 - News report : 10-12-99
- 1: Go-ahead for Culture 2000
 - News report : 09-12-99
- 1: Conciliation agreement: EUR 5 million more for energy SAVE II ALTENER II
 - News report : 08-12-99
- 1: Funding for Kosovo - The ball is in the Council's court
- 2: European Council, Helsinki
- 3: Beef labelling on agenda for Strasbourg plenary
- 4: Agriculture Committee also demands compulsory beef labelling by Sept. 2000
- 5: Anti-discrimination measures are incomplete
- 6: Many reasons for breakdown of WTO talks
- 7: EU should ratify Kyoto protocol ealry - Yes to energy tax
 - News report : 07-12-99
- 1: WTO talks on agriculture will start in 2000
- 2: Withholding tax - New compromise proposed
- 3: Commisioner FISCHLER on the Fisheries industry
- 4: Green light for new members of court of auditors
- 5: Creating an area of freedom, security and justice
- 6: Cautious optimism over outcome of Tampere summit
 - News report : 01-12-99
- 1: Target is for first accessions to take place before next European elections
- 2: EP legislative initiative to boost protection of motorists abroad
- 3: EU fishermen return to port
- 4: MEPS support proposals on combating discrimination
 - News report : 30-11-99
- 1: External value of euro interest rates no change in strategy says ECB President
- 2: All MEPS' credentials verified
 - News report : 29-11-99
- 1: No agreement on the revision of financial perspectives
- 2: Slovak road ahead to EU membership seems clear
 - News report : 26-11-99
- 1: Piecemeal-like GMO food labelling criticised
- 2: Conciliation committee: fruitful first meeting with the Coucil on Culture 2000
- 3: Euro Coins and notes: frontloading of consumers beginning Dec. 2001
 - News report : 25-11-99
- 1: Death sentence on Abdullah Ocalan - Mrs Fontaine contacts Turkish Parliament
- 2: Faster protection for the ozone layer
- 3: Savings tax - Commissioner hopeful for an agreement
- 4: First meeting of MEPs involved in drafting charter of fundamental rights
- 5: Mr Solbes: growth acceleration and decline in unemployment
- 6: Liberalisation of fisheries products subject to control
- 7: The fight against money laundering
- 8: Food safety: alarming increase in food-borne disease
 - News report : 24-11-99
- 1: Green light for heavy goods vehicles agreement with Switzerland
- 2: Close watch to be kept on aid for Turkey
- 3: Commissioner Verheugen before Forgeign Affairs Committee
- 4: War in Chechnya halts economic reforms assistance for Russia
- 5: The lessons of the Tokai-Mura nuclear accident
- 6: Commissioner Lamy is otherwise engaged..
 - News report : 23-11-99
- 1: Protectionist measures towards Third World countries Criticised
- 2: Joint communication from the EP and the Council of Europe on social rights
 - News report : 11-11-99
- 1: Prodi calls for maximum convergence between EP and Commission on IGC
- 2: Socrates deal clinched with a budget of Euro 1.85 Billion
- 3: Conciliation committee: no agreement on save ALTENER programmes
 - News report : 10-11-99
- 1: Constitutional affairs committee calls for far-reaching reforms
- 2: Revision of funding for external action
- 3: No fingerprinting children under the age of 18
- 4: Go-ahead for new DAPHNE programme
 - News report : 09-11-99
- 1: Divorces and child custody judgements to be recognised EU wide
- 2: Towards a European research area
 - News report : 05-11-99
- 1: Rocard - Greater focus on reducing working hours
 - News report : 21-10-99
- 1: Green light for crackdown on pollution from juggernauts
 - News report : 20-10-99
- 1: EU's external action is key point for Parliament in 2000 budget
