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Uniform European approach to traffic safety

21 June 2011

Last week, the European Parliament Transport Committee visited the Euregio Maas-Rhine. N-VA Member of the European Parliament, Frieda Brepoels, was one of the driving forces behind this visit. The challenges for cross-border public transport were discussed extensively, as was the police …

Better protection for world cultural heritage

16 June 2011

Today, the Senate approved a resolution by the N-VA that must provide greater legal protection for world cultural heritage against destruction by war by bringing civil and military key figures before the International Criminal Court. Sometimes museums and monuments are intentionally destroyed during …

The N-VA welcomes European recommendations

8 June 2011

The N-VA feels encouraged by the European Commission’s report. The six major warnings that Belgium received are completely in line with the N-VA’s social-economic programme and its previous communications concerning the European semester. "The N-VA feels that it is high time that we finally comply …

Urgent need for more European coordination

7 June 2011

An analysis of what was went wrong and what must now be done was carried out during the European Parliament debate on the E. coli crisis. According to Frieda Brepoels, N-VA Member of the European Parliament, there isn’t only a problem with the German government, but also with the competent European …

European foreign policy growing pains

30 May 2011

It is necessary more than ever to develop a consistent foreign policy in order for Europe to become an effective mouthpiece. If Europe wants to play at a global level, then it must be seen to be adopting positions decisively and unswervingly. That is the conclusion that we have been able to draw …

Finally a more severe policy for reuniting families

27 May 2011

For the first time in 30 years, the Belgian immigration law (vreemdelingenwet) has been made stricter. We have been waiting for this for years in Flanders, and now it is finally happening thanks to the hard work and pioneering role played by the N-VA fraction within the Chamber of Representatives …

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