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Friday, 13 June 2008 |
Giles Chichester's resignation from the leadership of the Conservatives in the European Parliament, and the travails of other Tories in Brussels and Strasbourg, has shone a light on how MEPs can manage their expenses, writes Stephen Gardner. Under Parliament rules, MEPs can appoint 'paying agents', who manage the cash they get for office expenses and staff costs – around £35,000 annually for the former, and £135,000 for the latter.
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Friday, 13 June 2008 |
Alexey Miller, CEO of Gazprom, speaks to Dafydd ab Iago.
Speaking on 10 June at the European Business Congress in Deauville, France, Alexey Miller, chair of Gazprom, outlined plans to push forward with vertical integration, also in Europe.
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
The future of the UN's Clean Development Mechanism is unclear, with significant implications for emerging carbon markets, writes Stephen Gardner.
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
Metric martyrs looking for a new cause now the British pint is safe might want to turn their attention to Eurocrat meddling in nutrient recommendations, writes Stephen Gardner. These – dealing with consumptions of vitamins and minerals such as fluoride, magnesium and salt – are set in the UK by the Food Standards Agency. But for how much longer?
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
Smart grids promise a greener, more energy-efficient Europe, but the road to intelligent electricity generation and distribution will be long and expensive, writes Stephen Gardner.
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
Welsh MEPs are reluctant to give any details about their earnings or how they spend the monies received from the European Parliament, Dafydd ab Iago has found in an investigation for Welsh monthly Barn. Dafydd asked how much the MEPs earned from the EP, how much did they spend on their assistants and how much did they receive in expenses, but he received no straight answers.
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
Some rather alarming new research has raised questions about biometric passports, which are issued in the EU according to a standard template set out by the European Commission in 2004, writes Stephen Gardner. The passports hold personal data in radio frequency identification (RFID) chips, which send out wireless signals across short distances.
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
Eurocorrespondent.com managing editor Stephen Gardner is also Brussels correspondent for International Environment Reporter, published in Washington D.C. by the Bureau of National Affairs. BNA has recently launched a website dedicated to tracking climate change and the evolution of relevant legislation. To see details of Stephen Gardner's articles on the climate.bna.com website, click here.
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
Russian Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko gave EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs a hard time on his latest visit to Moscow, writes Dafydd ab Iago. The meeting between the two took place just before chain smoker Khristenko, who is also responsible for industry and commerce, passed on the energy side of his portfolio to newcomer Sergei Shmatko. Khristenko told Piebalgs that the EU would be discriminating against Russia if it adopted the so-called Gazprom clause contained in the energy market liberalisation proposals put forward by the European Commission on 19 September.
Read the article in full at Europolitics.
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