Seal product ban approved by EU

In May the European Union passed a bill to ban the import of seal products by a vote of 550-49.  Today this bill has been approved by the EU member states, a move that the Canadian government said would be...

Pirate Party Wins Seat in European Parliament.

For the first time in history a member of the Pirate Party, an organization dedicated to defending the intellectual property rights of consumers and their ability to file share, has won a seat in the EU Parliament....

Super Sunday: Europe Votes To Elect New European Parliament

Europe voted for extremist parties across member states in a historic four-day long Parliament election with record low turnout. On Sunday, voters in the nineteen out of twenty-seven member states of the...

EU Elections: Desperate French Opposition

Between 4th and 7th June 2009, the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) will hold its 7th European Parliament elections. About three quarters of the 736 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will be...

Venezuela condemns EU Parliament stand on corruption

Caracas, Venezuela, 23 October 2008. Venezuelan Government quickly rejected an European Parliament resolution issued today on democracy. The Vice Minister for European Affairs, Ambassador Alejandro Fleming...

EU to debate data transfers to US

"The European Parliament is to debate how much data on air passengers and bank transactions is fed into a US anti-terror profiling system. The EU has already raised concerns with Washington that the US system could be gaining access to passenger data in ways that violate an...

EU moves to cure vodka headache

"The European Parliament has suggested a possible solution to a dispute between EU states over the definition of vodka. Poland, Sweden and Finland say only spirits distilled from grain or potato are truly entitled to be called vodka. Other countries, such as Hungary, Spain...

A Visit with a Man Wrongly Detained at Guantanamo

"Murat Kurnaz was detained in the United States detention camp at Guantánamo, Cuba, for almost five years and released three weeks ago. Cem Özdemir, a member of the European Parliament, visited Kurnaz at his...

NOWPUBLIC.com's asbestos news coverage mentioned in European Parliament...

NOWPUBLIC.COM and other internet news archives have been mentioned in the European Parliament’s recent conference on asbestos. Save Spodden Valley campaigners Su Wilson, Nigel Morrell, Mick Coats and Jason...

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