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Turkey report firm but fair
Andrew Duff, 21 April 2008
The Foreign Affairs committee of the European Parliament voted this evening on a report dealing with Turkey's progress in negotiations towards eventual EU accession.
Andrew Duff MEP welcomed the outcome of Parliament's resolution which incorporated many Liberal Democrat amendments: "Parliament has been fair with Turkey but also firm.
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Iraq and EU must continue cooperation
Baroness Nicholson, 17 April 2008
A joint meeting of the European Parliament's delegation for relations with Iraq led by Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (UK, Lib Dem) and the Foreign Affairs Committee today received the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The Prime Minister spoke on a wide range of topics and answered many questions from the MEPs present. During the discussion he reaffirmed his commitment to building an Iraq where human rights are universally respected for all Iraqis, no matter their faith or ethnicity.
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Beyond a European foreign policy!
Andrew Duff, Article on FT.com, 9 April 2008
Earlier in the year, the EU decided to supervise Kosovan independence - again, against Russia’s wishes. Although the decision on Kosovo was not unanimous, the dissenting minority chose to abstain constructively rather than to block the effort. Now, surprising (perhaps) even itself, the EU has confounded hard-liners in Washington and Moscow by deciding to revitalise Nato.
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European Data Protection Day highlights paucity of UK Information Commissioner powers
Sarah Ludford, 28 january 2008
Today, January 28th 2008, is European Data Protection Day, which marks the signing over 25 years ago of the Convention of the Council of Europe (not an EU body) on the automatic processing of personal data.
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No free ride for foreign traffic offenders
Sarah Ludford, 24 january 2008
A conference co-sponsored by Transport for London and London Councils, the association of London boroughs, is being held in Brussels today to seek cross-border enforcement of traffic and parking fines in the EU.
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EU and governments must come clean on traveller 'profiling'
Sarah Ludford, 23 january 2008
On the eve of an informal meeting of European justice and interior ministers, the European Parliament's civil liberties committee has agreed to draw up a report on the subject of 'profiling' in counter-terrorism, policing and border control.
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EU enquiry needed into UK breaches of data protection
Sarah Ludford, 21 january 2008
Liberal Democrat MEP Baroness Sarah Ludford has written to EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini to demand an urgent inquiry into the UK's respect of EU data protection law, and the implications for EU data-sharing plans, after repeated data losses by government agencies. Most recently, a Ministry of Defence official had a laptop, holding details of 600,000 potential recruits to the armed forces, stolen from his car.
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Liberal MEP challenges Russia's commitment to Council of Europe values
Graham Watson, 14 january 2007
In the European Parliament today in Strasbourg, Graham Watson MEP, Leader of the Liberal and Democrat Group, raised the worrying escalation of tit-for-tat retaliation between London and Moscow over the Litvinenko affair which has recently hit the British language and cultural activities in Russia; namely the forced closure of British Council offices in St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg by Russian authorities.
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EU leads way in historic UN vote for executions moratorium
Sarah Ludford, 19 december 2007
The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution on a universal moratorium on the death penalty.
In line with longstanding EU policy against executions, EU Member States supported by the European Commission tabled the resolution at the UN after an initiative launched by Italy and enthusiastically endorsed by the European Parliament which has long campaigned on the issue.
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MEPs call on EU to take lead on Guantanamo resettlement
Sarah Ludford, 12 december 2007
In adopting a resolution on terrorism in Strasbourg today, the European Parliament included an amendment sponsored by Liberal Democrat MEP Baroness Sarah Ludford calling on EU governments and the European Commission to play a proactive role in the resettlement of Guantanamo Bay detainees who are neither being tried fairly nor capable of returning to their own countries for fear of persecution or torture.
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EU must not pay for Kosovo independence with freedom for Mladic and Karadic
Sarah Ludford, 11 december 2007
Reacting to the likelihood of EU support for Kosovo's 'coordinated' declaration of independence against the background of Serbian anger and threats, Liberal Democrat European Justice Spokeswoman, Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP, said: "The EU must not allow itself to be blackmailed by Serbia into signing the European association agreement as a sweetener for the loss of Kosovo, without indicted war crimes fugitives Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadic in the Hague.
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As Summit approaches, push to ban cluster bombs must be kept up, urges MEP
Liz Lynne, Speech, 23 november 2007
Liz Lynne MEP, Member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights and a leading campaigner against cluster munitions, recently co-tabled a European Parliamentary resolution calling for European and global action on cluster munitions which was adopted with a large majority.
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EU must learn database lessons from UK lost records
Sarah Ludford, 22 november 2007
Two leading MEPs responsible for major EU databases holding personal and biometric information have written jointly to the other EU institutions demanding that lessons be learned from the UK government's apparently negligent approach to data protection and security which led to the loss of records on 25 million people.
Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP, Liberal Democrat European Justice Spokeswoman and European Parliament 'rapporteur' on the EU biometric visa database the Visa Information System, has joined with fellow MEP Carlos Coelho, ...
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Easy option being takes on fight against Terrorism
Sarah Ludford, 8 november 2007
Commenting on the package of anti-terrorist measures being presented by Commissioner Frattini today for approval by the European Commission, UK Liberal Democrat European Justice Spokeswoman, Sarah Ludford MEP, said: "One day after the EU's Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Giles de Kerchove told MEPs that 'profiling' is unacceptable because of risks of discrimination, Franco Frattini is proposing an EU collectively appear as either naïve or dishonest. The envisaged lack of parliamentary control over this law, either European or national, ...
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Cluster Bombs: MEPs demand a stop to the killing
Parliementary resolution, 25 october 2007
The European Parliament today adopted a resolution which MEPs hope will pave the way for an eventual global ban on cluster bombs. Liberal Democrat MEP Liz Lynne, a long time campaigner against the use of cluster munitions and Member of the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights, co-tabled the resolution on behalf of the Liberal and Democrat group having led previous campaigns in the Parliament for a ban.
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