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Post by Foggy on Jul 19, 2024 20:56:32 GMT
and Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM). Patriots: Transport and Tourism (TRAN) Shouldn't the Gender Equality Committee be codenamed TRAN these days?  |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jul 22, 2024 13:52:39 GMT
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Post by irish observer on Jul 23, 2024 12:13:41 GMT
Very sarcastic analysis but one must remember that Strasbourg exists solely because the French insisted that it be there. MEPs historically sat for 3 days a week and the French insisted that for 1 day a week they sat in France in Strasbourg which is where in Alsace/Lorraine which they fought over the Germans several times. In reality everything should be in Brussels like the Commission and the main Parliament and in Brussels you speak English. But the ECB is in Frankfurt the successor to the Bundesbank and the Germans won the EMU project while the French get to keep Strasbourg for 1 day a week. Yet the menus if the area are in French and German because Offenburg is the nearest town in Western Germany across the border in the Rhineland.
Actually one of the most interested proponents of German unification and a friend of Helmut Kohl's was Charlie Haughey who supported him and gained structural funds for Ireland in doing so and helped reduce the political influence of Thatcher in Europe and in Washington.
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Post by eastmidlandsright on Jul 23, 2024 12:42:57 GMT
Very sarcastic analysis but one must remember that Strasbourg exists solely because the French insisted that it be there. MEPs historically sat for 3 days a week and the French insisted that for 1 day a week they sat in France in Strasbourg which is where in Alsace/Lorraine which they fought over the Germans several times. In reality everything should be in Brussels like the Commission and the main Parliament and in Brussels you speak English. But the ECB is in Frankfurt the successor to the Bundesbank and the Germans won the EMU project while the French get to keep Strasbourg for 1 day a week. Yet the menus if the area are in French and German because Offenburg is the nearest town in Western Germany across the border in the Rhineland. Actually one of the most interested proponents of German unification and a friend of Helmut Kohl's was Charlie Haughey who supported him and gained structural funds for Ireland in doing so and helped reduce the political influence of Thatcher in Europe and in Washington. Even the French weren't so silly as to insist that the Parliament transfers to Strasbourg one day every week. It sits there for one week of every month. |
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Post by irish observer on Jul 23, 2024 19:41:27 GMT
Very sarcastic analysis but one must remember that Strasbourg exists solely because the French insisted that it be there. MEPs historically sat for 3 days a week and the French insisted that for 1 day a week they sat in France in Strasbourg which is where in Alsace/Lorraine which they fought over the Germans several times. In reality everything should be in Brussels like the Commission and the main Parliament and in Brussels you speak English. But the ECB is in Frankfurt the successor to the Bundesbank and the Germans won the EMU project while the French get to keep Strasbourg for 1 day a week. Yet the menus if the area are in French and German because Offenburg is the nearest town in Western Germany across the border in the Rhineland. Actually one of the most interested proponents of German unification and a friend of Helmut Kohl's was Charlie Haughey who supported him and gained structural funds for Ireland in doing so and helped reduce the political influence of Thatcher in Europe and in Washington. Even the French weren't so silly as to insist that the Parliament transfers to Strasbourg one day every week. It sits there for one week of every month. One week of every month but still it shouldn't be there at all. It's just a nod to the French arrogance claiming that French is still the language of diplomacy. The irony is that during the time of the Irish and UK in the EU we made English the working language of the assembly and diplomatic channels together. Something the French never got over. Ireland has a good reputation for making allies. Our first ambassadors were the monks who helped Christianise Dark Age Britain. We've had people rise to high levels in BBC as our accents can travel and a diplomatic diaspora to rivel God knows who due to emigration. Starmer and Benn know this hence they've started knocking on our door to try and get a better deal for trade etc into Brussels and Frankfurt where we have access and friends. We even got to Iceland before Erik The Red and to America before the Vikings with St Brendan as replicated by Tim Severin. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jul 23, 2024 21:10:38 GMT
It started out in Strasbourg anyway. But time moves on and it doesn't need to be there.
Neither Strasbourg nor Brussels was the original choice for the European institutions. Belgium actually proposed Liège of all places, but everyone else objected on the grounds that it's a bit shit. Then it was going to be Saarbrücken when it was capital of its own country.
