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8th September 2015 / Politics / Trade and Investment

Politics: "YES" or "NO"?TTIP debate in the Czech Republic (updated)

Here are some recently published opinions in chronological order. MEP Luděk Niedermayer (TOP09) - in Czech TTIP: Removing Barriers - Cecilia Malmström: Getting TTIP Facts Straight For SMEs - in English Czech Members of the European Parliament Jan Zahradil (ODS), Pavel Poc (ČSSD), Dita Charanzov...

7th September 2015 / Politics / Digital Agenda

Politics: Trade agreements and data flows. From hearings international trade, civil liberties committees.

The international trade and civil liberties committees held a hearing on June, 16th to discuss how to reconcile the need for data protection with trade agreements that boost business in the EU, an issue that has gained importance due to the upcoming reform of EU data protection rules... Panel dis...

6th September 2015 / Politics / Tax & Finance

Politics: Euractiv.cz: MEP Ježek on tax policy, migration crisis. MEPs Zdechovský, Niedermayer, Zahradil on migration (updated)

Pressure on quotas killed the debate on migration in the Czech Republic before it started, says Czech Member of the European Parliament Petr Ježek (ANO). "Our countries were closed towards the world outside for forty years. There were attempts at an in-depth discussion of the issue of migration in...