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Strasbourg plenary session 23-26 November
MEPs are set to make a final decision on an overhaul of Europe's telecoms market that will impact internet users. They will also vote on new labels to make tyres more fuel and cost efficient when they meet in Strasbourg. MEPs are also likely to call for leadership from Europe ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit.
Buzek welcomes appointments for top EU posts
The whole EU can "now focus more on the crucial issues facing our citizens" according to the Parliament's President Jerzy Buzek. He was speaking after the appointment of Herman Von Rompuy and Catherine Ashton to the top two posts created by the Lisbon treaty. The latter will have to appear for a Q&A session before Members of the European Parliament before she can take up her post, a procedure now foreseen for January.
Stockholm programme: balancing liberty and security
Atalanta chief on EU fight against pirates
NATO boss Rasmussen calls for stronger security cooperation with EU
"Finance and climate change" - a challenge for the future
Telecoms Package: internet access safeguarded
8 things that caught our eye during the Brussels November Plenary session
MEPs under threat of assassination
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EP to vote on long awaited Telecom package 24 November
After nearly 2 years of wrangling the Telecom Package will be put to a final vote in Parliament
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people in Europe suffer from Alzheimer's and related disorders, a figure expected to double by 2020
during a formal EP sitting commemorating the democratic changes in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989Europe is the "homeland of our homelands"
With which country did the EU hold a summit in Stockholm 18 November?
LUX prize: "Eastern Plays", "Sturm", "Welcome"
A play about reluctant a Neo-Nazi and his brother, a Yugoslav war crimes prosecutor and how a swimming teacher helps a migrant are three subjects tackled in the short list for the Parliament's 2009 LUX film prize. We spoke to the film makers about their work and what has influenced them.
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