Economic governance review of the 6-pack and 2-pack regulations (debate) – 16.12.2014
The six and two pack arrangements are meant to ensure that Eurozone guidelines are being observed, They provide a calibrated and measured approach by which to assess economic and financial outcomes. However there is no unified central directing function within the Eurozone project. One must query whether the assurance that we have (about the respect
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‘THE ARAB SPRING NOT A FAST TRACK FOR ADOPTION OF EUROPEAN VALUES’
Alfred Sant said it was an illusion to think that the Arab Spring was a fast track towards the adoption of ‘European’ values by Arab countries. “European” values, even the most fundamental one of human rights, cannot simply be exported. They can only be assimilated in a dialectical manner, subsumed and altered in the culture
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L-ITALJA KONTRA L-ĠERMANJA?
Kif mistenni, baqgħet toħloq kontroversja d-deċiżjoni tal-Kummissjoni Ewropea li tistenna sa Marzu li ġej qabel tiddeċiedi timmultax u tagħmel sanzjonijiet oħra fuq Franza u l-Italja peress li dawn ma osservawx l-obbligi li kienu kommessi għalihom fit-tħejjija tal-baġits tagħhom. Għoddha skattat tilwima diplomatika bejn il-Ġermanja u l-Italja, wara li l-kanċellier Merkel f’intervista fl-istampa Tedeska qalet li
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SANT ASKS EC WHEN IT WILL EVACUATE 1700 EMPLOYEES EXPOSED TO ASBESTOS
Maltese Europarliamentarian Alfred Sant has asked the European Commission whether a definite date has been decided to move out 1,700 employees from the Jean Monet Building in Luxembourg, 50 of which are Maltese Nationals. These employees are directly connected to the presence of asbestos after it had been establised that a large amount of asbestos
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ALFRED SANT ON THE NEED TO CREATE NEW JOBS
The persentage of newly created jobs in the European Union by Small and Medium Sized Industries (SME’s) is on the decline. At present this amounts to 85%. This information was given by European Commissioner MarianneThyssen when reacting to a statement on the subject by Maltese MEP Alfred Sant during the Monetary and Financial Committee of
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Banking Union: MEPs quiz Single Resolution Board candidates – Ms Elke König – 09.12.2014
Are you satisfied with the architecture of the banking union and specifically with the powers and competencies of the Resolution Mechanism? Don’t you feel that they have been dictated too much by political compromises? For instance the competence of your organization to intervene is drastically restricted in Germany as contrasted to other countries like France,
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Presence of asbestos in Commission building
8 December 2014 E-010368-14 Question for written answer to the Commission Rule 130 Alfred Sant (S&D) Subject: Presence of asbestos in Commission building Question(s) With regard to Directive 2009/148/EC of 30 November 2009 on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to asbestos at work, and with regard to the well known
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