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BRUSSELS - The European Parliament has passed a resolution tabled by left-wing and liberal deputies urging Hungary to respect EU laws and values or risk having the EU assembly start a formal investigation into serious breaches of EU values, a never-befor
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BRUSSELS - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti charmed all major political parties in the European Parliament on Wednesday (15 February), pledging to defend EU institutions at a time when national governments are increasingly blaming Brussels for austerit
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BRUSSELS - Pressure is mounting on Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to publicly distance himself from a website, calling on citizens to file complaints about people from central and eastern Europe residing in the Netherlands. The quintessential image of t
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The European Parliament's Liberal and socialist leaders, Guy Verhofstadt and Hannes Swoboda, gave their support to the Romanian opposition during a public hearing over the democratic situation there, as protests continue in Bucharest over an unpopular he
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The European Union's (EU) hush-hush strategy to saddle taxpayers with ultimately trillions of Euros of debt seems to have run into some roadblocks as Eurozone finance ministers have not signed, but only "endorsed" the still unavailable European Stability
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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe which opened in Strasbourg on Monday has no plans to spoil its relations with Russia despite attempts by some factions to initiate an emergency debate on the situation in Russia between the parliamentar
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The European Union is grappling with a right-wing government in Hungary in a test of its will to prevent former Communist states from sliding into authoritarianism. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is under attack for ramming through laws and a new
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(BRUSSELS) - European finance ministers launch another week of talks Monday, after which they hope a deal with banks to slash Greece's debts and agreement on a new balanced budgets treaty will mark a turning-point in the debt crisis. There are fresh head
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BRUSSELS - Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban defended his country's new constitution before the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday (18 January), saying it is based on fundamental values of democracy and freedom. His unscheduled trip to th
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(STRASBOURG) - Hungary's premier Viktor Orban rejected charges of authoritarianism while seeking to head off EU legal action for flouting democracy in a fiery European parliament debate Wednesday. Orban, in Strasbourg to defend his government, pledged to
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Hungary's controversialrightwing leader, Viktor Orban, has come under strong attack for his "national revolution" policies widely seen as a campaign to entrench his power and suppress opposition. The Hungarian prime minister took the unusual step of trav
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(STRASBOURG) - Hungary's premier Viktor Orban sought Wednesday to head off EU legal action for flouting democratic values, as he was likened to Cuba's Fidel Castro and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez in a fiery European parliament debate. Orban, in Strasbourg to
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German social democrat Martin Schulz was elected as the new President of the European Parliament on 17 January 2012. He replaced outgoing president Jerzy Buzek, during the parliament's mid-term elections. Mr Schulz received 387 votes in the secret ballot
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Trading the position back and forth like this has always been easy for the two groups because the position of the parliament's president hasn't traditionally been one that promises much power. Indeed, it hasn't played any important role in the power stru
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As the weakest of the EU's three major institutions, the European Parliament has often been viewed as little more than a rubber stamp for the others. But Martin Schulz, the German Social Democrat who will become its president next week, plans to change t
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The three MEPs, all from different parties, warned
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This is the first time in years where this sort of meeting has been held. Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte, has offered to host another such meeting later this year. The two key themes of the meeting were (i) the need for EU unity at this difficult
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Members of the European Parliament involved in drawing up a new treaty designed to stop countries that use the euro from overspending on Wednesday slammed the latest draft. The three MEPs, all from different parties, warned that that the
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