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Post by Delighted Of Tunbridge Wells on Jul 24, 2024 13:00:22 GMT
It started out in Strasbourg anyway. But time moves on and it doesn't need to be there. Neither Strasbourg nor Brussels was the original choice for the European institutions. Belgium actually proposed Liège of all places, but everyone else objected on the grounds that it's a bit shit. Then it was going to be Saarbrücken when it was capital of its own country. Liege?! Shit?! Probably one of the nicest cities in Belgium |
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Post by eastmidlandsright on Jul 24, 2024 13:02:12 GMT
It started out in Strasbourg anyway. But time moves on and it doesn't need to be there. Neither Strasbourg nor Brussels was the original choice for the European institutions. Belgium actually proposed Liège of all places, but everyone else objected on the grounds that it's a bit shit. Then it was going to be Saarbrücken when it was capital of its own country. Liege?! Shit?! Probably one of the nicest cities in Belgium A low bar if ever I saw one. |
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Post by Delighted Of Tunbridge Wells on Jul 24, 2024 13:05:26 GMT
Liege?! Shit?! Probably one of the nicest cities in Belgium A low bar if ever I saw one. I prefer Belgium to most other countries in Europe. |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Jul 24, 2024 13:24:09 GMT
It started out in Strasbourg anyway. But time moves on and it doesn't need to be there. Neither Strasbourg nor Brussels was the original choice for the European institutions. Belgium actually proposed Liège of all places, but everyone else objected on the grounds that it's a bit shit. Then it was going to be Saarbrücken when it was capital of its own country. Liege?! Shit?! Probably one of the nicest cities in Belgium It wouldn't be the nicest city in Belgium even if it were the only city, it's a fucking dump. |
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Post by Delighted Of Tunbridge Wells on Jul 24, 2024 13:40:06 GMT
Liege?! Shit?! Probably one of the nicest cities in Belgium It wouldn't be the nicest city in Belgium even if it were the only city, it's a fucking dump. Not my impression from when I visited - parts of Brussels were in a worse state! |
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 24, 2024 13:47:50 GMT
A low bar if ever I saw one. I prefer Belgium to most other countries in Europe. Somebody had to but glad it wasn't me. The food and the beer can be excellent. Some towns are delightful. Train service good. The west has some nice countryside. BUT! Difficult motorways with service areas often even worse than Britain and can have obvious thieves and prostitutes and dealers. Much of it flat, nondescript and drab. Much bad architecture and wretched post industrial squalour. |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Jul 24, 2024 14:24:07 GMT
I prefer Belgium to most other countries in Europe. Somebody had to but glad it wasn't me. The food and the beer can be excellent. Some towns are delightful. Train service good. The west has some nice countryside. BUT! Difficult motorways with service areas often even worse than Britain and can have obvious thieves and prostitutes and dealers. Much of it flat, nondescript and drab. Much bad architecture and wretched post industrial squalour. I went to the most gloriously awful 'service area' last month, straddling the France/Belgium border near Doornik. It was clearly the former customs area- all it consisted of was a large badly-tarmacked area, and a vending machine for HGVs to pick up an On Board Unit for the Belgian motorway tolls. No bathrooms, but you could walk out onto the farm track ran behind it to use a hedge. The vending machine smelt like it was the regular urinal. We left quickly. |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Jul 24, 2024 14:27:22 GMT
It wouldn't be the nicest city in Belgium even if it were the only city, it's a fucking dump. Not my impression from when I visited - parts of Brussels were in a worse state! Maybe you should work with their tourist board to develop their brand. I can see 'Visit Liege, it's better than Molenbeek' as catching on. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jul 24, 2024 14:45:23 GMT
