Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "UK MEP" produced 70 items.
| 1. Counting the cost of overseas trips | February 8, 2012 |
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Are journeys abroad by delegations of MEPs worth the expense? The European Parliament's budgetary control committee is looking at ways to cut the costs of such travel and... |
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| 2. Wallis's resignation leads to row over replacements | January 26, 2012 |
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Liberal MEP could be replaced by her husband amid concern that move will hurt Parliament's image. The announcement by Diana Wallis, a UK Liberal MEP, that she intends to step... |
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| 3. Schulz triumphs – and threatens member states | January 19, 2012 |
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New president vows to push for deeper integration.
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MEPs fail to win hearts and minds... |
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| 4. Wallis launches surprise bid for presidency of Parliament | December 1, 2011 |
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Liberal MEP challenges Schulz's bid for top job, but ALDE group has so far refused to back candidacy. Diana Wallis, a British Liberal MEP, announced yesterday (30 November)... |
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| 5. MEPs aim to put the emphasis on citizens and businesses | November 24, 2011 |
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Chairman of the Parliament's internal market and consumer protection committee on how the single market should progress. The idea of a Single Market Act as a way of closing... |
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| 6. Commission targets rating agencies | November 15, 2011 |
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Call to suspend credit ratings of countries in crisis removed from the Commission's proposals to regulate rating agencies. The European Commission today dropped a plan to... | |
| 7. Committees divided on offshore drilling | June 9, 2011 |
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One committee want to widen current scope of environmental liability rules; another will caution against more regulation. The European Parliament's environment committee... |
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| 8. ECR overtakes Greens/EFA | June 1, 2011 |
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ECR group becomes Parliament's fourth-largets group. The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group is poised to become the fourth largest political group in the... | |
| 9. UK MEP changes allegiance | May 24, 2011 |
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David Bannerman moves from UK Independence Party to Conservatives. David Bannerman, a UK Independence Party MEP, has joined the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)... | |
| 10. MEPs to back polluter-pays rules for offshore accidents | May 12, 2011 |
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Parliament's environment committee to debate revision of the EU's 2004 environmental liability directive. MEPs are expected to call for tough EU rules on liability for... | |
| 11. MEPs seek EU seat at United Nations | May 5, 2011 |
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Parliament to discuss defence and security, while MEPs argue that Better co-operation is ‘a necessity'. MEPs are expected to issue a call for an EU seat on the United... |
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| 12. Cutting hedge funds down to size | March 11, 2010 |
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Proposed legislation to regulate funds is causing concern in the financial services sector. Hedge fund and private equity bosses will be following a meeting of the EU's... |
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| 13. Cutting hedge funds down to size | March 11, 2010 |
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Proposed legislation to regulate funds is causing concern in the financial services sector. Hedge fund and private equity bosses will be following a meeting of the EU's... |
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| 14. Farage refuses to apologise to Van Rompuy | March 2, 2010 |
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UK MEP could be suspended over personal attack on European Council president. Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party MEPs, has refused to issue a... |
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| 15. Potočnik enjoys cosy hearing | January 13, 2010 |
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Slovenia's once (and future?) European commissioner commands the podium in parliamentary hearings. Janez Potočnik is a keen volleyball player. He is also pretty good at... |
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| 16. MEPs voice support for Van Rompuy and Ashton | November 20, 2009 |
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Parliament president says he believe Van Rompuy will fulfil role of co-ordinator. Political groups in the European Parliament have given a broad but restrained welcome to... |
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| 17. Council's attitude to lobbying attacked | September 10, 2009 |
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Commissioner says EU's reputation is suffering, but Council wants to ‘wait and see' how register develops. The European Parliament and European Commission have criticised... | |
| 18. New-look Parliament carves up the top jobs | July 23, 2009 |
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Liberals take control of two financial committees and Germans to lead legislative committees. Members of the new European Parliament went into their first plenary meeting... |
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| 19. McMillan-Scott stands for EP vice-president | July 14, 2009 |
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UK MEP hopes to get enough support to be named one of the 14 vice-presidents. UK Conservative MEP Edward McMillan-Scott is standing for election as vice-president of the... | |
| 20. Watson drops bid to become Parliament president | July 8, 2009 |
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UK Liberal MEP Graham Watson says he is withdrawing his candidacy 'in support of a three-party agreement to save the EU'. Graham Watson has announced that he is pulling out... | |
