European Parliament

The European Parliament,

Women in the elections of the European Parliament

55. One member of the Sorbian people has been a member of the European Parliament since the election to the European Parliament on 13 June 1994.

Resolutions 2000 2249 and 2002 2044 of the European Parliament

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Table 8.1. Participation of Spanish women in the European Parliament

But the European Commission is not accountable to the European Parliament in the same way that a national government is accountable to its parliament. The EU s member governments name the members of the European Commission, and the Parliament lacks an explicit right to veto them.

Two women were elected to the European Parliament (Siiri Oviir, Marianne Mikko), one of them (Marianne Mikko) is currently the head of the Moldova delegation of the European Parliament.

The regulation is expected to be adopted by the European Parliament and the European Council in 2006.

Directive 97 7 EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

This new eurozone parliament could be formed either by a subset of members of the larger European Parliament, or by some combination of representatives from the European Parliament and national parliaments. The proposed finance minister, responsible for overseeing fiscal policy in the monetary union, would be responsible to the eurozone parliament.

UNCITRAL Model Law on International Credit Transfers (1992) (Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union)

Estonia has six members in the European Parliament, currently two of them are women.

3 European Parliament, report of the Intergroup for Indigenous People, July 1996 July 1997.

The following intergovernmental organizations were represented by observers European Parliament, Pan American Health Organization.

European Union, European Parliament and Council Decisions on Europe Against AIDS programme (including dec. 91 317 EEC and dec. 1279 95 EC)

This possibility was acknowledged by the European Court of Justice in the case Parliament v.

A proposal from the Commission of the European Union for a new directive is currently under discussion by the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament.

14 European Union, Legislative Acts and Other Instruments, Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the framework for the creation of the Single European Sky.

For instance, the European Parliament resolution on the death penalty in the world and the introduction of a European Day against the Death Penalty.

A Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union had been issued, based on the principles of the Model Law

On 7 July 1988, the European Parliament adopted a resolution condemning the massacres in Sumgait, which read

The European Parliament adopted two important resolutions on children in December 1996, both inspired by the Convention.

The staff of the European Institute consists of six persons.

International mobilization led to the adoption by the Council of Europe, the European Parliament and the European Commission of guidelines and resolutions on female genital mutilation.

The passage of the judgment in Parliament v. Council16 considered both the European Community and its member States.

Directives 2004 17 EC and 2004 18 EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 (Official Journal of the European Union, No.

Recent polls suggest that, across Europe, about 40 of the population still trust the European Parliament, whereas only 25 trust their national parliaments. Moreover, the European Parliament retains much higher trust than the US Congress, which has approval ratings that are now below 10 .

The European Union employs a permanent staff of about 2,500 translators.

66. The staff of the European Institute consists of 6 persons.

Recently, however, they had been joined by other members of the international community, including the European Parliament in 1996.

At the invitation of the Chairman, Mr. Aurrekoetxea (member of the Basque Parliament and Chair of the European Parliament Intergroup Peace and Freedom in the Sahara ) took a place at the petitioners' table.

Arab Labour Organization, Commonwealth Secretariat, Council of Europe, European Parliament, European Union, International Organization for Migration, League of Arab States, Organization of African Unity, Organization of the Islamic Conference

Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation, European Commission, European Parliament, International Organization for Migration, League of Arab States, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Organization of the Islamic Conference.

Subtotal Intergovernmental organizations European Community Additional staff costs in health, 1997 programme

Regulation (EC) No 725 2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on enhancing ship and port facility security

The number of Spanish women in the European Parliament doubled between 1989 and 1995 from 15 to 32.8 per cent.

Testified at a 2004 public hearing at the European Parliament on The Consequences of the Sex Industry in the European Union. Invited by the Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities Committee.

In fact, for many young people in the debtor countries, the EU seems like a foreign oppressor. And about 30 of the recently elected European Parliament ran on anti European platforms.

On 11 December 2003, the Joint Conciliation Committee of the European Parliament and the Council approved the joint text of the framework regulation for the creation of the Single European Sky.

A European finance ministry should be created, and its head should preside over the Eurogroup (which convenes the finance ministers of eurozone member states). A special Assembly of the European Parliament, comprising the eurozone members, should have powers on the model of a national parliament to legislate and control the executive.

51. On 12 June 1997, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the elections in Indonesia and the situation in East Timor.

By contrast, the European Parliament has a better reputation than the EU as a whole the average EU wide level of trust in the European Parliament is 54 , whereas in Britain it is 30 . Across the EU, 48 think EU membership is a good thing in Britain, this figure falls to 29 .

At first sight, the easiest answer to the problem of low voter turnout is to give more power to the European Parliament. But if this was the solution, then we would not have had steadily declining turnouts since the high point of 63 , at the first elections to the European Parliament in 1979.