- 2: Countdown to Election of New Ombudsman
- 3: Environment Commissioner should attend Seattle trade talks
- 4: Commissioner Reding: anti-doping and European Year of Languages
- 5: Consuumer information on car fuel economy available soon
 - News report : 19-10-99
- 1: MEPs on the alert as BSE cases mount in Portugal
- 2: Strong support for youth exchange programmes
- 3: Mercury-sniffing dog demonstrates skills to MEPs
- 4: Council's failure to report on Tampere criticised
 - News report : 18-10-99
- 1: Employment guidelines must be tightened up
- 2: Working time directive should cover junior doctors after four years
- 3: Preliminary report on wandering plutonium due this week
- 4: Employment package on its way to Helsinki Summit
 - News report : 15-10-99
- 1: Extra funds for external action
- 2: ECB should publish minutes without names
- 3: Signing on to E-Commerce
- 4: MEPs and staff required to inform OLAF if they learn of fraud or corruption
 - News report : 14-10-99
- 1: Reconciliation the key to progress in Kosovo
- 2: Green light for inclusion of Turkey in Socrates programme
- 3: European audiovisual observatory
- 4: Call for "Mister Energy" in EP Buildings
 - News report : 13-10-99
- 1: Commission consumer plans "ambitious" but MEPs want action
- 2: Hush Kits: EU must stand firm in negotiations with the US
- 3: Transport of dangerous goods by rail
- 4: Recognition of Realities facing the fishing industry
- 5: EU/ECP Negotiations A dialogue for the deaf
 - News report : 12-10-99
- 1: Sakharov Prize -3 candidates put forward by Foreign Affairs committee
- 2: Culture 2000: budget remains sticking point
- 3: Improving cable car safety
- 4: "Good governance "at forefront of post-Lomé negotiations
 - News report : 06-10-99
- 1: POLITICAL GROUPS IN THE EP
 - News report : 30-09-99
- 1: Financial framework for EU's external action must be revised
- 2: Two candidates for Sakharov prize released
- 3: First conciliation on "Socrates II"
- 4: Patten reports on UN General Assembly meeting
 - News report : 29-09-99
- 1:Mr Prodi and Mme Loyola de Palacio at Conference of chairs of Committees
- 2:Europe on the offensive in WTO Millenium Round
- 3:Candidates for European Ombudsman
 - News report : 28-09-99
- 1:Noyer optimistic on economic prospects: euro interest: increase not ruled out
 - News report : 24-09-99
- 1: Tampere Summit should focus on issues of public concern: Commissioner Vitorino
- 2: Minister "hopeful" for taxation agreement
- 3: Commissioner criticised for outdated procedures in NGO co-financed projects
- 4: Important decisions on railway liberalisation announced
 - News report : 23-09-99
- 1: Stability pact: reconstruction of South East Europe
- 2: Finnish Presidency open to dialogue on preparations for IGC
- 3: Concrete proposals for action on Kyoto wanted
- 4: Hearings on competition policy -cautious welcome for reforms
- 5: Banking charges for transfers in the euro zone still high
- 6: EU-Morocco fisheries agreement
 - News report : 22-09-99
- 1:East Timor
- 2:Trench warfare looms between EP and Council on environment
- 3:Major questions remain to be solved in ACP-EU negotiations
- 4:Green light for SAVE and ALTENER energy programmes
 - News report : 21-09-99
- 1:Rapid appointment of Director of OLAF expected
- 2:Timetable and procedure for election of Ombusdman
- 3:Green light for trade agreement with South Africa
- 4:Commissioner Nielson confirms under- takings given at hearings
- 5:Conserving the heritage and environment of Valencia
 - News report : 16-09-99
