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Movers & Shakers

Unknown costs of MEPs’ questions go unchecked

MEPs call for quotas for women directors
Parliament to debate female representation

Who says romance is dead?
Commission sets sights on shadow banking industry
Sector is not covered by existing regulation.
Theurer to chair budgets committee
Michael Theurer, a German Liberal MEP, was on Monday (23 January) named as the new chairman of the European Parliament’s budgetary control committee.
Britain’s anti-Unionists
A row over Scotland’s place in the United Kingdom has implications for the EU, too.
Parliament fails the gender test
Is the Parliament’s leadership more representative of Europe’s population than the EU’s unelected commissioners?
The fight for equal pay and for equal rights
Gender issues are not the sole responsibility of women.
Locking out citizens as well as lobbyists
Tighter security at the European Parliament is having a negative effect.
Time for a new EU approach to Turkey
Easing Turkish citizens’ movement in Europe would help relations between the two sides.
Reforms put business first
The EU wants governments and universities to do more to make sure that industry has enough quality graduates.
Music to her ears?
Copyright changes could benefit former MEP. The extension of copyright protection for musicians and producers, from 50 years to 70 years, which was approved by ministers from …
Let us pray
‘Mass for Europe’ causes concern. The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECO) is marking the Polish government’s six-month presidency of the European Union’s Council …
The phantom menace
Maltese ‘phantom’ MEP gets impatient. With the fate of the eurozone hanging in the balance, setting the EU’s priorities is especially important. Joseph Cuschieri certainly thinks that …
MEPs and Council move to limit child porn
Compromise deal leaves decision to block websites with national governments.
A Jolie good show
Hollywood star checks out the plight of refugees in Malta and Italy. Italy and Malta received short shrift from other member states earlier this year when they …
Inefficient and unambitious
Just how committed is the EU to energy efficiency?
Living together in Europe
Europe needs to handle its diversity much better than it is currently doing.
Parallel lives
Similar problems for director-generals. When the Commission’s department for justice and home affairs was divided up into a department for justice and a department for home affairs, …
Bosnia’s special agent
The frontrunners to be the next EU Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. Two senior career diplomats have emerged as favourites to take over as EU Special …
Microsoft asks Commission to investigate Google ‘abuse’
Google accused of abusing online search market.
A sinister backdrop to Roma talks
March by Jobbik was a blunt reminder of the anti-Roma sentiment in many European countries.
Ashton completes EEAS leadership
Greek diplomat appointed as managing director for global affairs.
Microsoft files anti-competition complaint against Google
Software giant asks European Commission to investigate alleged unfair practices.
And the Oscar goes to…
The Commission shows us the future of transport. Yet more evidence of Hollywood aspirations among European Commission officials. After last year’s decision to launch the consumer rights …
The Arab world’s triple crisis
Water, energy and population trends spell more trouble for governments in the Middle East and North Africa.
European Parliament post office robbed at gunpoint
Two men make away with safe from post office, as the Parliament is robbed for the third time.