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Nieuws uit 2008

24 April 2008

Minister promises SP action on extradition treaty with Brazil

Justice Minister Hirsch Ballin will take the necessary steps to ensure that in the near future an extradition treaty is signed between Brazil and the Netherlands. The minister made this commitment in response to calls from SP Member of Parliament Arda Gerkens. Such a treaty would mean that the Netherlands could extradite two men who have been convicted of offences connected to child pornography.

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24 April 2008

Kartika Liotard: ‘Keep GMOs Out'

The European Parliament’s centre-right Christian-Democrat group, the so-called European People’s Party (EPP), wants to see more space created for the approval of Genetically Manipulated Organisms (GMOs). During Wednesday’s debate in the European Parliament, EPP spokesman Neil Parish urged the European Commission to loosen controls on GMOs. SP Euro-MP Kartika Liotard declared her opposition to any such move in no uncertain terms, arguing that current rules protect consumers from what she called “foodstuffs that have been tampered with”.

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23 April 2008

Resolution of Macedonia dispute closer as MEPs back SP proposal

‬The European Parliament today voted by a large majority to back SP Euro-MP Erik Meijer's report on Macedonia.‭ ‬Meijer acts as the European Parliament's rapporteur on the country,‭ ‬which has ambitions to join the EU.‭ ‬But a dispute with neighbours Greece over the former Yugoslav republic's name has to date prevented the application process from progressing.‭

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22 April 2008

European cooperation is a must – but it must be the right kind

European cooperation is a must – but it must be the right kind of cooperation. The government should stand with its citizens, not against them, as is the case in the Netherlands. This was the message that SP Senator Paul Peters brought to the government in the Senate today. Labour Party Secretary of State for Europe Frans Timmermans wasn't all that pleased with this, accusing the SP of spreading "conspiracy theories".

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22 April 2008

The Uruzgan Effect

This week saw the parliamentary debate on progress in Afghanistan. Or, to put it more accurately, retrogression in that country. According to reports from the UN and other organisations, 2007 was the least safe year for Afghanistan since 2001, and 2008 threatens to be still worse. The production of drugs in 2007 broke world records. With scores like these, you have to ask what we're actually doing there.

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18 April 2008

International trade in waste harms environment

SP member of Parliament Remi Poppe says that he finds the decision by Environment Minister Jacqueline Cramer to allow Dutch reprocessing facilities to burn Italian waste "impossible to understand" when there is so little capacity to reprocess waste originating in the Netherlands itself. “Because the Italians are offering a higher price for incineration of waste, Dutch waste will end up in landfill. The environment is the loser and the minister is doing nothing about it," said Poppe during this week's debate on the issue.

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