MEP and UKIP leader Nigel Farage on Wednesday delivered another major tirade against EU President Herman van Rompuy and, along the way, severely insulted Belgium and Greece during a plenary debate in the European Parliament. Farage said Van Rompuy had the "charisma of a damp rag" and the appearance of a "low-grade bank clerk."
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi made headlines on Saturday by taking a mobile phonecall when arriving at the NATO summit, humiliating German Chancellor Angela Merkel was waiting to greet him on the red carpet.
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The European Parliament is concerned about the increase in HIV/Aids infections in countries bordering on the EU. This programme looks at the situation in the Ukraine. (Parlamento, 2007)
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The European Union has produced this video to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the euro on the 1st of January 2012.
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It is not an April Fool's joke. It is finally happening. After years of talks, the EU will launch on the 1st of April the European Citizens initiative. The programme will enable people to propose new laws. Citizens will need to collect one million signatures from at least 7 different member states. The initiative hopes to build a stronger link between Brussels and the people on the streets. Surveys often show that Europeans think there is a democratic deficit in Europe. Eurocrats claim it will increase the quality of democracy and the transparency in the decision-making process. From legalizing Gay marriage to improving the situation of media freedom across Europe. Already dozens of petitions have been put forward by various NGO's and now are collecting signatures. Opponents of the initiative complain about how strict the conditions are. The concept of the European Citizens Initiative was first introduced in the European Constitution, rejected in 2005 by referenda in France and the Netherlands. The idea then was put forward again in the Lisbon Treaty in 2009. It has taken more than two years to develop that idea into a precise mechanism that now takes effect.
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eux.tv This video shows a 1976 interview with Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, now President of the European Commission, as a young, passionate Maoist student leader in Portugal, talking about a resolution adopted by the Revolutionary Students Commission on access to universities in Portugal. This was two years after the revolution. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Presentation of the outcome of the European Council at the EP 27/10/2011 © EU Referring to the summit meetings of the European Council and the euro area of 23 and 26 October 2011, President Barroso explained the bold decisions taken over the last days based on the Commission's Roadmap to Stability and Growth of 12 October. "Today we have a more ambitious platform on which to build Europe's growth" he said. He outlined the details of the agreement on Greece, the leveraging of the EFSF by four or five times, the measures to restore confidence in the banking sector as well as concrete ways to boost growth. In this context he expressed satisfaction about Italy's commitment to further structural reforms, while emphasising the need to fully implement them according to a clear timetable. He also announced a Commission package of proposals for November in order to further deepen Europe's economic governance. He was pleased with the strengthened role of the Commission in monitoring and coordinating economic and budgetary policies in Europe and ensuring coherence between the euro area and the other EU members. He informed about his intention to reinforce the role of Olli Rehn as Commissioner for the euro. President Barroso repeated his call for building a true economic union to complement a monetary union including -- if needed -- through Treaty change, while ensuring the unity of all Member States. With a view to next week's G20 summit in Cannes, he underlined that a Europe that ...
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Report by Raymond Frenken, EUX.TV Script: First, there was ClimateGate - the scandal with hacked emails suggesting scientists have abused data for research on global warming. Now, another international climate scandal is emerging that may have an impact on the talks in Copenhagen. Europes top police body Europol, the closest thing that European Union has to the American Fbi, has exposed a massive fraud with the unions official market in carbon credits, the Emission Trading System. The fraud is costing tax payers in a handful of European countries more than five billion euro - 7 billion dollars - and raises doubts about the effectiveness of carbon trading as a measure to curb emissions. Europol director Rob Wainwright issued the following statement: These criminal activities endanger the credibility of the European Union Emission Trading System and lead to the loss of significant tax revenue for governments. Police authorities in Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom have worked together in what Europol calls a process to identify and disrupt the organised criminal structures behind these fraud schemes. Lets see if we can explain the scheme, using this graphic provided by Europol. The fraud is based on a what is tax experts and investigators call as a Carroussel fraud with missing traders. This carroussel generates money by stealing value added tax from governments. The first step of the criminals is to open a trading account with a ...
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Karel de Gucht speaks to press on EU hearings Country: Belgium Position: Trade Commissioner The European Parliament hearing for Karel De Gucht went smoothly, on 12 January, with his main challenges being to set out his vision for handling the trade commissioners portfolio following the Lisbon Treaty and the financial crisis. The former member of the European Parliament, outgoing development commissioner and former Belgian foreign minister was barely quizzed on his personal qualifications for the job, rather his approaches to negotiating the complex and often conflicting demands of the EUs 27 member states, its trade partners and the developing nations it aims to support. For more: europolitics.info
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Click here to participate in the EUXTV survey: bit.ly UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, member of the European Parliament, audits the Barroso Commission during a debate in Strasbourg.
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