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European Parliament

Politics

European Parliament president thanks Ireland for response to Ukrainian refugee crisis

Roberta Metsola said Irish people have a long history of showing empathy, of caring, of standing up
  • Michael Brennan
  • February 2, 2023
Politics

New EU law would stop banks and insurers from penalising cancer survivors

The proposed new directive would require companies to disregard the medical history of cancer survivors after a period of time when issuing insurance plans or loans
  • Daniel Murray
  • January 31, 2023
Interview

‘This story has been created that we’ve gone to Europe and gone mad’ – Mick Wallace and Clare Daly

Defiant, humorous and articulate, MEPs Mick Wallace and Clare Daly are a unique political double act. In this interview, they defend their controversial foreign policy positions which have made them increasingly polarising figures in the European Parliament, and turn the spotlight instead on their critics
  • Daniel Murray
  • December 18, 2022
European Parliament

Editorial: EU must stop the rot exposed by MEP bribery scandal

Guilty politicians must be held to account, and the European institutions must be reformed to ensure transparency and ethical behaviour
  • Business Post
  • December 17, 2022
Europe

Qatargate: Shock but no surprise for some as bribery scandal shakes European Parliament

Emily O’Reilly, the European Ombudsman, says more needs to be spent on anti-corruption efforts following a number of arrests and charges arising from alleged bribery and illicit lobbying activities on behalf of Qatari interests
  • Daniel Murray
  • December 17, 2022
European Union

‘Parliament isn’t riddled with corruption, but self-policing doesn’t work’ – EU Ombudsman

Emily O’Reilly says real action must follow the “shock-horror“ reaction of her colleagues in Brussels to a recent corruption scandal at the heart of the European Union
  • Daniel Murray
  • December 16, 2022
EU

EU parliament votes to remove Greek MEP as vice president amid Qatar corruption scandal

Eva Kaili was arrested last Friday by Belgian police as part of a major investigation into alleged corruption in the European Parliament on behalf of Qatari interests
  • Daniel Murray
  • December 13, 2022
EU

FG MEPs warn green laws could put extra burden on industry

New legislation should be be considered on a ‘case-by-case basis’ as concern grows in Brussels over inflation and supply chains
  • Daniel Murray
  • July 16, 2022
Gender equality

Women must comprise 40% of public company boards by 2026

European Parliament has approved the Women on Boards directive 10 years after it was first proposed
  • Sarah Taaffe-Maguire
  • June 10, 2022
EU

EU should have acted more quickly at start of Russian invasion, parliament president says

Roberta Metsola said that the EU’s economic dependence on Russian fossil fuel imports had made the adoption of further sanctions ‘increasingly difficult’
  • Sarah Taaffe-Maguire
  • June 8, 2022

MEP calls for EU state aid rules to adapt to housing crisis

Kim van Sparrentak acted as rapporteur for an affordable housing report produced by the European Parliament in 2020, which said that European fiscal policies were restricting member states from investing sufficiently in housing provision
  • Killian Woods
  • December 5, 2021

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