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Info and facts on 'Europeanb> Parliament'

For instance, in 2004, the number of seats in the Europeanb> Parliament was temporarily raised to 788 to accommodate representatives from the ten states that joined the EU on 1st May, but it was subsequently reduced to 732 following the elections in June.
In some respects, the Europeanb> Parliament and the Council of Ministers resemble the upper and lower houses of a bicameral (additional info and facts about bicameral) legislature.
The number of observers and their method of appointment (usually by national parliaments) is laid down in the joining countries' Treaties of Accession.

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/e/eu/european_parliament.htm (2101 words)



Member of the Europeanb> Parliament - definition of Member of the Europeanb> Parliament in Encyclopedia

When Parliament was first established, MEPs were appointed by member states in national delegations.
Among the 177 MEPs with such experience elected in 1999 were six prime ministers and three former members of the Europeanb> Commission.
The so-called dual mandate, where an individual is a member of both his or her national parliament and the Europeanb> Parliament, is officially discouraged and has been prohibited by a number of EU countries, most recently Italy.

http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Member_of_the_European_Parliament (1818 words)



A Concise Encyclopedia of the Europeanb> Union --E--

The Europeanb> Council (not to be confused with the Council of Ministers) refers to the twice-yearly, or occasionally more frequent, summit meetings of EU heads of government (plus the directly elected presidents of France and Finland) and the president of the Commission.
The Europeanb> Parliament also pressed its case for an oversight role and France suddenly turned the choice of the ECB's first head into a political controversy, unsuccessfully demanding the position for Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the Banque de France.
The consequence of the scandal was to strengthen the relative power of the Parliament, but also to vest more authority in the president, on the grounds that he could hardly assume responsibility for the Commission without having greater influence over the running of its affairs and the selection of the key 'ministers'.

http://www.euro-know.org/dictionary/e.html (11086 words)



DEsite : Europeanb> Parliament

Parliament is led by a president and a ´Bureau´.
This regulatory body consists of the President of the Europeanb> Parliament, fourteen vice-presidents, and five quaestors with an advisory voice.
Depending on the subject of the proposal by the Commission, the parliamentary committee responsible for the policy field the subject is related to prepare a common position for the Europeanb> Parliament.

http://drcwww.kub.nl/dbi/instructie/eu/en/T13.htm (922 words)



PARLIAMENT and EU

In addition to this, amendments to the treaties and certain other fundamental decisions of the EU must be approved by the national parliaments of the member states.
The Europeanb> Parliament is the people´s representative assembly of the EU.
The decisions of Parliament relating to the approval and ratification of amendments to the treaties of the EU are prepared by the Foreign Affairs Committee.

http://www.eduskunta.fi/efakta/opas/tiedotus/esiteen7.htm (2067 words)



EUROPA - Europeanb> Union institutions and other bodies - Europeanb> Parliament

In 2004, Josep Borrell Fontelles was elected President of the Europeanb> Parliament.
The present parliament, elected in June 2004, has 732 members from all 25 EU countries.
When a new Commission takes office, its members are nominated by the EU member state governments but they cannot be appointed without Parliament’s approval.

http://europa.eu.int/institutions/parliament/index_en.htm (869 words)



Europeanb> Parliament on Encyclopedia.com

Europeanb> Parliament approves laws establishing EU-wide supervision of reinsurers
August 1981.Menahem BEGIN takes his seat as Leader of the Likud Party, in the Knesset (Parliament), after gaining the majority at the recent elections.
The Europeanb> Parliament was founded in 1958 as the Europeanb> Parliamentary Assembly, whose members were chosen by the parliaments of the nations belonging to the three treaty organizations that were later merged to form what is now the EU.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/E/EuropnP1.asp (692 words)



Group of the Europeanb> People's Party (Christian Democrats) and Europeanb> Democrats - Homepage

A Europeanb> Union Election Observation Mission was deployed to Venezuela on 7 November 2005 to observe the Parliamentary Elections (National Assembly, Latin-American Parliament and Andean Parliament) of 4 December.
Hans-Gert Poettering, the Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the Europeanb> Parliament met the former Prime Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres on 14 December 2005.
Member of the EPP Group in the Europeanb> Parliament from 1979 until 1999 and former Belgian Minister for Economic Affairs from 1975 until 1977, died on April 4th, 2005

http://www.epp-ed.org (652 words)



