SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) honored Member of the European Parliament Roger Helmer as its first International Legislator of the Year at the organization's 33rd Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. The award ceremony took place on Friday, July 21, 2006. I am pleased to present Roger Helmer with ALEC's first International Legislator of the Year Award," said Kansas State Senator Susan Wagle, ALEC's 2006 National Chairman. "He has tirelessly demonstrated his commitment to the principles of free markets, limited government, and individual liberty. He has proven his commitment time and again to openness and transparency in government and deserves the highest recognition.
EUROPEANS FEAR 'MASSACRE' Struan Stevenson, a leading member of the European Parliament, sounded desperate as he appealed to the Obama administration to prevent a "human catastrophe" among Iranian exiles in Iraq.
MAKING IRAN HAPPY A leading member of the European Parliament on Tuesday appealed to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to disavow remarks by a U.S. diplomat dealing with imperiled Iranian dissidents in Iraq.
MOSCOW, June 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "The Moscow Demographic Summit: Family and The Future of Humankind" will hear from more than 40 speakers from Russia, Belarus, Slovakia, Italy, Hungary, Ireland, the Philippines, Poland, Belgium, Canada, Bolivia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The Summit will take place June 29-30 at the Russian State Social University. At the Opening ceremony, speakers include: Dr. Allan Carlson, World Congress of Families International Secretary; Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church (or Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin); Dr. Zhukov V.I, Rector Russian State Social University; Metropolitan Hilarion, Russian Orthodox Church Foreign Relations; Dr. Alan Keyes, former Asst. Secretary of State and U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO; Anna Zaborsk...
GIFT TO THE MULLAHS? Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will give "a gift to the mullahs" who oppress the Iranian people, if she fails to remove the Iranian resistance from the U.S. blacklist of terrorist groups, a visiting member of the European Parliament said Tuesday.
According to Scotsman Struan Stevenson, a member of the European Parliament, "wind turbines violate the principle of fairness by transferring vast amounts of money from poor to rich. They despoil our unique landscape and environment and through noise, the flicker effect and vibration, they abuse the health and welfare of people and animals that have to live near them. Money has corrupted our legislators, be they Democrats -- with former Gov. John Baldacci who initiated the process by executive order (where was the emergency?) -- and now a Republican administration that stands idly by to let this scam go on. The Maine Public Utilities Commission and the Natural Resources Council of Maine have encouraged this scam.
BRUSSELS, Belgium (Reuters) - A pan-European watchdog should be given powers to stop short-selling, according to a European Union report that also calls for tough sanctions against hedge funds that fail to curb pay, borrowing and risk-taking. The European Union is examining new rules for the funds and others. This week, Jean-Paul Gauzes, a French member of the European parliament appointed to broker a deal on the law, will issue a report outlining the direction the E.U. should take. In the document, obtained by Reuters, Mr. Gauzes writes: "In exceptional circumstances and in order to ensure the stability of the financial system the European Securities and Markets Authority [a proposed new body] may take the decision to restrict short-selling activities.
BRUSSELS, November 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Austrian Member of the European Parliament Angelika Werthmann has rightly asked the European Commission on October 6 about how the more than 500 Million Euros in aid has been used by Pakistan. The European Commission has been giving aid to Pakistan since 1976. Ms. Werthmann is a Member of the Budget Committee in the European Parliament and is a Member of the Delegation for Relations with South Asia.
STRASBOURG, France An EU investigator said Wednesday he has evidence to suggest that a Ukrainian airstrip was used by CIA- operated planes involved in the U.S. extraordinary rendition program. Giovanni Fava said he was also looking into possible CIA use of a military site at a Ukrainian base. Fava, an Italian member of the European Parliament, drafted a report last year identifying more than 1,000 secret CIA flights with stopovers on European territory since 2001. He identified several of them as being used to transfer terror suspects.
BRUSSELS, June 12, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- "It will be fundamental for Europeans to stop viewing their Muslim neighbours as different and start understanding them as Europeans - as us", so Theurer (German Liberal Member of the European Parliament and member of the Delegation for the relations between the European Parliament and Israel) during today's half-day hearing organized by the International Council for Inter-Religious Cooperation (ICIRC) in the European Parliament. Besides Theurer, Prof. Dr. Reinhard Bettzuge (German Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg.....), Sri Hartanti Kustiningsih (Charge d'Affaire of the Indonesian Embassy), Sheikh Abdulaziz Alyahyah (Director of the Islamic Centre of Belgium) and the Romanian Liberal Member of the European Parliament, Cristian Silviu Busoi, cont...
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