| COMPLAINING TO THE OMBUDSMAN |
Not many people know that if you have a complaint about the European Union you can complain to the European Ombudsman.
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| EUROPE AND THE WORLD |
The next big challenge facing the European Union is to unite the east and west. However, a union of up to 30 countries cannot be run like a union of 15. The new Europe is likely to be a European political and economic union of nation states acting together. It will not be a United States of Europe - rather a united Europe of states.
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| GOOD NEWS FOR THE EURO |
Since its launch the European single currency (the Euro) has been going through a stormy period. Relative to the American dollar the Euro has looked weak, falling to below parity. Despite the fact that this does not matter too much in economic terms - the value of the Euro is the value of the Euro - it was bad in psychological terms.
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| SAVE OUR POST |
Last week in Strasbourg, Euro MPs voted overwhelmingly to reject the European Commission's plans to throw open the EU postal market to competition. In May this year, the European Commission published plans to liberalise EU postal services by:
… introducing competition for letters weighing more than 50 grams;
… liberalising direct mail deliveries and out-going cross border mail.
But, Euro MPs rejected these proposals and voted to reserve the market for letters weighing less than 150 grams for national post monopolies.
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| ANIMAL TESTING |
It is extremely important the European Union (EU) Governments and the European Commission do not go back on their promise to ban the sale of new cosmetics tested on animals. The RSPCA campaign ‘Safe and Sound’, which calls for a complete sales ban on new animal-tested cosmetics is getting public support.
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| UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS |
Human rights are not just a requirement for European citizens. They should be a universal principle. The European Union should be proactive in promoting human rights worldwide. One way we can do that is through helping in the development of poorer countries.
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| EUROPEAN CHARTER OF RIGHTS |
At the European Union Summit in Nice it was agreed to go ahead with the establishment of a European Charter of Fundamental Rights.
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| SAFETY AT HEIGHTS |
In the UK 90 people die each year by falling from heights. Just last week two people died falling off scaffolding on the 5th floor of a building in Sheffield. Add to those 90 deaths 5.000 major injuries a year in falls from heights and you cam see that we have a major health a safety problem on our hands.
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