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Uncertainty in the Parliament reflects turf wars among committees. In the article “MEPs struggle over how to deal with public hearings” (2-8 February) you did well to...

The European ombudsman hopes that a new website will make more people aware of his work. In an attempt to make his work more known and of more use to European citizens, P....

Lobbying the EU institutions has become a crowded business and is not as alluring as some people imagine. European Voice talks to Tony Venables, a pioneer of consumers'...

Is German Chancellor Angela Merkel going the wrong way about rescuing the EU's constitutional treaty? A new manifesto by the European Citizen Action Service (Ecas), issued in...

On the brink of the 50th anniversary of the European Union, freedom of movement for workers, one of the founding principles of the EC treaty, seems further away than ever....

In early 2004, as the EU stood on the threshold of the most important enlargement of its 50-year history, you couldn't pick up a mainstream western European newspaper without...

French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy's pledge to expel "without delay" foreigners suspected of threatening public order represents a very real danger for European...

Tony Venables, Director of the European Citizen Action Service, wrote in his letter (European Voice, 7-13 April) that the European Commission should not leave information...

The European Citizen Action Service (ECAS) demanded a “right of citizens to be informed” to be introduced in the EU constitution and working closely with Friends of...

FOUR months after the ‘big bang' enlargement of 1 May, the EU-15's residents have yet to see floods of ‘new' EU citizens taking their jobs. Ireland, the UK and Sweden...

THE Council of Ministers is to reject a move by the EU Ombudsman aimed at lifting the veil of secrecy over how it conducts the bulk of its business. Nikiforos Diamandouros...

Pressure is being brought to bear for the Convention on the future of Europe to define citizens' rights. About time too, says Dick Leonard AT THE heart of the written...

THE EU's statistical office is "ripping off" ordinary Europeans who want to find out more about the Union by making them pay to download much of the data on its website, says...

Racial prejudice I am pleased that European Voice published Del Singh's letter (11-17 April) about his family's appalling treatment on arrival at Disneyland Paris, and his...

MEMBERS of the Convention on Europe's future have been urged to recommend giving the European Parliament more power. This, say participants at a 'mini-convention' of 50...

CONVENTION officials are under fire from a citizens' watchdog after severely limiting the amount of time members of the public could attended last week's debate. The two-day...

TO OUTSIDE observers, Peter Caruana, like most of his compatriots on the minuscule Rock of Gibraltar, seems something of a paradox. Like the majority of Gibraltarians, the...

THE Spanish government is facing the threat of embarrassing legal action over border delays inflicted on travellers entering the country from Gibraltar. In an attempt to...

Tony Venables, director of the Euro Citizen Action Service, warns that the Union ignores the issue of citizenship at its peril and calls on the European Commission to...

IF EU Ombudsman Jacob Söderman gets his way, the days when members of the public had to wait months for the European Commission and other EU institutions to reply to...