The European People’s Party (EPP) will hold its Statutory Congress in Bucharest, Romania, on 17-18 October 2012. Hosted by the PDL and UDMR, the EPP Congress in Bucharest will debate the updated party platform and will elect the new EPP Presidency. The EPP will also hold its regular Summit of heads of state and government and party leaders,...
The President of the Parliamentary European Union Affairs Committee Agnieszka Pomaska is going to participate in the XLVIII COSAC, which will be held in Nicosia („Filoxenia” Conference Center), from 14 to 16 October 2012. The Conference shall be organized as part of the parliamentary dimension of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European...
On 16-23 September, Agnieszka Pomaska, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on European Union Affairs will be in Paris within the France’s International Visitor Leadership Program(Programme d’invitation personnalités d’avenir des) organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the French Republic. Among the main topics of the meeting will be the vision of France and European policy,...
128 million pln to subsidise the purchase of textbooks and 2.5 million pln in the form of hardship benefits for educational purposes – this is how the government is going to support pupils in the 2012/2013 school year. Subsidies under the programme „School starter kit” have been increased by more than 11 per cent as...
European Parliament rejected a controversial international trade agreement during the first part of the year and worked on a slew of ambitious proposals to get the economy back on track – ranging from stricter rules on running deficits, to a financial transaction tax and more stringent limits on bankers’ bonuses. Read on to find out...
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), was rejected by the European Parliament on Wednesday, and hence cannot become law in the EU. This was the first time that Parliament exercised its Lisbon Treaty power to reject an international trade agreement. 478 MEPs voted against ACTA, 39 in favour, and 165 abstained. „I am very pleased that...
The Euro 2012 championships are about to begin in two weeks’ time. Hence, the launch of a nationwide campaign „Poles 2012. We are all hosts”. In the coming weeks we will be building, together, a positive atmosphere of Euro 2012. We shall offer our Polish hospitality to guests from abroad, so that they feel like...
– If today there is no one brave to conduct the pension reform, in the 30s and 40s of the 21st century Polish pensioners and Poland as a country will get into very serious trouble – PM Donald Tusk said at the Sejm. On Friday, the Sejm adopted the government draft acts on extension of...
The EU adopted over the past decade several regulations to protect the rights of passengers travelling by plane, train, ship or bus. Today it wants to clarify and better enforce air passenger rights and ensure consistent application of different passenger rights regulations in the future. In a resolution adopted on 29 March 2012, MEPs called for...
1 May 2012 marks the eighth anniversary of the Poland’s accession to the European Union. This occasion provides an opportunity to conduct an analysis and draw conclusions regarding economic and social effects of Poland’s membership in the EU. Economic and Social Impact of Poland’s EU membership, accounting for the impact of enlargement on the EU-15...
