The Polish Jerzy Buzek is the new president of the European Parliament with 555 votes out of 644. The other candidate, Eva-Britt Svensson, reached only 89 votes. The 14 vicepresidents are Diana Wallis, Edward McMillan Scott, Gianni Pittella, Roberta Angelilli, Miguel Angel Martinez, Alejo Vidral-Quadras Roca, Dagmar Roth-Behrendt, Libor Rouċek, Isabelle Durant, Pál Schmitt, Rainer Wieland, Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou and Stavros Lambrinidis.
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The newly-elected European Parliament reconvenes in Strasbourg from Tuesday July 14 to Thursday July 16 about the election of new European Parliament president on Tuesday and the election of new committee chairs and vice-chairs on Thursday. On Wednesday the discussion will concern the Czech and Swedish EU presidencies.
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The results from the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain… I will write the names of the new British, Irish, Dutch and Spanish MEPs from now on in the next weeks.
UK… London
Jean Lambert, former London‘s Green MEP, has been confirmed as MEP.
Jean Lambert on equality issues
Charles Tannock, confirmed MEP, before the vote “near Marylebone”, an important area of the capital
A video (part 1)
Syed Kamall and his website
The Eu directive “Television Without Frontiers”
North West
Sajjad Karim, already an Alde MEP (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe), will keep on being a MEP for the Conservative (UK) and the EPP group (European People’s Party – Europe) . He was elected in the North West region (Greater Manchester, but also Cumbria, Cheshire, Lancashire and Merseyside)
Proinsias De Rossa, Dublin MEP, will keep on flying to the Europarliament as well, as the Irish Times reports.
De Rossa on climate change
The European elections mean the victory of the Conservative Party over the Zapatero’s Socialists in Spain.
The Netherlands
Are the Netherlands becoming more “extreme”?
- “Echelon“, “global surveillance” and the European Parliament. The UK, Germany and the U.S. with Canada, New Zealand and Australia
- Working for EU institutions
European health officials and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou, a “she” that becomes “he”… One of the American points of view
The European Union warns against swine flu panic. The position of the EU Health Commissioner
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8027043.stm
- Economic crisis, the EU and starting up businesses
- Barroso, the “European Solidarity Fund” and the promised quake aid for Abruzzo and L’Aquila
- The European Entrepreneurship Video Award, but the deadline has already expired
- How you can vote in the UK
Peter Cranie and Jean Lambert, candidates in North West and London
Rupert Read, Euro-MP candidate for Eastern England
Candidates in North East England
- Shirley Ford’s blog
- Iris Ryder’s blog
- Nic Best’s blog
Caroline Lucas, South East MEP and Green Party Leader
South West, Ricky Knight – North Devon Greens
Martin Hemingway’s blog, Yorkshire & the Humber
- The Guardian, the Greens and Gordon Brown
- Maybe Labour fourth in the European elections?
European elections – in Spanish
Javier Solana (EU high representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy) and Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador – in Spanish
Farmers. Dealing with the skimmed milk-powder (SMP), the Copa, an association of European farmers, has asked the European Commission and the Council “to grant financial support to use SMP in animal feed”. “According to our calculations, – the association argues – up to an additional 150 000 tonnes of SMP could then be used, greatly reducing the pressure on the dairy market”.
- A page by The Telegraph about these European elections not only in the UK with its MEPs, but also in Northern Europe (the Netherlands) and Central-Northern Europe (Germany). Other countries covered are located in South Europe (Italy), Eastern Europe (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary and Bulgaria), West Europe (Spain) and very Eastern Europe (Poland).
Hans-Gert Pöttering, president of the European Parliament, about the Dutch film “Hitna”
Opera, an European browser, and Mozilla, Linux and Apple
Monday June 2, 2009
updated on Tuesday July 14, 2009