Europeanb> Union Internet Resources

Database of questions posed by the Europeanb> Parliament to the Council and the Commission, searchable by author, political group, etc.
EU institution that proposes legislation to Parliament and the Council, administers and implements Community policies, enforces Community law (jointly with the Court of Justice) and negotiates international agreements.
Europeanb> Body for the Enhancement of Judicial Co-operation

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/govinfo/intl/gov_eu.html (1707 words)



Europeanb> Parliament Resolution

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Commission, the Council and the Government and Parliament of the Russian Federation.
Europeanb> Parliament resolution on the jailing of the Russian military journalist Grigorii Pasko and the closure of TV-6
Calls on the Russian authorities to ensure that Mr Pasko's appeal is heard swiftly and is handled in accordance with the general principles of the rule of law which Russia is obliged to respect under the Europeanb> Convention on Human Rights and the Russian constitution;

http://www.bellona.org/en/international/russia/envirorights/pasko/22874.html (1039 words)



Independence and Democracy - encyclopedia article about Independence and Democracy.

She stood successfully for to became a Member of the Europeanb> Parliament for Ireland South in the 2004 Europeanb> elections.
It had three members of the 1999 Europeanb> Parliament who sat in the Europe of Democracies and Diversities group.
Europeanb> political parties Europeanb> political party, or formally a political party at Europeanb> level, is a type of political party organization in the Europeanb> Union, eligible to receive funding from the Union.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Independence+and+Democracy (1039 words)



Europeanb> Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For instance, in 2004, the number of seats in the Europeanb> Parliament was temporarily raised to 788 to accommodate representatives from the ten states that joined the EU on 1st May, but it was subsequently reduced to 732 following the elections in June.
In some respects, the Europeanb> Parliament and the Council of Ministers resemble the upper and lower houses of a bicameral legislature.
Parliament also supervises the Europeanb> Commission, must approve all appointments to it, and can dismiss it with a vote of censure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament (1039 words)



Slashdot Software Patents Circumvent Europeanb> Parliament

So the Council currently has an ugly text on the table which is no longer supported by a qualified majority in any way, but by means of diplomatic pressure on Poland and others the Dutch presidency (lead in this case by Minister Brinkhorst) is trying everything it can to push it through nevertheless.
In many cases, Europeanb> governments are formed either directly out of the elected body of parliament itself (as in the British model) or out of some more complex relationship that certainly includes the directly elected house of parliament and a democratically elected executive (such as the French system).
The europeanb> council is at odds with the parliament concerning their stance on software patents.

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/12/13/1248202.shtml?tid=155&tid=219 (8878 words)



Europeanb> Parliament

Today the Europeanb> Parliament, as an equal partner with the Council of Ministers, passes the majority of Europeanb> laws- laws that affect the lives of Europe's citizens.
As stated, the Europeanb> Parliament has 626 Members.
The first direct elections to the Europeanb> Parliament were held in June 1979 when, 34 years after the end of Second World War, for the first time in history, the peoples of the nations of Europe, once torn apart by war, went to the polls to elect the members of a single parliament.

http://www.gm-unccd.org/field/Multi/EU/OP_Par.htm (616 words)



The Midwest Model Europeanb> Union

The Europeanb> Commission is the executive arm of the Union, has the sole right to initiate EU law and policies, and is responsible for ensuring that member states implement those laws and policies.
The core of EU-Midwest is a simulation of the bi-annual meeting of the Europeanb> Council, involving the heads of government and foreign ministers of the EU member states.
Europeanb> Council decisions are not legally binding, but are binding in a moral, political and pragmatic sense.

http://www.iupui.edu/~modeleu/guidelines.htm (616 words)



Europeanb> Parliament

This was then extended by the treaty of Amsterdam, and this 'codecision&; put the Europeanb> Parliament, and the Council of Ministers on an equal level in terms of community legislation.
This method means that many acts are joint acts with the Council of Ministers and the Europeanb> Parliament.
Surprisingly, although parliament is extremely large, with all their members, and the number of people in the secretariat, parliament still has only a small budget in Europe.

http://www.coursework.info/i/5157.html (569 words)



Another Day, Another EU Crisis - The Europeanb> Parliament takes on the Europeanb> Commission—and wins. By Scott MacMillan

