Tag: MEPs
Assistants to UDF/MoDem MEPs: judgment time for François Bayrou
Jean-Baptiste Marty with AFP / Photo credits: LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP 7:05 a.m., February 5, 2024modified to 11:34 a.m., February 5, 2024 The Paris court rules Monday morning on the…
Faced with the farmers’ outcry, the uneasiness of Macronist MEPs
Arthur de Laborde 7:49 a.m., January 23, 2024 As the movement of anger among farmers grows, pressure increases for Macronie and its MEPs, most of whom have spoken out in…
MEPs’ agreement on “media freedom law” criticized
German MEP Sabine Verheyen (European People’s Party, right), during a press conference at the European Parliament, in Budapest (Hungary), November 4, 2022. ATTILA KISBENEDEK / AFP A first at European…
MEPs agree on a “media freedom law”, a first at European level
MEPs and the twenty-seven member countries of the European Union agreed on Friday December 15 on legislation intended to protect the pluralism and independence of the media, announced the European…
Assistants to FN MEPs: Marine Le Pen, the party and 26 people sent to trial
Two financial investigating judges on Friday ordered the referral to the Paris criminal court of Marine Le Pen, the National Rally and 26 other people suspected of having participated in…
MEPs vote to green packaging, with lowered ambitions
Pinned by Brussels, France announced a series of measures to try to improve the sorting and recycling of its household waste and packaging (AFP/Archives/Thomas SAMSON) “Reusable” containers, deposits, recycled plastic……
MEPs toughen emissions standards for buses and heavy goods vehicles
After cars, trucks and buses. On Tuesday, November 21, MEPs voted by 445 votes – 152 against, 30 abstentions – in favor of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from heavy goods…
MEPs adopt proposals for old age but ask for “means”
Suspended since mid-April, the examination of a bill proposed by Emmanuel Macron on old age resumed, Monday, November 20, in the National Assembly with the adoption of new articles on…
French MEPs help the box of Camembert
During the Brexit campaign in 2016, British conservative Boris Johnson loved to mock European legislation which, he claimed, very wrongly, would ban bananas. “curves” and bunches of more than three…
MEPs approve emergency aid for organic farming
MPs approved on Monday the establishment of emergency aid of 271 million euros to support organic agriculture, by adopting a transpartisan amendment against the government’s advice. The amendment was approved…
MEPs approve more than a billion euros in additional spending for agriculture
The deputies adopted on Monday against the advice of the government several measures which would result in increasing the expenditure of the agricultural budget by one billion euros, with little…
MEPs approve funding for anti-harassment brigades at school
The Assembly examined Friday evening the appropriations of the 2024 draft budget devoted to National Education, up 6.2%, without going as far as a vote, and adopted an amendment providing…