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27 September 2005

Letter to Barroso on the scrapping of EU regulation

SP Euro-MP Kartika Liotard has today sent a personal letter to the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso. For some time now his proposal to scrap European regulation has been attracting attention. Barroso even suggests withdrawing measures currently before the European Parliament, despite his claim earlier this year that the Services Directive could not be withdrawn or amended precisely because it was already on the Parliament's agenda.

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27 September 2005

Netherlands still Europe's milch-cow

Figures from the European Commission reveal that last year the Netherlands paid a net €194 per inhabitant to the EU, making it, just as in previous years, Europe's biggest net payer. In 2006 the contribution could rise still further, to a possible € 300 per head. SP Member of Parliament Harry van Bommel said, “This is unacceptable. The Netherlands has for too long been Brussels' milch-cow.”

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24 September 2005

SP seeks global ban to end lethal asbestos use

100 000 DEAD ANNUALLY - ACTION MUST BE TAKEN NOW

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23 September 2005

EU Common Agricultural Policy must be scrapped

A review of European agriculture subsidies, which account for more than 40 percent of the entire EU budget, is urgently needed. These subsidies go in great part to major corporations such as Schiphol Airport, Mars, Heineken and DSM. The lion's share is paid to the very biggest farmers and to transnational food and transport companies, while at the same time small farmers both within the EU and in agriculture-dependent developing countries are disadvantaged.

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22 September 2005

EU exports banned asbestos to Ukraine

The European Union continues to export ever-increasing quantities of asbestos to the Ukraine, despite the fact that its manufacture and use are now banned across the 25 EU member states. Poland and Hungary are amongst the countries selling their old stock of asbestos eastwards. This scandal was revealed by Dmytro Skrylnikov of the Ukrainian Association of Environmental Law, one of the speakers at the Asbestos Conference, organised by the SP's European Parliament group and taking place in Brussels today and tomorrow.

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17 September 2005

Chaos at Afghan elections

The SP will not be sending an observer to tomorrow's elections in Afghanistan. A last-minute invitation to go to Kabul received this week from the NATO parliamentary assembly by SP Senator Tiny Kox has been turned down. Explaining his decision, Senator Kox said “If Sunday's elections turn out to be anything like the organisation regarding the sending of observers, we can expect complete chaos.”

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