A Parliament resolution, approved on Thursday, welcomes plans to step up EU funding for developing innovative low-carbon technologies to help cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020. MEPs want…
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The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that the national legislation in certain Member States that allows the fixing of a price floor for tobacco products is contrary to…
By Ina DimirevaMember States still lag behind in the implementation of the internal energy market rules, reveals the Commissions 2009 Benchmarking Report adopted today. The correct transposition of the European…
By Ina DimirevaVery small companies could be exempted from having to draw up annual accounts, following approval by the European Parliament of changes to EU accounting rules. Voting in the…
By Ina DimirevaThe Commission is to carry out an in-depth examination of insurance schemes covering national catastrophes, in particular flooding, announced Michel Barnier, European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, on Tuesday at…
The EU’s internal market was put under scrutiny today, 9 March, when Members of the European Parliament debated a series of reports in their plenary session in Strasbourg. They concluded…
Basing their findings on a 2004 Council directive which sets out the conditions one must satisfy in order to qualify for refugee status, the European court of Justice (ECJ) has…
An EU Member State which reserves the operation of casinos exclusively to companies which have their seat in its territory is acting in a way which is incompatible with European…
By Leo GasteenThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) has upheld member states’ power to remove citizenship from a citizen of the Union, when that person has obtained that nationality by…
By Leo GasteenThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that products originating in the occupied territories of the West Bank cannot qualify for preferential customs granted for Israeli goods…