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Fight against food waste

11 April 2017
Lutter contre le gaspillage alimentaire

The Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee of the European Parliament has unanimously approved a range of concrete recommendations for combating food waste. MEP Mark Demesmaeker co-negotiated the ambitious text: "Globally, 1.3 billion tonnes of food are lost every year, approximately …

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A Russian concentration camp for gays?

11 April 2017
Un camp de concentration pour homosexuels en Russie ?

The N-VA expresses its horror about the possible existence of a concentration camp for gays in the republic of Chechnya in the South of Russia. It is also seizing on that news to focus attention on the situation of gay people in Russia and its autonomous republics. "Indeed, Putin has himself for …

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Brexit: "Need to negotiate like adults"

5 April 2017
Brexit : « Négocier entre adultes »

The European Parliament has approved a Brexit resolution in which it is clearly indicated what there must be, what there can be and what there absolutely cannot be in the negotiations with the United Kingdom. "That resolution contains a whole list of good points, but at the same time seems to find …

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Dieselgate: no independent control of emission standards

5 April 2017
Dieselgate : pas de contrôle indépendant des normes d’émission

The European Parliament has approved a range of recommendations by the Dieselgate investigation committee, but rejected the creation of an independent control agency. “Yet that would have ensured tighter market supervision," reacts MEP Mark Demesmaeker, who was the vice-president of the research …

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Anneleen Van Bossuyt pushes digital boundaries in Europe

5 April 2017
Anneleen Van Bossuyt

Of all Belgian MEPs, Anneleen Van Bossuyt is the one who makes her stamp most firmly on European digital and telecoms policy. This can be seen in an analysis by the independent non-profit organisation VoteWatch Europe. "Also in dossiers on the digital economy and society, N-VA is making the …

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Turning up the heat in the fight against social dumping

3 April 2017
Renforcer la lutte contre le dumping social

MEP Helga Stevens has drawn up a list with concrete measures in order to make the fight against social dumping a whole lot more efficient. To this end she is looking in the first place at European Commissioner Marianne Thyssen (CD&V): "She must urgently create a better framework which allows less …

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