It started out in Strasbourg anyway. But time moves on and it doesn't need to be there. Neither Strasbourg nor Brussels was the original choice for the European institutions. Belgium actually proposed Liège of all places, but everyone else objected on the grounds that it's a bit shit. Then it was going to be Saarbrücken when it was capital of its own country. Liege?! Shit?! Probably one of the nicest cities in Belgium I like Liège and lived there for a bit, but it is grimy and often quite dodgy. Certainly not somewhere the Eurocrats would have wanted to be. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jul 24, 2024 14:50:19 GMT
Liege?! Shit?! Probably one of the nicest cities in Belgium A low bar if ever I saw one. I think that's unfair. Namur, Dinant, Ghent, Leuven, Hasselt, Aalst, Ostende, Knokke, De Haan, Ypres...all fabulous places. Mons, Charleroi, La Louviere, Jemappes and the Liège satellite towns (Flémalle, Grace-Hollogne, Seraing) are awful, especially the latter. |
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Post by andrea on Jul 24, 2024 20:59:07 GMT
EU Parliament committees' chairs and vice-chairs
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Chair: David McAllister (EPP, DE)
1st Vice-Chair: Hana Jalloul (S&D, ES)
2nd Vice-Chair: Urmas Paet (Renew, EE)
3rd Vice-Chair: Alberico Gambino (ECR, IT)
4th Vice-Chair: Ioan-Rareș Bogdan (EPP, RO)
Subcommittee on Human Rights
Chair: Mounir Satouri (Greens/EFA, FR)
1st Vice-Chair: Marta Temido (S&D, PT)
2nd Vice-Chair: Łukasz Kohut (EPP, PL)
3rd Vice-Chair: will be elected at a forthcoming meeting
4th Vice-Chair: will be elected at a forthcoming meeting
Subcommittee on Security and Defence
Chair: Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (Renew, DE)
1st Vice-Chair: Christophe Gomart (EPP, FR)
2nd Vice-Chair: Mihai Tudose (S&D, RO)
3rd Vice-Chair: Alberico Gambino (ECR, IT)
4th Vice-Chair: Riho Terras (EPP, EE)
Committee on Development
Chair: Barry Andrews (Renew, IE)
1st Vice-Chair: Isabella Lövin (Greens/EFA, SE)
2nd Vice-Chair: Hildegard Bentele (EPP, DE)
3rd Vice-Chair: Abir Al-Sahlani (Renew, SE)
4th Vice-Chair: Robert Biedroń (S&D, PL)
Committee on International Trade
Chair: Bernd Lange (S&D, DE)
1st Vice-Chair: Manon Aubry (The Left, FR)
2nd Vice-Chair: Iuliu Winkler (EPP, RO)
3rd Vice-Chair: Karin Karlsbro (Renew, SE)
4th Vice-Chair: Kathleen Van Brempt (S&D, BE)
Committee on Budgets
Chair: Johan Van Overtveldt (ECR, BE)
1st Vice-Chair: Monika Hohlmeier (EPP, DE)
2nd Vice-Chair: Giuseppe Lupo (S&D, IT)
3rd Vice-Chair: Janusz Lewandowski (EPP, PL)
4th Vice-Chair: Lucia Yar (Renew, SK)
Committee on Budgetary Control
Chair: Niclas Herbst (EPP, DE)
1st Vice-Chair: Caterina Chinnici (EPP, IT)
2nd Vice-Chair: Cristian Terheş (ECR, RO)
3rd Vice-Chair: Claudiu Manda (S&D, RO)
4th Vice-Chair: will be elected at a forthcoming meeting
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Chair: Aurore Lalucq (S&D, FR)
1st Vice-Chair: Damian Boeselager (Greens/EFA, DE)
2nd Vice-Chair: Ludovit Odor (Renew, SK)
3rd Vice-Chair: Ludek Niedermayer (EPP, CZ)
4th Vice-Chair: will be elected at a forthcoming meeting
Subcommittee on Tax Matters
Chair: Pasquale Tridico (The Left, IT)
1st Vice-Chair: Kira Marie Peter-Hansen (Greens/EFA, DK)
2nd Vice-Chair: Regina Doherty (EPP, IE)
3rd Vice-Chair: Markus Ferber (EPP, DE)
4th Vice-Chair: Matthias Ecke (S&D, DE)
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
Chair: Li Andersson (The Left, FI)
1st Vice-Chair: Johan Danielsson (S&D, SE)
2nd Vice-Chair: Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak (EPP, PL)
3rd Vice-Chair: Katrin Langensiepen (Greens/EFA, DE)
4th Vice-Chair: will be elected at a forthcoming meeting
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Chair:Antonio Decaro (S&D, IT)
1st Vice-Chair:Esther Herranz García (EPP, ES)
2nd Vice-Chair:Pietro Fiocchi (ECR, IT)
3rd Vice-Chair:Anja Hazekamp (The Left, NL)
4th Vice-Chair: András Tivadar Kulja (EPP, HU)
Subcommittee on Public Health
Chair: Adam Jarubas (EPP, PL)
1st Vice-Chair: Tilly Metz (Greens/EFA, LU)
2nd Vice-Chair: Stine Bosse (Renew, DK)
3rd Vice-Chair: Romana Jerković (S&D, HR)
4th Vice-Chair: Emmanouil Fragkos (ECR, EL)
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
Chair: Borys Budka (EPP, PL)
1st Vice-Chair: Tsvetelina Penkova (S&D, BG)
