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CAP: Labour MEPs Disappointed by Overall Lack of Radical Reform
2013-03-14 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Following votes in the European Parliament on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) yesterday (13 March), Labour MEP Brian Simpson welcomed the greater transparency on agriculture spending but said he would have liked to see much more radical reform overall.
MEPs set up new EU budget battle
2013-03-13 14:41:43| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Euro MPs demand further negotiations on the EU's multi-year budget, amid tensions with austerity-minded governments.
MEPs back major EU fishing reform
2013-02-06 14:06:45| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The European Parliament approves a major reform of fishing to end the wasteful discarding of dead fish and help depleted stocks to recover.
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United Kingdom: EU referendum: Climate efforts could be 'collateral damage', warn MEPs
2013-01-24 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EurActiv: Fears are growing in Brussels that climate policy could become a political football in any referendum on EU membership, following British Prime Minister David Cameron's declaration of intent on Wednesday to hold an in/out poll. The UK Independent Party (UKIP), which has links to the eurosceptic right of Cameron's Conservatives, launched a petition on 21 January calling for the EU's climate and energy targets to be suspended. The petition's professed objectives -- to prevent carbon leakage,...
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MEPs Set for Marathon CAP Vote
2013-01-17 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
EU - The English National Farmers Union has urged Members of European Parliament (MEPs) to strip out the bureaucracy of CAP reform proposals and focus on providing the conditions for farmers to thrive, ahead of a marathon vote on CAP reform in the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee next week.