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21 February 2011

EU must put pressure on to end violence in Libya

SP leader Emile Roemer has reacted with horror and disgust to reports that Libyan armed forces have opened fire on demonstrators. ‘This is a terrible crime to commit against your own people and must not go unanswered,’ he said. 'Bombing and shooting your own people with heavy armaments, including the air force, is a war crime. Premier Rutte must do all in his power at European level and in the world to have immediate sanctions imposed on Gaddafi’s regime.'

20 February 2011

Right-wing Parliamentary Excursion

The right-wing parties were determined, whatever the cost, for the first time in Dutch Parliamentary history, to force through a vote on the question of whether we should travel now or later.

19 February 2011

European arrest warrant must be reformed

For those who should be extradited as quickly as possible, there must be guarantees that, in the country which has requested their handing over, conditions await them which meet our standards.

17 February 2011

Senate urges government action on ridding Europe of nuclear weapons

A majority in the Senate is of the opinion that the government should be doing more to ensure that tactical nuclear weapons are removed from Europe. A joint motion from the SP and Labour calling on the government to explain what concrete measures it intends to take to further disarmament can count on a clear majority.

17 February 2011

De Jong: European expert groups exclude experts

An inventory conducted by the SP’s team in the European Parliament has revealed that it’s extremely difficult for real experts to be appointed to the so-called expert groups which advise the European Commission on legislative and other measures. Instead, the near-thousand groups are peopled in the main by lobbyists from major corporations. As SP Euro-MP Dennis de Jong says, ‘Social organisations invariably lack funds while the big corporations can afford to hire lobbyists to get their voices heard. This has got to change.’

16 February 2011

SP leader Emile Roemer: ‘Influx of workers from Eastern Europe must be regulated’

The Netherlands must have the right to determine for itself which workers from which countries are allowed to take up employment in the country without a work permit. SP leader Emile Roemer presents a 5-point plan to limit the currently uncontrolled influx of workers from Eastern Europe, to oblige people working in the Netherlands to learn Dutch, and to put an end to fraudulent and abusive employment bureaux and inadequate housing for workers coming from abroad.

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