2nd Vice-Chair: Elena Donazzan (ECR, IT)
3rd Vice-Chair: Giorgio Gori (S&D, IT)
4th Vice-Chair: Yvan Verougstraete (Renew, BE)
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Chair: Anna Cavazzini (Greens/EFA, DE)
1st Vice-Chair: Christian Doleschal (EPP, DE)
2nd Vice-Chair: Nikola Minchev (Renew, BG)
3rd Vice-Chair: Maria Grapini (S&D, RO)
4th Vice-Chair: Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz (EPP, PL)
Committee on Transport and Tourism
Chair: Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi (EPP, EL)
1st Vice-Chair: Virginijus Sinkevičius (Greens/EFA, LT)
2nd Vice-Chair: Sophia Kircher (EPP, AT)
3rd Vice-Chair: Elena Kountoura (The Left, EL)
4th Vice-Chair: Matteo Ricci (S&D, IT)
Committee on Regional Development
Chair: Adrian-Dragoş Benea (S&D, RO)
1st Vice-Chair: Gabriella Gerzsenyi (EPP, HU)
2nd Vice-Chair: Nora Mebarek (S&D, FR)
3rd Vice-Chair: Francesco Ventola (ECR, IT)
4th Vice-Chair: Ľubica Karvašová (Renew, SK)
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
Chair: Veronika Vrecionová (ECR, CZ)
1st Vice-Chair: Daniel Buda (EPP, RO)
2nd Vice-Chair: Norbert Lins (EPP, DE)
3rd Vice-Chair: Eric Sargiacomo (S&D, FR)
4th Vice-Chair: will be elected at a forthcoming meeting
Committee on Fisheries
Chair: Carmen Crespo Díaz (EPP, ES)
1st Vice-Chair: Sander Smit (EPP, NL)
2nd Vice-Chair: Giuseppe Milazzo (ECR, IT)
3rd Vice-Chair: Stéphanie Yon-Courtin (Renew, FR)
4th Vice-Chair: Jessica Polfjärd (EPP, SE)
Committee on Culture and Education
Chair: Nela Riehl (Greens/EFA, DE)
1st Vice-Chair: Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski (EPP, PL)
2nd Vice-Chair: Emma Rafowicz (S&D, FR)
3rd Vice-Chair: Diana Riba I Giner (Greens/EFA, ES)
4th Vice-Chair: Hristo Petrov (Renew, BG)
Committee on Legal Affairs
Chair: Ilhan Kyuchyuk (Renew, BG)
1st Vice-Chair: Marion Walsmann (EPP, DE)
2nd Vice-Chair: Mario Mantovani (ECR, IT)
3rd Vice-Chair: Lara Wolters (S&D, NL)
4th Vice-Chair: Emil Radev (EPP, BG)
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Chair: Javier Zarzalejos (EPP, ES)
1st Vice-Chair: Marina Kaljurand (S&D, EE)
2nd Vice-Chair: Charlie Weimers (ECR, SE)
3rd Vice-Chair: Alessandro Zan (S&D, IT)
4th Vice-Chair: Estrella Galán (The Left, ES)
Committee on Constitutional Affairs
Chair: Sven Simon (EPP, DE)
1st Vice-Chair: Gabriele Bischoff (S&D, DE)
2nd Vice-Chair: Adrián Vázquez Lázara (EPP, ES)
3rd Vice-Chair: Charles Goerens (Renew, LU)
4th Vice-Chair: Péter Magyar (EPP, HU)
Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality
Chair: Lina Gálvez (S&D, ES)
1st Vice-Chair: Dainius Žalimas (Renew, LT)
2nd Vice-Chair: Irene Montero (The Left, ES)
3rd Vice-Chair: Rosa Estaràs Ferragut (EPP, ES)
4th Vice-Chair: Predrag Fred Matić (S&D, HR)
Committee on Petitions
Chair: Bogdan Rzońca (ECR, PL)
1st Vice-Chair: Dolors Montserrat (EPP, ES)
2nd Vice-Chair: Fredis Beleris (EPP, EL)
3rd Vice-Chair: Nils Ušakovs (S&D, LV)
4th Vice-Chair: Cristina Guarda (Greens/EFA, IT)
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Jul 24, 2024 23:16:05 GMT
A low bar if ever I saw one. I think that's unfair. Namur, Dinant, Ghent, Leuven, Hasselt, Aalst, Ostende, Knokke, De Haan, Ypres...all fabulous places. Mons, Charleroi, La Louviere, Jemappes and the Liège satellite towns (Flémalle, Grace-Hollogne, Seraing) are awful, especially the latter. You know your onions. |
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Post by Foggy on Jul 25, 2024 0:20:24 GMT
EU Parliament committees' chairs and vice-chairs Committee on Culture and Education
3rd Vice-Chair: Diana Riba I Giner (Greens/EFA, ES) Her surname is Riba i Giner, with a lower case i. Autocorrect often has a tough time accepting this. |
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Post by riccimarsh on Jul 25, 2024 0:48:00 GMT
EU Parliament committees' chairs and vice-chairs Committee on Culture and Education
3rd Vice-Chair: Diana Riba I Giner (Greens/EFA, ES) Her surname is Riba i Giner, with a lower case i. Autocorrect often has a tough time accepting this. A list of 120 names and political parties that include an incredible number of diacritics, but the one capitalisation error (not even a typo) is spotted. Ain’t no-one getting away with anything on this forum. Great work from both of you. Bravo. |
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