EU Politics Today: EU Parliament & Committees News http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news/european-parliament-committeesConstantly updated news and information about EU Politics. EPP-ED meeting in Munich: Striking the right balance between mobility and lower CO2 emissions http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185475297 28 Aug 2008 18:33 GMT ... to the new legislation. J erzy Buzek MEP, former Prime Minister of Poland and the ... Callanan MEP, EPP-ED Group Member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food ... is the largest political group in the European Parliament with 288 Members from all 27 Member ... UPDATE 1-EU should allow more carbon offsetting -lawmakers http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185471548 28 Aug 2008 17:58 GMT ... Reuters on Thursday. If enacted under an EU Parliament vote expected in coming months, and agreed ... the proposals by the EU parliament industry committee would allow more offsetting compared with the ... Lena Ek, the Swedish member of the European Parliament guiding the emissions trading legislation for the ... EU lawmakers urge caution on bloc's carbon curbs http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185465454 28 Aug 2008 17:28 GMT ... climate treaty talks. But members of the European Parliament's influential industry committee are mulling an amendment that would demand ... latest science into any decision," Swedish liberal MEP Lena Ek, who drafted the "compromise amendments," ... EU should allow more carbon offsetting: lawmakers http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185464279 28 Aug 2008 17:24 GMT ... Reuters on Thursday. If enacted under an EU Parliament vote expected in coming months, and agreed ... the proposals by the EU parliament industry committee would allow more offsetting compared with the ... EU should allow more carbon offsetting -lawmakers http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185455119 28 Aug 2008 16:30 GMT ... Reuters on Thursday. If enacted under an EU Parliament vote slated for the coming months and ... the proposals by the EU parliament industry committee would allow far more offsetting than EU ... Lena Ek, a Swedish member of the European Parliament guiding emissions trading legislation for the committee. ... MEPs urged to vote for more car fuel efficiency http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185418115 28 Aug 2008 12:53 GMT ... MEPs urged to vote for more car fuel ... Monday next week ahead of an industry committee meeting on the cars directive. The environment ... EU lawmakers urge caution on bloc's CO2 curbs http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185416072 28 Aug 2008 12:39 GMT ... China and the United States commit to their own reductions. But members of the European Parliament's influential industry committee are mulling an amendment that would demand a full impact assessment before cutting beyond ... Europeans back tough car emission targets - poll http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185414056 28 Aug 2008 12:36 GMT ... group, may strengthen the case for the European Parliament to keep tough targets for lowering emissions ... gases blamed for global warming. A key committee at the legislature votes on Monday on ... Are Cloned Animals Next on the Menu? http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185412393 28 Aug 2008 12:29 GMT ... cloning of animals for food. Next week MEPs will question the Commission about the issue ... grilled on the issue next week The committee agreed a series of questions that it ... EU lawmakers mulling changes to bloc's CO2 curbs http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185405896 28 Aug 2008 11:30 GMT ... China and the United States commit to their own reductions. But members of the European Parliament's influential industry committee are mulling an amendment that would demand a full impact assessment before cutting beyond ... Children at risk from unexploded cluster bombs. Colm Burke MEP http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185405309 28 Aug 2008 11:28 GMT ... risk from unexploded cluster bombs. Colm Burke MEP T he use of cluster bombs during ... Georgian villages. D uring the Human Rights Committee meeting of the European Parliament this week in Brussels, a Human Rights ... DIARY - Top economic Events - to Sept 11 http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185365543 28 Aug 2008 05:16 GMT ... LONDON- Bank of England (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting, (to Sept. 4). OTTIGNIES-LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE - ... ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet testifies before the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (0930-1230 ... Letter to President Nicolas Sarkozy in Advance of the September 1 Emergency Summit http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185363913 28 Aug 2008 04:34 GMT ... Foreign Affairs Committee, the Security and Defence Subcommittee and the Delegation for Relations with the ... Representative, Mr. Javier Solana President of the European Parliament, Mr. Hans-Gert Poettering EU Special Representative for ... German Cars Lead in CO2 Reductions http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185300647 27 Aug 2008 20:17 GMT ... proposal has to be approved by the European Parliament and member state governments before becoming law, ... in early 2009. The European Parliament's Environment Committee is scheduled to vote on the car ... Ministers from 47 Council of Europe member states meet in Kyiv http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185235837 27 Aug 2008 13:16 GMT ... Minister Tobias Billstrm (Swedish Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe), ... the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, the European Parliament and the Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada). ...