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11 February 2013

Tiny Kox: Start of election registration in Gaza offers new hope

Today the Palestinian Central Election Commission opened 257 stations in Gaza, where Palestinian voters can register to participate in the coming elections. SP Senator Tiny Kox sees this as a hopeful new step forward, necessary because this year parliamentary and presidential elections will be held in the whole of Palestine.

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10 February 2013

Despite crisis Euro-MPs refuse to give up perks

The European Parliament today voted to maintain the full range of reimbursements and perks for Members.

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8 February 2013

Drone attacks in violation of international law

Reports appear regularly of ‘successful’ American drone attacks. Look more deeply into the question of the drones, and you’ll see that they are anything but a success.

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8 February 2013

Van Bommel: ‘Rutte should have rejected EU budget’

SP Member of Parliament Harry van Bommel, the party’s parliamentary spokesman on European Affairs, is far from happy with today’s agreement on the EU budget.

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5 February 2013

Parliament supports SP on bankers’ bonuses

The Dutch national Parliament adopted two proposals from the SP calling on the government to make every effort to push through strict limits on bakers’ bonuses within the European Union. Parliament supported both of SP Member Arnold Merkies’s plans to demand European agreements to place severe limits on bonuses and, in the case of banks in receipt of state bail-outs, ban them completely.

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