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Rankings compiled by Italian MEP highlight bad record of his compatiots. In the run-up to the European Parliament elections, Marco Cappato, an Italian Liberal MEP, has rated...

The European Parliament makes a concession to transparency. As part of his own-initiative report on the rules governing access to documents, Marco Cappato, an Italian...

The transparency challenge finds two Don Quixotes? Michael Cashman, a UK Socialist MEP, and Marco Cappato, an Italian Liberal MEP, do not have much in common, but both bear...

MEPs will soon be able to discover for themselves just how revealing bodyscanners are. Members of the European Parliament worked themselves into a lather of indignation in...

Four (angry) men in a bus. The Parliament is lining up a strange mix of MEPs to check up on the Italian government's Roma policy, but will they be able to agree on...

Things might seem a little more chilled out (man) than usual at the Parliament's plenary session in Strasbourg next week (18-21 February). Marco Cappato, the Italian Liberal...

Danish citizen Morten Kjærum is expected to be appointed the first head of the EU's new Fundamental Rights Agency, after being interviewed by MEPs and member state...

The election of Romano Prodi as Italian prime minister has prompted an exodus of Italian MEPs returning to jobs in Rome. The most high-profile (in EU politics) is Emma...

So Malta's loss is Italy's gain: Albert Cassola, the secretary-general of the European Green Party, broke his losing habit and was elected to the Italian lower house, the...

The men and women who make their mark on the agenda of the EU do not often receive praise. But European Voice has chosen to celebrate their efforts, creating a night to...

SMART new radio technology that could make it easier for companies to keep track of their lost stock – and allow citizens to get more information about the goods and...

ROCCO Buttiglione has been called the Pope's “intellectual alter ego”. The incoming European commissioner for justice, security and freedom enjoys such a close...

EU JUSTICE ministers will be urged to clamp down on the trade in cannabis, amid rising concern about the medical effects of the ‘soft' drug. A working party of the Council...

A POPULAR face has absented itself from Italian kitchens and living rooms. Whether elegantly dressed as anchorwoman on the evening news or reporting against a backdrop of...

MEPs were doubtless looking forward to a weeklong special exhibition on the many (legal!) uses of hemp when they descend upon the European Parliament building in Strasbourg...

ITALIAN Radical MEP Marco Cappato has told of the “honour and pride” of being named European of the Year in last year's EV50 poll. Cappato, a well-known civil rights...

ITALIAN MEP Marco Cappato has called on the European Commission to exert its diplomatic power after Chinese authorities raided and closed hundred of ‘cybercafés' in...

ITALIAN Radical MEP Marco Cappato, a trenchant critic of the effect the international drive against terrorism is having on civil liberties, celebrates after being named...

“DEMOCRACY means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”Oscar Wilde's remarks – the staple diet of after-dinner speakers – were usually...

SEX and drugs and rock ‘n' roll. No, not something you'd normally associate with a person who has been likened by some to a modern-day Mahatma Gandhi.