- 1:Mrs Nicole Fontaine in Kosovo and FYROM from 20th to 22nd September 1999
 - News report : 08-09-99
- 1:Hearing: Mr Neil KINNOCK
- 2:letter LEGAL AFFAIRS/INTERNAL MARKET on hearing BOLKESTEIN
- 3:Letter CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS/ REGIONAL on hearing of Mr BARNIER
- 4:Letter BUDGETARY CONTROL on hearing of Mr Neil KINNOCK
 - News report : 07-09-99
- 1: Dawn of new era in Parliament-Commission relations
 - News report : 06-09-99
- 1:hearing of M. Frits BOLKESTEIN
- 2:hearing of M. Michel BARNIER
- 3:letter on the hearing of M. Antonio VITORINO
 - News report : 03-09-99
- 1:hearing of M. David BYRNE
- 2:hearing of M. Antonio VITORINO
- 3:ECONOMIC/MONETARY AFFAIRS letter on the hearing of M. Mario MONTI
- 4:INDUSTRY/RESEARCH letter on the hearing of M. Philippe BUSQUIN
- 5:FOREIGN AFFAIRS letter on the hearing of M. Chris PATTEN
- 6:CULTURE/YOUTH letter on the hearing of Mrs Viviane REDING
- 7:INDUSTRY/EXTERNAL TRADE letter on the hearing of M. Pascal LAMY
- 8:ENVIRONMENT letter on the hearing of Mrs Margo WALLSTRÖM
- 9:ENVIRONMENT letter on the hearing of M. David Byrne
 - News report : 02-09-99
- 1:HEARING of M. Chris PATTEN
- 2:HEARING of Mrs Viviane REDING
- 3:HEARING of M. Pascal LAMY
- 4:HEARING of Mrs Margot Wallström
- 5:EMPLOYMENT letter on the hearing of of Mrs Ana DIAMANTOPOULOS
- 6: FOREIGN AFFAIRS letter on the hearing of of Mr Günther VERHEUGEN
- 7:INDUSTRY/EXTERNAL TRADE letter on the hearing of Mr LIIKANEN
- 8:ECONOMIC/MONETARY AFFAIRS letter on the hearing of Mr SOLBES MIRA
 - News report : 01-09-99
- 1:HEARINGS: Mr Mario MONTI Mr
- 2:HEARING of Mr. Günther VERHEUGEN
- 3:HEARING of Mr.Philippe BUSQUIN
- 4:HEARING of M. Pedro SOLBES MIRA
- 5:Letter BUDGETS on hearing of Ms SCHREYER
- 6:Letter REGIONAL POLICY on hearing of Ms LOYOLA de PALACIO
- 7:Letter DEVELOPMENT on hearing of Mr Poul NIELSON
- 8:Letter AGRICULTURE on hearing of Mr Franz FISCHLER
- 9:Letter FISHERIES on hearing of Mr Franz FISCHLER
 - News report : 31-08-99
- 1:HEARINGS: Liikanen, Nielson, Schreyer and Diamantopoulou
 - News report : 30-08-99
- 1:HEARINGS: Ms. DE PALACIO, Mr FISCHLER
 - News report : 26-08-99
- 1: Committee of Experts - Second report
 - News report : 09-08-99
- 1: The death of the two young Guineans - President of the European Parliament
 - News report : 05-08-99
- 1:Parliamentary meetings in connection with the new Commission
 - News report : 28-07-99
- 1:Formation of Technical Group of Independent Members rejected
 - News report : 16-07-99
- 1:Funding for reconstruction in Kosovo
 - News report : 12-07-99
- 1:New Commission
- 2:Names of Parliament's building in Brussels
- 3:Press conferences
 - News report : 05-07-99
- 1:Opening Louise Weiss building (IPE IV) for Parliament's constituent session
 - News report : 02-07-99
- 1:Parliament approves members of EU anti- fraud office's supervisory committee
 - News report : 29-06-99
- 1:President of Parliament calls on Turkey to commute death sentence on Oçalan
 - News report : 25-06-99
- 1:European Parliament backs aid for Parliament of Bosnia-Herzegovina
 - News report : 17-06-99
- 1:Parliament gets tough on dioxin contamination
 - News report : 09-06-99
 - News report : 02-06-99
- 1:Gil-Robles addresses Cologne Summit
 - News report : 04-05-99
- 1:Composition of the European Parliament
 - News report : 28-04-99
- 1:Mr Gil-Robles addresses Bulgarian Parliament:
 - News report : 27-04-99
- 1:Statement by Mr Gil-Robles on the draft statute for MEPs
- 2:"EU must play the central role in reconstruction of the Balkans"
- 3:The black economy - The most dynamic sector of the economy?
