Dodging question of Mubarak resignation, EU calls for transitional government
Updated: 2011-01-31 20:01:04
, NEWS OPINION BLOGS AGENDA CONFERENCES BOOKS VIDEOS TWITTER HEADLINE NEWS Dodging question of Mubarak resignation , EU calls for transitional government The EU is stressing the importance of peaceful dialogue Photo : Sarah Carr LEIGH PHILLIPS Today 21:01 CET EUOBSERVER BRUSSELS The European Union has called for the Egyptian authorities to begin an orderly transition in the wake of the upheaval seen on the streets of the north African nation over the past week , but has stressed that it is not up to the EU to call on leader Hosni Mubarak to step down Print Comment article EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels for their monthly meeting on Monday agreed to urge the Egyptian authorities to embark on an orderly transition through a broad-based government leading to a genuine process of
NEWS OPINION BLOGS AGENDA CONFERENCES BOOKS VIDEOS TWITTER HEADLINE NEWS EU parliament ceiling collapse saved 1.7mn ANDREW WILLIS Today 16:20 CET EUOBSERVER BRUSSELS Travel and accommodation savings of nearly 2 million were made in 2008 when MEPs were forced to relocate to Brussels due to a collapsed ceiling in the European Parliament's Strasbourg plenary chamber , according to documents published this month . Responding to recent questions from MEPs , parliament's top official , Klaus Welle , estimated that the additional costs associated with holding two September sessions in Brussels as opposed to Strasbourg amounted to 818,740, largely due to train and hotel cancellation fees . Parliament's ceiling , shortly after the August 2008 collapse Photo : strastv Print Comment article When
The broadcast media are still lumberingly trying to run the narrative which they’ve pursued since the general election, viz: “Coalition Under Pressure From Unspeakable Tory Right”.
Last week, I was called by three different television researchers looking for 1) a defence of the two sacked Sky sports presenters; 2) an attack on Sayeeda Warsi’s speech about [...]
NEWS OPINION BLOGS AGENDA CONFERENCES BOOKS VIDEOS TWITTER HEADLINE NEWS Domino revolutions' top EU agenda THIS WEEK ANDREW RETTMAN 29.01.2011 13:00 CET EUOBSERVER AGENDA 31 January to 4 February With tanks on the streets of Cairo and the death toll climbing steeply in protests against Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak over the weekend , EU foreign policy in the Arab and Muslim world will be in sharp focus next . week EU institutions on Friday declined to speculate on the implications of a potential revolution in what is arguably the most important country in the Arab . world Protests across north Africa and the Middle East have focussed European minds Photo : Mahmoud Saber Print Comment article A senior EU official poured cold water on Italy's idea to send an EU crisis mission to north Africa
NEWS OPINION BLOGS AGENDA CONFERENCES BOOKS VIDEOS TWITTER HEADLINE NEWS EU parliament chief calls for justice' in Uganda gay rights killing LEIGH PHILLIPS 28.01.2011 09:26 CET EUOBSERVER BRUSSELS The president of the European Parliament , Jerzy Buzek , has sharply condemned the assassination of famed Ugandan gay-rights campaigner David Kato , and used the occasion of the killing to demand the country decriminalise homosexuality , a land where a man who loves another man may soon face the death . penalty Ugandan newspaper Rolling Stone's cover featuring the faces and addresses of gays and lesbians Photo : sampaloctoc Print Comment article David Kato was a man that fought for the rights of people to live freely regardless of their sexual orientation in Uganda , said Mr Buzek , a Polish .
