Today the foreign affairs committee voted its annual report on Turkey, drafted by S&D MEP Kati Piri, in which European Parliamentarians called on the member states to formally suspend the accession negotiation with Ankara, due to a stark regression in the area of the rule of law and human rights in the country during the last few years. At the same time however, the report expresses the will to keep bridges with the citizens of Turkey and continue to provide support to civil society.
Today the culture and education committee in the European Parliament backed the report drafted by S&D MEP Silvia Costa to strengthen the Creative Europe programme for the period 2021 to 2027.
A new research project has been announced between ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) to quantify the global infrastructure gap, while demonstrating how the skills and perspective of accountants improve outcomes across the entire lifecycle of an infrastructure project.
The culture committee today backed new rules on the financing for the new Erasmus+ Programme. This flagship initiative to unite Europeans deserves proper funding, therefore the S&Ds proposes to triple its financing from €15 billion of the period 2014-2020 to €45 billion in the 2021-2027 period. S&Ds also call for more financial support in particular for adult education and vocational training.
EDAA’s first educational presentation of 2019 is here!
Listen to Dr. Oliver Gray talk about the importance of the International Chamber of Commerce’s marketing and communications code, how it applies to digital advertising and eventually how it affects us all.
S&D MEPs are disappointed that negotiators from the European Commission, Council and Parliament have agreed to new minimum standards on ID cards that would make it mandatory to collect fingerprints and include them on a chip. This was despite a strong European Parliament mandate to make it optional, allowing member states to decide at a national level. Centre-right and conservative political groups (EPP, ALDE and ECR) decided on Tuesday to accept the Council’s position of mandatory fingerprinting.
The European Parliament committee for civil liberties, justice and home affairs, today backed the creation of a €10 billion fund to help member states effectively manage asylum, migration and integration for the period 2021-2027.
S&D Group MEP and Parliament negotiator for the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund Miriam Dalli said: