Governments, companies and organizations need to make more efforts to address sexual harassment. 'There are a lot of laws, guidelines and codes of conduct, but they have to be implemented,' said EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström during a debate in the EU Parliament in Strasbourg.
On a farm in the village of Niederlauterbach in Alsace, 63 cattle were killed by a chemical reaction of ammonium sulphate mixed with the manure of the animals. The farmer was brought to a hospital for observation, but appears unharmed.
With the British departure, the European Union has fewer countries, so it is 'logical and pragmatic' to reduce the number of seats in the European Parliament. Donald Tusk, President of the European Council of Heads of State, said Tuesday in the European Parliament.
President Pedro Agramunt of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly resigned. The Spanish senator was deprived of his powers in April. On Monday he raised a motion of distrust above the head.
A trade mission from the European Parliament to Myanmar is postponed because of the violence against Islamic Rohingya in the country. 'It would be the wrong signal to talk about trade now,' said D66 European Parliamentary Marietje Schaake.
Before Jean-Claude Juncker began his annual 'Union of State' on Wednesday, he gave his second husband, Frans Timmermans, a thick packet on his forehead. It's not the first time Juncker's employees are remarkably greeted intimately.
The EU stands for further integration. If it is chairman of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, gas is progressing with the European project in the last two years before it is declining.
The treatment of migrants in Libyan detention centers is inhuman and unacceptable. The EU therefore urges Libya authorities to conclude that they are closed if there is no improvement, said Federal Minister Federica Mogherini Tuesday in a debate in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
The European Union releases 120 million euros for free WiFi in at least six thousand locations in Europe. Per applicant, 20,000 euros will be available from next year. Whoever comes first, first served. Hospitals, libraries or other public places should then keep the system in air for at least three years.
The European Parliament is dissatisfied with the European award for freedom of thought and expression awarded by Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi from Myanmar in 1990. The current government leader of former Burma released this week on allegations that the Asian army is guilty of ethnic cleansing of the Islamic population of Rohingya.
Nicolas Bay (Front National) takes over the seat of Marine Le Pen as co-chair of the European Union of Nations and Freedom Group (ENF). The PVV is also in that group. Marcel de Graaff (PVV) remains the other chairman.
The European Parliament began its plenary session in Strasbourg with a minute's silence.
There is a chance that the Netherlands will have more seats in the European Parliament. Now there are 26, but there could be 28 if the British parliamentarians in 2019 had to get their hands on them.
The revelations that Azerbaijan would have bought a large number of European politicians from, among other things, the Council of Europe, are in good shape at the organization's parliamentary meeting (PACE). Everything that sheds light on alleged corruption is welcome, said Vice-President Roger Gale. Last summer, the parliamentarians have already been investigating this.
Companies that want to check the email traffic of employees should not do that. Their staff must know that their messages can be checked before the management passes to that measure.
Euro Commissaries have sometimes charged tens of thousands of euros in travel over the past few years. President Jean-Claude Juncker ordered nearly € 25,000 for a private flight to fly an EU delegation to Rome.
A peperdure and supercell Lamborghini has disappeared smoothly from Swiss Zurich. A 'nice, neat woman' took the car for a 'business trip' but did not return to the rental company. The woman and the exclusive bolide disappeared with the northern zone.
The Council of Europe's anti-fouling committee judges destructively about the Belgian prison system, especially at strikes. There is a risk that 'situations that are already considered unacceptable will become even worse', the committee wrote in a report on Thursday.
The boerkaverbod which is in force in Belgium does not conflict with the human rights treaty. That has been judged by the European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday. It has been forbidden in Belgium since 2011 to cover the face (partially) in public places.
Turkey has to release Immigration International Director of the Turkish Department on Wednesday. This call made the two Turkey rapporteurs of the Council of Europe on Friday.
The EU must stop negotiations with Turkey on accession if the country drives further European democratic values. That call made a large majority of the European Parliament (477 for, 64 against and 97 abstentions) Thursday in Strasbourg.
Cuba and the European Union can begin to normalize their relations. The European Parliament gave its blessing to the cooperation agreement signed in December by both parties in Strasbourg. 567 MPs voted for and 65 against, 31 abstained from voting.
The pressure on Italy because of the continuing flow of migrants is so great that all EU countries need to help. In an action plan, the European Commission presented a series of measures on Tuesday. Over 85,000 people already crossed from Libya this year and there were certainly 2150 drowned.
The European Parliament is 'not serious.' 'You are ridiculous,' said a furious President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker on Tuesday morning at the Strasbourg plenary session. Nearly thirty parliamentarians had appeared before a session with Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, about the Malta-based EU Presidency.
The European Commission comes with additional plans to address illegal migration. Italy was flooded last week with migrants arriving by boat from North Africa.
Eight soldiers from the Bundeswehr and the Eurocorps arrived in Strasbourg with the chest of deceased Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Strasbourg.
Numerous world leaders and other high-ranking guests prove the latest honor to Helmut Kohl in Strasbourg today. The deceased former chancellor will be the first European funeral ceremony, but not his homeland. The honorary citizen of Europe, along with his widow, preferred to have a ceremony in neighboring France.
Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl (87) is being buried today. As a European citizen, he gets the first EU funeral of history. 'My husband was European. He always worried about Europe's well-being, which is a matter of war and peace for him. '
The former leader of the Soviet Union Michail Gorbachev has denounced for the ceremony in Strasbourg where the recently-deceased German Chancellor Helmut Kohl is commemorated on July 1. Gorbachev told Tuesday that he could not be present for health reasons.
Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl (1930-2017) is buried in Speyer and not in the family grave in Ludwigshafen. This has left a confidant of the 16th deceased statesman, Kai Diekmann, on Tuesday.
