EPP : Emissions trading reform to fight climate change

23.01.2018

The European Parliament's Education and Employment Committee has approved an agreement to revamp the Europass, a kind of online European Union CV, to help Europeans find jobs and get training in EU countries.The file now moves to the European Parliament for its approval in plenary and to EU...

11.01.2018

The European Parliament's Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee has approved legislation to block terrorists' access to financing, sending the dossier to plenary next week. The EPP Group's Shadow Rapporteur Salvatore Pogliesi says the EU-wide legislation, based on an...

13.12.2017

The European Parliament has rejected a bid to outlaw phosphates in frozen kebab meat, pending a study in 2018 by the European Food Safety Agency. The EPP Group's Renate Sommer argued that banning phosphates in kebabs was unjustified, since the food additive is used in other foods as well.

06.12.2017

The 26th European summit between EPP Group MEPs and MPs lent its support to the PESCO common defence initiative. They also discussed Brexit, improving Europe's economy, and a reinforced Erasmus youth study programme.

05.12.2017

The Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee has approved a Parliament/ European Council/ Commission agreement on legislation to ban geoblocking on digitally sold goods and services within the EU. The legislation, authored by the EPP Group's Rosa Thun, does not include videos...

23.11.2017

Spurred by deadly wildfires in Portugal and flooding in Eastern Europe, the European Commission is proposing to make the EU's voluntary Civil Protection Mechanism mandatory. Paulo Rangel, an EPP Group Vice-Chair, says the system is cost-effective in helping countries deal with disasters by...

21.11.2017

In committee, MEPs have approved a new law creating an EU-wide standard set of contract rules for digital content provided by businesses to consumers. In committee, they also agreed to new rules on the use of copyright and related rights for online transmissions and retransmissions of TV and radio...

09.11.2017

A Young Parliament Members' European Forum on 7 and 8 November brought together MEPs and MPs from across Europe. How to tackle the threat posed by extremist forces on the left and the right to European unity was a key issue during the forum. On the second day they signed a resolution...

07.11.2017

The House of European History hosted a debate on 7 November 2017 to mark 100 years since the Russian Revolution. At the time it looked like a hopeless putsch by a small group of ideological extremists but the result was a totalitarian communist regime that annihilated millions of people. MEPs...

07.11.2017

The European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs approved reports on three pieces of legislation calling for greater access and use of the Schengen Information System to track down criminals, terrorists and migrants who are denied asylum. EPP Group MEPs Carlos...