All individuals need clean water every day. Their basic needs for water are now recognised in the human right that was passed into international law in 2010. This right has precise requirements for states, including the EU. It means that everybody should enjoy access to a minimum quantity of clean water. It also means that this water should be safe, accessible, acceptable, affordable and can be obtained without discrimination.

Vilnius, September 6, 2013

Speaking in Vilnius (Lithuania) at the European Interparliamentary meeting on Security and Defence, GUE/NGL MEP and foreign affairs policy coordinator Willy Meyer called proposed US/France intervention in Syria "a mortal blow to the UN Charter" and called for a "negotiated political solution to the Syrian conflict, without any foreign interference".

The first hearing by the Committee on Civil Liberties and Home Affairs (LIBE) in its Inquiry into the mass electronic surveillance of EU citizens took place today in the European Parliament. The hearing consisted of two sessions. The first focused on an exchange of views with the media that unveiled the facts and the second on the participants of the EU-US expert groups.

The Smart Move Workshop on Passenger Transport Terminals held in Estonia today, stressed the need for bus and coach operators to be given free access to other transport modes’ terminals in order to provide seamless multi-modal sustainable travel services to customers.

"Recent pressures exercised by Russia and the consequences they had on the EU Eastern neighbourhood, i.e. Armenia’s announcement to join the Customs Union, Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili’s statement to consider such an option, the trade war with the Ukraine and numerous threats towards Moldova, are a blatant attempt to put the whole Eastern Partnership project into question.