http://www.eubusiness.com The European Parliament represents, in the words of the 1957 Treaty of Rome, 'the peoples of the States brought together in the European Community'. daily 1 2006-08-09T23:01:46Z http://www.eubusiness.com/Institutions/eu-lobbyists Development of the framework for the activities of interest representatives (lobbyists) in the European institutions - European Parliament Legislative Observatory - COM(2007)0127 - A6-0105/2008 No publisher eub2 EU Law Institutions European Parliament 2008-05-08T21:33:35Z Link http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1210246322.16 The European Parliament voted on Thursday in favour of tightening rules regulating the 15,000 lobbyists that gravitate around the EU institutions. No publisher eub2 Text and Picture Copyright 2008 AFP. All other Copyright 2008 EUbusiness Ltd. All rights reserved. This material is intended solely for personal use. Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable. Headline3 Institutions European Parliament 2008-05-08T20:46:21Z News Item http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1210149123.39 A key panel at the European Parliament voted late on Tuesday in favour of requiring power companies to split their generation businesses from their transmission networks. No publisher eub2 Text and Picture Copyright 2008 AFP. All other Copyright 2008 EUbusiness Ltd. All rights reserved. This material is intended solely for personal use. Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable. Headline1 Energy European Parliament 2008-05-07T09:29:12Z News Item http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1209471436.99 A group of Members of the European Parliament urged EU countries on Tuesday to accept more asylum seekers from conflict-torn Iraq, during a visit to Jordan, which hosts hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees. No publisher eub2 Text and Picture Copyright 2008 AFP. All other Copyright 2008 EUbusiness Ltd. All rights reserved. This material is intended solely for personal use. Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable. Iraq European Parliament 2008-04-29T12:49:29Z News Item http://www.eubusiness.com/Enlargement/communism-eu.01 Can communism be compared to Nazism? Does communism's record deserve as unequivocal a condemnation as that of Nazism? And should communism's modern-day adherents and apologists be rejected as firmly by Europe's political mainstream as those of Nazism? The debate over the historical record of communism simmers on in the European Union. No publisher eub2 Copyright (c) 2008. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036. Living & Working in EU Eastern and Central Europe European Parliament 2008-04-24T20:26:11Z News Item http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1209054723.34 The president of the European Parliament blasted Belarus Thursday, saying the authoritarian ex-Soviet republic's 10 million people have a right to be free. No publisher eub2 Text and Picture Copyright 2008 AFP. All other Copyright 2008 EUbusiness Ltd. All rights reserved. This material is intended solely for personal use. Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable. Belarus European Parliament 2008-04-24T16:40:55Z News Item http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1209053822.49 The European parliament on Thursday called on China to cease arms shipments to Zimbabwe, commending South African dockworkers for refusing to unload Chinese arms bound for Harare's security forces. No publisher eub2 Text and Picture Copyright 2008 AFP. All other Copyright 2008 EUbusiness Ltd. All rights reserved. This material is intended solely for personal use. Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable. Zimbabwe China European Parliament 2008-04-24T16:22:25Z News Item http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1209052922.77 The EU must prevent resource-rich Russia putting undue pressure any of the bloc's 27 member states, the president of the European Parliament warned Thursday. No publisher eub2 Text and Picture Copyright 2008 AFP. All other Copyright 2008 EUbusiness Ltd. All rights reserved. This material is intended solely for personal use. Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable. Energy Russia European Parliament 2008-04-24T16:17:25Z News Item http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1209041223.75 The European parliament on Thursday called for EU sanctions against Myanmar to be increased to include an embargo on commodity imports, thereby threatening the regime's key oil revenues. No publisher eub2 Text and Picture Copyright 2008 AFP. 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Headline2 immigration European Parliament 2008-04-23T21:41:20Z News Item http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1208966523.73 The European Union should maintain its embargo on weapons sales to China as long as Beijing helps armed forces and groups involved in African conflicts, the European Parliament said on Wednesday. No publisher eub2 Text and Picture Copyright 2008 AFP. All other Copyright 2008 EUbusiness Ltd. All rights reserved. This material is intended solely for personal use. Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable. China European Parliament 2008-04-23T16:21:23Z News Item http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1208945823.73 Europe's long-delayed Galileo satellite navigation system passed its final legal hurdle after the European Parliament gave the flag-ship project its green light. 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Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable. European Parliament 2008-04-22T21:02:01Z News Item http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1208879223.69 The European Commission on Tuesday announced a further EUR 117.25 million in food aid to the world's most vulnerable to offset the impact of soaring prices. No publisher eub2 Text and Picture Copyright 2008 AFP. All other Copyright 2008 EUbusiness Ltd. All rights reserved. This material is intended solely for personal use. Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable. Development Trade European Parliament 2008-04-22T16:14:08Z News Item http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1208875623.38 European deputies on Tuesday voted to ban themselves from hiring family members as assistants, following a report listing abuses of the system. No publisher eub2 Text and Picture Copyright 2008 AFP. All other Copyright 2008 EUbusiness Ltd. All rights reserved. This material is intended solely for personal use. Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable. Headline3 European Parliament 2008-04-22T16:22:51Z News Item