- 4:Dispute about equal treatment for schools in Italy reaches Europe
 - News report : 26-04-99
- 1:Consumers should have the right to avoid electronic junk mail
- 2:Leonardo II moves ahead
- 3:Millenium round must have social and ethical dimension
- 4:Developing countries must be integrated into world economy
- 5:What future for the environment?
 - News report : 23-04-99
- 1:Council should try a little harder re agreement on new financial perspective
- 2:Statute for MEPs "The Council is exceeding its powers"
- 3:Agenda 2000: Social Fund reform approved
- 4:MEPs call for beefed-up European Employment Pact
- 5:The structural funds and Agenda 2000
- 6:Transport Committee: Green light for the charging of heavy goods vehicles
 - News report : 22-04-99
- 1:Greater parliamentary dimension needed after enlargement
- 2:"Community method" proposed for next IGC in 2001
- 3:MEPs swallow CAP reforms: 'We can't open up Pandora's box again'
- 4:Recommendation for environmental inspections changed into directive
- 5:Conciliation agreement third directive on recognition of qualificatios (crafts)
- 6:REX committee takes no decision on TACIS
- 7:Ban on hormones
- 8:Changes to rules on giving, postponing and refusing the budget discharge
- 9:Some stability programmes 'over-optimistic'
- 10:Loopholes allow dumping of oil platforms at sea
- 11:Protection of tropical forests requires local communities' active participation
 - News report : 21-04-99
- 1:Selling mortgages on the net: consumer safeguards
- 2:Committee of independent experts Mr Tizzano replaces Mr Carrillo Salcedo
- 3:Call for closer EU-Russia links and a strengthened CFSP
- 4:Objectives and priorities set up for development cooperation with S Africa
- 5:Football - Media ownership a competition policy concern
- 6:"Our doors are always open to the EU" says North Korean Minister
- 7:Financial instrument for fisheries guidance : Council accepts EP's approach
- 8:Fisheries Call for sanctions to be harmonised
- 9:Women's Rights : Public hearing on mainstreaming of equal opportunities
 - News report : 20-04-99
- 1:Green light for independent anti-fraud office
- 2:Kosovo: Milosevic seen as threat to European integration
- 3:Budgetary Control: Closing accounts for 1996 and postponement of 1997 discharge
- 4:Pre-accession strategy: Coordinating assistance to the applicant countries
- 5:Duisenberg expects value of Euro to increase in the long term
- 6:De Silguy: Need to go back to fiscal rigour
 - News report : 06-04-99
- 1:Working time directive No more sectors to be excluded
- 2:ACP-EU Relations
 - News report : 31-03-99
- 1:Berlin compromise on budget funding for 2000-2006 seen as unacceptable
- 2:Guarded welcome for Agenda 2000
- 3:Common fisheries policy and Agenda 2000
- 4:MEPs press for quick Council decision on protection of refugees
- 5:Single directive for hazardous and non-hazardous waste
- 6:Curbing oil spills and radioactive pollution at sea
- 7:Second stab at an energy tax
- 8:Consultation and information at work
 - News report : 30-03-99
- 1:Special meeting of Conference of Presidents on April 7th
- 2:Foreign Affairs Committee to hold extraordinary meeting on Kosovo
- 3:Economic Guidelines "Where are the jobs?" ask MEPs ......
- 4:State aids still a cause for concern Karel van Miert: Rover deal "unhealthy"
- 5:Swedish Government still not committed to joining EMU
- 6:No changes to farm-price package for 1999/2000
- 7:Independence of ECB must be safeguarded
- 8:Call for an undivided society Equal opportunities for women and men
 - News report : 29-03-99
- 1:Interparliamentary conference on freedom, security and justice
- 2:Sustainable cities: The European Parliament meets the city of Brussels
 - News report : 25-03-99
- 1:Foreign affairs: Declaration on Kosovo
- 2:1996 budget discharge: "Parliament can close procedure ..........."
