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5 March 2008

Meat approval system in Netherlands may be illegal

The Dutch Food and Food Products Authority (VWA) has farmed out its legal duty to approve or reject meat from slaughtered animals to the private sector, in the form of commercial corporation KDS plc. SP Euro-MP Kartika Liotard will today put a series of questions on the issue to the European Commission. "In my opinion," she says, "the intention of the legislation is not that commercial firms take over this sort of task. In fact it isn't permitted for them to do so."

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4 March 2008

Drugs: Policies should be judged by their results, not by ideology

Three Dutch mayors and two Members of Parliament call on their country to make vigorous demands at international level for an effective policy on drugs. The Netherlands, say the five, must play an innovative and tone-setting role in the coming discussions in the UN on a new international drugs policy.

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3 March 2008

SP Observer Endorses Council of Europe Team’s Verdict on Russian Elections: ‘Medvedev elected as voters are duped’

Although the result of the Russian Presidential election was in line with the will of most Russian voters, the basic conditions which these voters should be able to expect from democratic elections were not fulfilled.

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1 March 2008

SP's Senator Kox Reports from Moscow as Russia Votes

Moscow – Saturday 1 March. On Sunday Russia elects a new President. The polling stations are not yet open but the result is already certain. The successor to President Vladimir Putin will be Vice-Premier Dmitri Medvedev. His three opponents have no shadow of a chance in a campaign which has raised a number of questions for the Council of Europe's observers. One of these is the SP's Senate leader Tiny Kox, who reports from Moscow.

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29 February 2008

Enquiry established into tax on multinationals’ profits

Following strong pressure from the SP and Green Left, Secretary of State for Finance Jan Kees de Jager has promised an enquiry into the amount of tax paid by multinational corporations (MNCs). SP Member of Parliament Ewout Irrgang, the party's parliamentary spokesman on financial affairs, has the strong suspicion that in the Netherlands major MNCs pay very little indeed in the way of taxes.

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29 February 2008

Mission to Chad and Central African Republic leaves many questions unanswered

The SP has serious doubts about the Dutch contribution to the EUFOR mission in Chad and the Central African republic, to which today's decision in the national council of ministers committed the Netherlands. The humanitarian situation in the region is grievous, but the role of the French in the mission leaves the neutrality essential to a peace-keeping force open to question.

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