Common rules on matters related to detention, adopted unanimously by Member States, have been implemented only in around half of the EU’s 28 countries.
The European Commission has announced it will give €142 million in humanitarian funds to the Sahel region of Africa in 2014, which is once again suffering because of a severe food and nutrition crisis this year. In addition, many people in Mali are in need of humanitarian aid as a result of the situation in the North.
In total, the European Commission has contributed €845 million to UNICEF in the last seven years across all areas, of which €203.5 million has been spent on education and €52million on child protection projects.
Slovenia has been affected by extreme cold – blizzards, heavy snow and sleets, since 31 January. The collapse of power lines under the weight of ice, snow and falling trees caused electricity disruptions affecting 250,000 people (25% of households).
An internal armed conflict must be found to exist where a State’s armed forces confront one or more armed groups or where two or more armed groups confront each other, regardless of the intensity of the confrontations, the level of organisation of the armed forces involved or the duration of the conflict.
The new law is part of a series of measures taken by the European Commission to promote participation in the European Parliament elections that will take place between 22-25 May 2014, but only half of the EU’s Member States have met the deadline for updating these rules.
The new rules would also give supervisors the power to require those banks to separate certain potentially risky trading activities from their deposit-taking business if the pursuit of such activities compromises financial stability.
Chief of Serbia`s negotiating team in the membership talks with the European Union Tanja Miscevic stated that explanatory screening on Chapter 3 “Right of establishment and freedom to provide services” is the first one that was open after scheduling parliamentary elections.
Committee on Rules of Procedure and Institutional Affairs, whose president is Natasa Vuckovic, is one of the eight Committees of the CE Parliamentary Assembly.
Ocean energy covers all technologies to harvest the renewable energy of our seas and oceans other than offshore wind. Its exploitation would contribute to the decarbonisation of the EU’s economy and provide secure and reliable renewable energy to Europe.
