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Situation in the Arab world and North Africa

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Situation in the Arab world and North Africa

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Programme of activity of the Polish presidency

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Roaming rip-offs must be tackled

SNP MEP and Party President Ian Hudghton has welcomed proposals from the European Commission to further lower the costs of using mobile phones abroad.   Today's package of measures to lower charges for mobile internet use when abroad (data roaming), follows last week's announcement o...
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Data protection

The European Parliament today adopted a report on the reform of the EU data protection directive, in a reply to the Commission's communication from 2010. This will now feed into the legislative proposal, which is expected at the end of the year. After the vote Green data protection ex...
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Body scanners

The European Parliament today adopted a report on the use of body scanners in airports (Grandes report). The Greens welcomed the outcome, after Green proposals calling for stricter conditions on the use of body scanners were adopted, notably the exclusion of x-ray technology. After the vote, Green t...
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Mobile roaming charges

The European Commission today outlined proposals to introduce caps on roaming charges, notably for data roaming and SMSs. The Greens welcomed the proposals as an important and necessary step for consumers, given the resistance of mobile phone operators to dropping these excessive charges. Commenting...
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Women in business

The European Parliament today adopted a report on women in business, calling on businesses to increase the number of women in leading positions or face EU quotas. After the vote, Green MEP Marije Cornelissen said: "The current situation where only 12% of board members and 3% of CEO's of big com...
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Food labelling

The European Parliament today endorsed a final agreement on new EU legislation on information on food products. The Greens supported the final agreement, which will include some important concrete improvements for consumers, but the group would have preferred more ambitious rules, notably full front...
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MEP Spotlight

Since 2009 the Evert Vermeer Foundation has been awarding the Fair Politician prize to the Member of the European Parliament who has contributed most to enhance Policy Coherence for Development. Without coherent policies, development cooperation cannot be fully effective. In Brussels,  the Ev...