NEWS OPINION BLOGS AGENDA CONFERENCES BOOKS VIDEOS TWITTER ENVIRONMENT EU call to step up energy efficiency seen as weak ANDREW WILLIS 28.01.2011 09:23 CET EUOBSERVER BRUSSELS EU leaders meeting in Brussels next week are set to call for the region's internal energy market to be completed by 2014, together with greater efforts to achieve a 20 percent increase in energy efficiency by 2020. Draft conclusions for the special energy summit , dated 25 January and seen by EUobserver , also suggest leaders will ask EU high representative Catherine Ashton to take full account of the bloc's energy security as she travels the globe , cultivating the union's strategic partnerships' . Member states are not meeting energy efficiency goals Photo : eastpole Print Comment article Both European Council
, NEWS OPINION BLOGS AGENDA CONFERENCES BOOKS VIDEOS TWITTER ENLARGEMENT Croatia to join EU in 2013 at the earliest , MEP says VALENTINA POP 27.01.2011 17:39 CET EUOBSERVER BRUSSELS Croatia can become the EU's 28th member states at the earliest in 2013, if it closes entry talks in June and if the ratification process is not delayed by the Netherlands and Slovenia , the MEP in charge of the dossier told this . website If everything goes very well , it could be 2013. All relevant people are working very hard to finalise negotiations in June , Austrian Socialist MEP Hannes Swoboda said in a phone interview with EUobserver on Thursday 27 January Croatia harbour : Zagreb's long journey to the EU may take three more years Photo : EUobserver Print Comment article Talks are likely to be
NEWS OPINION BLOGS AGENDA CONFERENCES BOOKS VIDEOS TWITTER INSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS Eurosceptic group in turmoil as leader steps down ANDREW RETTMAN 27.01.2011 09:26 CET EUOBSERVER BRUSSELS The Polish leader of the eurosceptic European Conservatives and Reformists ECR group in the European Parliament has said he will resign , posing questions about its . future Michal Kaminski made the announcement on Polish TV on Wednesday 26 January saying : I do not want to transplant the Polish-Polish war into the European Parliament because this is harmful for Poland . The leadership change will again highlight the Conservative Party's weak position in Brussels Photo : European Parliament Print Comment article I want this the ECR leadership change to happen in as calm a way as possible . I underline and
No blog attacked the bank bail-outs earlier or more angrily than this one. It was outrageous that taxpayers were forced to rescue some wealthy individuals from the consequences of their errors.
Still, I struggle to understand the current obsession, across the political spectrum, with the one performance-related bit of bankers’ remuneration, namely their bonuses. An understandable, [...]
NEWS OPINION BLOGS AGENDA CONFERENCES BOOKS VIDEOS TWITTER ENVIRONMENT EU moots link between resource efficiency and budgetary targets ANDREW WILLIS 26.01.2011 17:44 CET EUOBSERVER BRUSSELS The European Commission is preparing to publish a set of resource efficiency targets in a paper this summer , potentially forcing member states to limit their consumption of fuels , minerals and water , amongst other items . Presenting the commission's seventh and final flagship initiative under the EU's 2020 strategy for growth and jobs on Wednesday 26 January European environment commissioner Janez Potocnik said the targets could also be linked to the recently introduced European Semester' , a reporting system for co-ordinating and surveilling member state budgets . Growing population numbers are
I ran into Lord Tebbit last night at a meeting of anti-EU MPs and peers in a Westminster committee room. The great man passed on a suggestion from one of his Telegraph blog readers which I feel deserves much wider circulation.
Instead of vitiating Magna Carta through Control Orders, suggested Norman’s reader, why not simply ask [...]
Home News News Global warming hoax hits British sugar beet growers News Global warming hoax hits British sugar beet growers 26 01 2011 15:04 webmaster 80 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds VIDEO The East of England MEP , Stuart Agnew UKIP has clashed with the Belgian Minister for Small Businesses and Agriculture , Sabine Laruelle , during a debate in the European Parliament's Agriculture Rural Development Committee 25.01.2011 The Committee was discussing the future of Agriculture and the Minister brought up the subject of climate . change Mr Agnew said : Those two dreaded words are like a red rag to a bull to me He went on to describe the situation in the East of England for sugar beet growers . nbsp As I speak , there are thousands of acres of sugar beet that are not fit to process because of
News that The King’s Speech is leading the Oscars’ field will probably come as no surprise to those that have seen the film – unfortunately, most of “those” reside outside the Brussels bubble, since it won’t appear on Belgian cinema screens until around 23 February. From what the Lobby can surmise from the snippets of information [...]
NEWS OPINION BLOGS AGENDA CONFERENCES BOOKS VIDEOS TWITTER POLITICAL AFFAIRS Kroes gives Hungary an ultimatum on media law VALENTINA POP 26.01.2011 09:30 CET EUOBSERVER BRUSSELS The EU commissioner in charge of media issues , Neelie Kroes , has raised serious doubts about Hungary's new media law in a letter to Budapest and given the country a two-week ultimatum to the government to explain itself . Hungarian leader Viktor Orban however said the law was intended to combat racism . Ms Kroes has told Budapest to change the media law or face legal action Photo : European Parliament Print Comment article The commission services have serious doubts as to the compatibility of Hungarian legislation with Union law . Considering the urgency of this case I invite the Hungarian government to submit
Nigel Lawson once remarked that “the NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion“.
Sure enough, this morning’s Thought for the Day, by the Bishop of Liverpool, was sermon in favour of Britain’s healthcare model, with digs at the European and American alternatives. At the very end, almost as an afterthought, the bishop [...]
Greetings and Happy New Year! (Can we still wish people Happy New Year on 19 January? Oh well, who cares!) Apologies for the rather long Lobby hiatus. It’s been a very busy few months, culminating in an exciting office move of 100 metres which now sees us sitting above the junction of Avenue des Arts [...]