Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Avril Doyle" produced 27 items.
| 1. The last man standing | July 14, 2011 |
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Gay Mitchell wins battle to be Fine Gael presidential candidate. The battle between MEPs and ex-MEPs to become the candidate of the centre-right in Ireland's forthcoming... | |
| 2. Doyle's badly kept secret | January 15, 2009 |
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All bets are off on the Parliamentary future of Ireland's horse-loving MEP. Irish MEP Avril Doyle described her decision not to seek re-election to the European Parliament... | |
| 3. Parliament expected to back climate-change deal | December 15, 2008 |
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MEPs agree to leave intact EU leaders' agreement on the climate and energy package, following discussions over the weekend. The European Parliament will vote this week (17... | |
| 4. MEPs flock to Poznań meeting | November 27, 2008 |
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The European Parliament will send its largest-ever delegation to a UN climate change conference. In total, 36 MEPs will head to Poznań, of whom 15 will go as the official... | |
| 5. ETS money could be spent on low-carbon technologies | November 20, 2008 |
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Carbon revenues could be used on green projects; MEPs want a binding resolution. EU governments could spend at least half of the money raised from selling pollution permits... | |
| 6. Commission backs MEPs' proposal on clean coal | November 13, 2008 |
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CCS could be funded with ETS money; agreement could speed up building of test-sites. The European Commission has given cautious backing to a European Parliament idea to fund... |
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| 7. MEP casts doubt over climate change deal | October 9, 2008 |
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First-reading agreement in Parliament unlikely; economic crisis 'has changed public priorities'. One of the European Parliament's chief negotiators on the climate package... |
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| 8. Setback for industry on green 'Super Tuesday' | October 7, 2008 |
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European Parliament's environment committee refuses to ease conditions of emissions-trading scheme.
European industries will have to buy permits to pollute under the... | |
| 9. EPP-ED group split over carbon emissions | October 2, 2008 |
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Emergency meeting highlights depth of divisions over demands placed on European industry. The centre-right EPP-ED group in the European Parliament is in disarray over how... | |
| 10. Centre-right MEPs try to delay climate change deal | September 25, 2008 |
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Package's impact on industry and consumers particularly concerns German deputies. German centre-right MEPs are trying to delay negotiations over the EU's proposed climate... | |
| 11. Cleaner air with closed doors? | September 18, 2008 |
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Committed to consulting with all – except Lady Nicotine. Although tobacco is grown in several EU member states, it is three southern countries, Greece, Bulgaria and Italy,... | |
| 12. MEPs split across party lines over ETS | September 11, 2008 |
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Dispute centres on level of support for industry. A battle over treatment of energy-intensive industries is under way as the European Parliament debates how to reform the... | |
| 13. MEP wants pollution permits to pay for forest conservation | June 26, 2008 |
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Rapporteur on emissions trading also wants shipping brought into system. Money raised from selling pollution permits to industry should be used to protect the world's... | |
| 14. France wants importers in emissions trading scheme | June 12, 2008 |
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Paris believes suggestion will help protect EU's competitiveness. France is heavily promoting plans to defend European manufacturers by including importers in the EU's... | |
| 15. Contradictions and principles | May 8, 2008 |
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An all-action PR nightmare. “Contradiction”, contended Blaise Pascal, “is not a sign of falsity”. Avril Doyle might want to adopt this as a personal motto. A life of... |
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| 16. Kicking the carbon habit | March 19, 2008 |
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Avril Doyle hails the extra certainty provided by the proposed revision of the EU's emissions trading rules, while Caroline Lucas argues that Europe needs to be more... |
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| 17. Irish MEP gets emissions trading dossier | March 6, 2008 |
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The European Parliament announced yesterday (5 March) that Avril Doyle, an Irish centre-right MEP, will draft its opinion on the revision of the EU's emissions trading... | |
| 18. Irish politicians sound better in English | January 31, 2008 |
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It emerged last week that during the first year of Irish being an official language of the EU, less than 30 minutes of Irish – or Gaeilge – was spoken in the European... | |
| 19. Snus rouses Parliament passions | October 18, 2007 |
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MEPs are set to increase pressure on the European Commission to consider legalising a smokeless tobacco product known as snus. Parliament will next Tuesday (23 October)... | |
| 20. Alcohol – a measured approach | June 14, 2007 |
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Two MEPs discuss alcohol and health. | |
