I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
A Fresh New Start – President Junker The Next President of the European Commission will be Jean-Claude Junker. One can only hope he is better than previous Luxembourg President of the Commission, Jacques Santer, whose incompetence was so dire, that the European Parliament threw him out of office. EU leaders choose him as their Candidate on 27 … Read more
European Parliament On Thursday 26 June the Political Groups behind the Chairs and Vice- Chairs of the European Parliament’s 22 Committees were announced. These positions are assigned to the Political Groups relative to their size. As the Christian Democrats are the largest group, they get the first choice on the Committee they want to lead. … Read more
Parliament’s New Leaders Last week the men and women who will decide a lot of Europe’s laws were decided. The Chairs of the European Parliament’s Committees, whose job is to keep the European Commission and Council in check, make sure taxpayers’ money is spent properly, and scrutinise and pass laws were decided. Or, at least … Read more
I wanted to share a FH Briefing on the outlook for Europe’s Environment Committee. There will be a lot of old and influential faces not coming back to the 8th European Parliament. But, thoughts that the larger eurosceptic and anti-European Parties will somehow have greater influence are too exaggerated. The 8th EP_Results and analysis_ENVIfinal