility to build a peaceful, stable and democratic country and the EU must act in solidarity with them by all possible means", declared Joseph Daul MEP, Chairman of the EPP Group and Ioannis Kasoulides MEP, Vice-Chairman of the EPP Group responsible for Foreign Affairs.

 

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ALDE Senior MEP in Cairo to assess situation at first hand

ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

Edward McMillan-Scott (LibDem, UK), Vice-President of the European Parliament responsible for democracy and founder of the European Union’s €160m democracy and human rights instrument, is currently inEgypt’s capital Cairo to assess the situation at first hand.





At a joint press conference with Dr Ayman Nour, leader of the El Ghad liberal party, Edward McMillan-Scott said:



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