- 3:Go ahead to cooperation agreement with Turkey but human rights a priority
- 4:Social cost of enlargement reforms must not be overlooked
- 5:Electronic money: call for greater consumer protection
- 6:Regional affairs: Decentralisation in Poland
- 7:New institutional arrangements needed for external economic relations
- 8:Institutional affairs: The Commission's implementing role and commitology
 - News report : 24-03-99
- 1:President of Parliament: nomination of candidate for Presidency of Commission
- 2:Go ahead for EU support for human rights work
 - News report : 22-03-99
- 1:Managing immigration and asylum
- 2:Petitions committee calls for immediate halt to silicone implants
- 3:Aftermath of the Donana Park disaster
- 4:"Don't mess with human rights", says Mr André Soulier
 - News report : 19-03-99
- 1:After-sale guarantees will protect cross-border shoppers
- 2:Conciliation accord satisfies EP demand for pesticide-free baby foods
- 3:Budget guidelines for 2000: Rigour, quality control and adequate resources
- 4:Funding for Trans-European networks Euro5.5 billion needed for 2000-2006
- 5:Commission accepts Parliament's proposals on the FIFG
- 6:Arms sales - support for EU controls
- 7:Competition policy - new rules to affect pubs and petrol stations
- 8:EU citizens should be more interested in each other's culture
 - News report : 18-03-99
- 1:Committee rejects proposal to extend Eurodac system to illegal immigrants
- 2:The Commission will carry out its duties, says Sir Leon Brittan
- 3:Crackdown on pollution from power plants
- 4:No export of hazardous waste to developing countries
- 5:The reception, integration and voluntary repatriation of refugees
- 6:"Ethical watchdog" needed to follow developments in new technologies
- 7:Parliamentary scrutiny of defence policy is essential
- 8:Poverty can be eliminated
 - News report : 17-03-99
- 1:Schröder and Gil-Robles to meet Friday: timetable for appointing new Commission
- 2:Anti-fraud office Parliament's persistence pays off
- 3:Time for a "Root and Branch reform" says Commissioner Brittan
- 4:The World Monetary Order: A tri-polar system
- 5:Towards a common transport infrastructure charging framework
- 6:Committee urges closer links with North Korea
- 7:Development Commitee: measures to strengthen democracy
 - News report : 16-03-99
- 1:C of P: replace current Commission before June elections
- 2:EU-Latin America interparliamentary conference
- 3:Transport Committee: a definitive no to 44 tons heavy goods vehicles
 - News report : 01-03-99
- 1:Energy Committee welcomes multi-annual programmes for energy efficiency
- 2:Structural policies and the fishing industry
 - News report : 25-02-99
- 1:A strategy for securing nuclear safety in Central and East European countries
- 2:Green light to aid to Bosnia
 - News report : 24-02-99
- 1:Mediterranean process must be speeded up
- 2:Ms Cresson faces cultural affairs committee
- 3:MEPs unconvinced by Edith Cresson's explanations
- 4:Funding and operation of groups of MEPs to be more transparent
- 5:Decision on a statute for MEP's Assistants deferred to plenary
- 6:Utility models: simplified protection for technical inventions
- 7:Call to block funds for Korean nuclear dismantling programme
- 8:Developing countries to be integrated into world trade system
- 9:Local leaders and the new regional policy
- 10:Horizontal approach to fisheries
 - News report : 23-02-99
- 1:The BSE crisis is not over, MEPs warn
- 2:Hope for those who suffer from "rare" diseases
- 3:Lively debate on hunting
- 4:Charter for a non-racist society
- 5:Free movement of goods
- 6:Seminar on the European elections
 - News report : 19-02-99
- 1:Product liability extended on farm products
- 2:Combatting European crime requires European public prosecution
- 3:NGOs request urgent clarification of Commission's adm. and finan. procedures
- 4:Combined transport: EP and Commission start informal talks
