41. The EU commission president must be elected by the full European parliament. 42. The European parliament is due to discuss it in the coming weeks. 43. The European parliament report also claims high-level panels of EU experts were packed with British civil servants who provided unreliable testimony. 44. The final version is a compromise between the EU governments and the European parliament. 45. The document also calls for creating a second chamber of the European parliament that would group national government ministers. 46. The European parliament will vote this month whether to freeze ECHO funds for next year until the fraud allegations have been cleared up. 47. The European record industry on Monday urged the European parliament to tighten a proposed new law aimed at protecting copyrights on digital media such as the Internet. 48. The European parliament threatens to veto its customs union agreement. 49. The European parliament votes next week on a new labeling law for gene-modified foods. 50. The law must be approved by the European parliament. |