Buttiglione, the proposed commissioner for "justice, freedom and security," had raised the hackles of many members of Europeanb> Parliament (MEPs) by calling homosexuality "a sin" and for his conservative Catholic views on marriage and motherhood.
Facing a resounding "no" in the legislature, José Manuel Barroso of Portugal, the incoming president of the commission, withdrew his entire proposed slate of commissioners.
The commission and the council are constantly vying with the Europeanb> Parliament for power, and this week's events are seen as a victory for the latter.

http://www.slate.com/id/2108805 (730 words)



A Concise Encyclopedia of the Europeanb> Union --S--

His major work as an MEP was the 1984 Draft Treaty establishing the Europeanb> Union, which reflected his view of the Europeanb> Parliament as a potential constitution-making body (or 'constituent assembly'), able to enact a new constitutional Treaty if ratified by a majority of the large member states.
Of the other institutions, Luxembourg plays host to the Europeanb> Court of Justice, the Europeanb> Investment Bank and the Court of Auditors; Frankfurt houses the Europeanb> Central Bank; Brussels is the seat for the Commission and the Council of Ministers; and other lesser offices or agencies are spread around various cities.
The Danish referendum's rejection of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 led to a protestation by the Europeanb> Council that subsidiarity was a genuine principle and 'excessive centralisation' was not Europe's intention.

http://www.euro-know.org/dictionary/s.html (730 words)



News - Headlines

Europeanb> Parliament Information Offices: Serving the public and the media
Europeanb> Parliament President Josep Borrell presented the 2005 Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought during Wednesday's plenary session in Strasbourg.
Information Offices situated in the capitals of EU members are important in explaining the work of the Europeanb> Parliament to the general public and the media.

http://www.europarl.eu.int/news/public/default_en.htm (403 words)



Legislation governing elections to the Europeanb> Parliament: By country (2)

A Europeanb> mandate is incompatible with the office of Chancellor (or Deputy Chancellor) of Justice, parliamentary Ombudsman (or Deputy Ombudsman), and judge of the Supreme Court or the Supreme Administrative Court.
The elections to the Europeanb> Parliament are governed by the law of 23 March 1989 as amended by that of 16 July 1993 on the federal structure of the State.
Irish electoral law for elections to the Europeanb> Parliament is governed by the Europeanb> Assembly Elections Act 1977, the Europeanb> Assembly (Irish representatives) Act 1979, the Europeanb> Assembly Elections Act 1984 (Acts of the Oireachtas 1977, 1979 and 1984), the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1986, the Electoral Act 1992 and the Europeanb> Election Act 1993.

http://www.europarl.eu.int/workingpapers/poli/w13/country_en.htm (403 words)



Europeanb> Parliament election, 1994 (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This was the first election with 87 MEPs, the Europeanb> Parliamentary Elections Act 1993 had increased the number of seats for the UK from 81.
The Europeanb> Parliament Election, 1994 was the fourth Europeanb> election to be held in the United Kingdom.
This was the first Europeanb> election the UK Independence Party competed in and the first Europeanb> election the Liberal Democrats won seats.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament_election,_1994_(UK) (223 words)



Legislation governing elections to the Europeanb> Parliament: By country (2)

A Europeanb> mandate is incompatible with the office of Chancellor (or Deputy Chancellor) of Justice, parliamentary Ombudsman (or Deputy Ombudsman), and judge of the Supreme Court or the Supreme Administrative Court.
Irish electoral law for elections to the Europeanb> Parliament is governed by the Europeanb> Assembly Elections Act 1977, the Europeanb> Assembly (Irish representatives) Act 1979, the Europeanb> Assembly Elections Act 1984 (Acts of the Oireachtas 1977, 1979 and 1984), the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1986, the Electoral Act 1992 and the Europeanb> Election Act 1993.
The Europeanb> Parliamentary Elections Act of May 1978 was amended and supplemented by the Europeanb> Elections Act of 1981, the Representation of the People Acts of 1983 and 1985, the regulations governing the elections to the Europeanb> Parliament in Northern Ireland and Scotland and the Europeanb> Parliamentary Elections Act of 1993.

http://www.europarl.eu.int/workingpapers/poli/w13/country_en.htm (223 words)