 - News report : 18-02-99
- 1:Monetary policies must be balanced against macroeconomic measures
- 2:Transport committee: green light for rail liberalisation in stages
- 3:Increased funding for Socrates II
- 4:"Daphne" won't celebrate women's day
- 5:Much more progress needed on equal opportunities
- 6:Job creation - UK, Netherlands, Ireland and Denmark the best - says Commissioner
- 7:Support for closer EU-India ties but worries over nuclear weapons and poverty
- 8:No humanitarian solution to political crises
- 9:EU crucial to Middle East peace process
- 10:Reform of UN needed to tackle globalisation
 - News report : 17-02-99
- 1:Arrest of Abdullah Oçalan
- 2:Euro and transaction costs - the Commission launches an enquiry
- 3:Transport committee demands voyage data recorders on all types of ro-ro ferries
- 4:FYROM keen to be part of Europe
 - News report : 05-02-99
- 1:Conciliators crack down on rare and pollution-linked diseases
- 2:Council accepts EP's main demand on animal welfare in zoos
 - News report : 03-02-99
- 1:Scrapping old bangers
- 2:Tougher monitoring of greenhouse gases proposed
- 3:Germany will phase out nuclear power stations
- 4:Culture capitals - way to negotiation now open
 - News report : 29-01-99
- 1:Addendum to News Report no. 99.009
 - News report : 28-01-99
- 1:Committee of Independent Experts chosen by Conference of Presidents
- 2:Members of Committee of Independent Experts
- 3:European Works Councils: A step forward but not far enough
 - News report : 27-01-99
- 1:A different approach to reforming the common organisation of the wine market
- 2:Rex Committee hears both sides in banana conflict
- 3:Admission to the European Union of nationals of non-EU countries
 - News report : 26-01-99
- 1:1996 Budget discharge: appointment of committee of independent experts
- 2:Commission President must not be nominated just before elections
- 3:Support for crackdown on savings havens
- 4:Council faces paralysis, say MEPs
- 5:EU-Israel agreement for scientific cooperation approved
- 6:Turkey to take part in Socrates and youth programmes
 - News report : 22-01-99
- 1:Parliament to be more closely involved in support for Middle East peace process
- 2:Safety first should apply to genetically modified organisms
- 3:Commissioner Monti: abolition of tax on duty free sales
- 4:Council shares EP concern on animal testing
 - News report : 21-01-99
- 1:Millenium concern
- 2:Call for grace period in national patent laws
- 3:MEPs call for "Federal style" budgetary system and alignment of taxation
- 4:Landfill of waste "The option of last resort"
- 5:Ad hoc EU-wide roadside inspections for lorries
- 6:Rules on visas in the EU
- 7:A European civilian peace corps
- 8:Corrigendum
 - News report : 20-01-99
- 1:Call for protection and payment for works published on the Internet
- 2:Budget discharge procedures for 1996 and 1997
- 3:Support for shift of tax burden from labour to energy
- 4:Parliament excluded from decisions to suspend Lome Convention
- 5:Special aid to traditional ACP banana producers
- 6:Better procedure needed for recovery of EAGGF claims
- 7:Women's health
- 8:Parliament and Council on same wavelength on development cooperation
 - News report : 19-01-99
- 1:The euro and counterfeiting
- 2:Changeover to the euro will be a huge technical challenge
- 3:"Unilateral retaliation is unacceptable"
 - News report : 18-01-99
- 1:ECB President Wim Duisenberg: "No early circulation of euro notes and coins"
 - News report : 06-01-99
- 1:Cresson rejects all accusations
- 2:Moratinos calls for greater political will to boost Middle East peace process
- 3:Commission urged to revitalise tax proposals related to carbon dioxides
- 4:Committee calls for family policy guidelines
- 5:Shipments of waste to non-OECD countries
- 6:MEPs want EP involved in alcohol labelling
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