The single currency is one of Europe’s most significant and tangible achievements. It has helped our economies to integrate and has brought Europeans closer together. But it has always been much more than a monetary project. It was conceived as a promise of prosperity – and that is how it must remain, also for those
In first place for ECON comes the discharge of functions that have been delegated to the Parliament under the Union treaties. This discharge is carried out meticulously and diligently. Secondly, there is the search for increased relevance and importance, by which the EP takes initiatives to assert its presence and relevance, propose policy alternatives, contest
There is an emerging consensus that obesity is a public enemy of the first rank. It blights the life of people across Europe, young and old, rich and poor. It sustains diseases of the endemic kind which develop regardless of age and social condition. It is instrumental in generating what should be avoidable increases in
By rights, in the Europe of today, there should be no place for this meeting about homelessness. The latter should be an alien concept, one that refers to the state of affairs in some planet that lies well outside the European space. The reality is different. Homelessness is a serious problem in Europe, which is