Europeanb> Parliament UK Office - News Item

The draft legislation, which will now be considered again by EU governments in the light of the Europeanb> Parliament's vote, also requires the Europeanb> Commission to carry out a study of the impact of full liberalisation on the maintenance of the universal postal service.
The Europeanb> Parliament has backed EU legislation designed to get national postal monopolies to open their markets to further competition.
The Europeanb> Parliament has voted in favour of a plan to bring in international accounting standards for listed companies in the EU from 2005.

http://www.europarl.org.uk/news/textonly/txitems2002/march13.htm (223 words)



Member of the Europeanb> Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

MEPs are the Europeanb> Unions equivalents of a country's national parliamentary members, known as MPs in English; hence, the term Euro-MP is used colloquially in English.
A Member of the Europeanb> Parliament (English abbreviation MEP) is a member of the Europeanb> Union's directly-elected legislative body, the Europeanb> Parliament.
The so-called dual mandate, where an individual is a member of both his or her national parliament and the Europeanb> Parliament, is officially discouraged and has been prohibited by a number of EU countries, most recently Italy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_the_European_Parliament (1860 words)



[Ip-health] Europeanb> Parliament approves pharma law overhaul

In brief the Europeanb> Parliament agreed to: - A harmonised 8 years data exclusivity provision but coupled with the restriction of production and marketing until 10 years after first authorisation of the originator (It is important to note that the was passe= d by an overwhelming majority of MEPs).
- The establishment of a Europeanb> Reference Product (euro-generic), which would enable a generic to be marketed in any EU member state market as long as the originator had been marketed in at least one EU Member State.
MEPs rejected drug industry claims that "competition" between the EMEA and national authoritie= s would be preferable to an EMEA monopoly.

http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/ip-health/2002-November/003657.html (1860 words)



Władysław IV - info

Participation in the National Conferenceon the Political System Dimension of the Constitutional Treaty of the Europeanb> Union - pupils met Speaker of the Polish Parliament Marek Borowski.
Model Europeanb> Parliament - (17-25.04.2004) - Władysław IV co-organized the Model Europeanb> Parliament Session in Warsaw for delegates from 28 Europeanb> countries under the honorary patronage of President of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski.
The MEP initiative for young delegates reflecting the structure and curriculum of the Europeanb> Parliament came into existence in the Hague in 1994.

http://www.wladyslaw.edu.pl/info/infouk.php (1860 words)



Europeanb> Parliament election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Elections to the Europeanb> Parliament were held from June 10, 2004 to June 13, 2004 in the 25 member states of the Europeanb> Union, using varying election days according to local custom.
They also coincided with local and regional elections in England and Wales, Irish local elections, regional elections in Belgium, local or regional elections in most of Italy, and state parliament elections in the German state of Thuringia.
A Europeanb> Union-wide political party, the Europeanb> Greens, was established in Rome on 21 February 2004 to contest this election.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament_election,_2004 (1860 words)



Encyclopedia: Elections in the United Kingdom

The British local elections of 2004 were held on the tenth of June, as part of the 2004 set of elections along with the Europeanb> elections and the London mayoral and Assembly elections.
The UK general election, 1987 was held on June 11, 1987 and was the third victory in a row for Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives.
The UK general election, 1992 was held on April 9, 1992, and was the fourth victory in a row for the Conservatives.

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Elections-in-the-United-Kingdom (10963 words)



Encyclopedia: Elections in the United Kingdom

The British local elections of 2004 were held on the tenth of June, as part of the 2004 set of elections along with the Europeanb> elections and the London mayoral and Assembly elections.
The UK general election, 1992 was held on April 9, 1992, and was the fourth victory in a row for the Conservatives.
The UK general election, 1987 was held on June 11, 1987 and was the third victory in a row for Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives.

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Elections-in-the-United-Kingdom (10913 words)



Europeanb> Parliament election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Elections to the Europeanb> Parliament were held from June 10, 2004 to June 13, 2004 in the 25 member states of the Europeanb> Union, using varying election days according to local custom.
They also coincided with local and regional elections in England and Wales, Irish local elections, regional elections in Belgium, local or regional elections in most of Italy, and state parliament elections in the German state of Thuringia.
A Europeanb> Union-wide political party, the Europeanb> Greens, was established in Rome on 21 February 2004 to contest this election.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament_Election_2004 (10913 words)

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