Sentences with phrase «week in parliament»

It's another low key agenda for next week in Parliament.

I've talked to two Conservative MPs in the last week in parliament who are now talking about the threat of annihilation of the Conservative party at the next election.»

Normally at this stage I'd encourage you to look at what's coming up next week in parliament.

Only a half week in parliament as the MPs prepare for their recess.

It seems as if everything but the state of the economy is set to be discussed this week in parliament.

The deputy prime minister's press conference came as Cameron issued a radio interview in which he desperately tried to move on from the parliamentary manoeuvres over gay marriage and Europe which dominated the last few weeks in parliament.

In recent weeks in Parliament, on prime - time television and in forums, Roberts has been flaunting his rejection of scientific evidence like a dodgy second - hand car salesman with a sideline hawking homeopathy remedies to astrologists.

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While approval is not a given since the ruling coalition government led by Abe's LDP does not have a majority in the upper house of parliament, most analysts do not foresee any problems given signs this week that main opposition parties will not block the nominations.

Bourses in Europe were lower Monday as investors took a cautious approach as they came to terms with a hung parliament in the U.K. and awaited a meeting of the Federal Reserve later this week.

The ongoing dispute between so - called Remainers and Brexiteers about this relationship took another turn last week when a majority of the U.K.'s House of Lords — the upper house of parliament — voted that the U.K. should stay in a customs union with the EU, something the government under Prime Minister Theresa May has said would not happen.

Xi began his second five - year term as party chief in October and at the end of the week will be formally appointed by parliament.

Andreas Schwab, a German Christian Democrat lawmaker at the European Parliament, and Spanish liberal Ramon Tremosa unveiled a draft of their resolution last week, saying separating search engines from other commercial services would ensure a level playing field for rivals in Europe.

Talks will take place in the «coming weeks» about a transition deal, which Verhofstadt believes will be a «continuation of the existing rules, the existing policies, without [the UK] having a say» because Britain will no longer be a member of the European Parliament, adding that the EU is not against a transition period.

No group managed to secure a majority in the Italian parliament, heralding weeks of political uncertainty and raising the prospect of a government between sworn enemies - the center - right led by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and the center - left under Pier Luigi Bersani.

Last week, Marietje Schaake, a member of the European Parliament for the Dutch Democratic Party in the Netherlands, wrote to the European Commission asking if it planned to investigate the company's use of Greyball.

ATHENS, Greece (AP)-- Greece's left - led government submitted to Parliament late Wednesday a new package of creditor - demanded tax hikes and reforms worth 1.8 billion euros ($ 2 billion), which it hopes to have approved by lawmakers in time for a meeting of European officials next week.

«We're encouraged by the fact the level of housing starts has come down to slightly below demographic demand, as we see right now, there's still more adjustments to go,» he said in testimony to Parliament last week.

For the next week, the federal Liberals will be holding their annual «Summer Caucus» in Edmonton and the party's 37 Members of Parliament be criss - crossing the Canadian West, hosting events, promoting local candidates and knocking on doors.

Its safeguards are not safe... similar legislation's been rejected several times in Westminster, and a similar bill was rejected by the Scottish parliament just a couple of weeks ago.

He told Parliament, which resumed on Monday for its final two - week session of the year, that nothing in the bill threatened religious freedoms.

In Parliament, Jim Dobbin campaigned for a reduction in the upper limit at which women may abort their unborn child, from 24 to 13 weekIn Parliament, Jim Dobbin campaigned for a reduction in the upper limit at which women may abort their unborn child, from 24 to 13 weekin the upper limit at which women may abort their unborn child, from 24 to 13 weeks.

The protesters sang patriotic songs and chanted slogans against Croatia's centre - right government, which last week approved the Istanbul convention that was adopted by the Council of Europe in 2011, but still has not been ratified by Croatia's parliament.

The Houses of Parliament in central London will be turned red by floodlights next week, as part of a campaign highlight religious intolerance.

Ministers were warned during a debate in Parliament this week over a host of countries and minorities affected by persecution.

The news this week of further Brexit wrangling in Parliament, complemented by the bungling of the foreign secretary in matters dealing with a British national presently in prison in Iran, don't really fill one with hope about how smoothly the transition to life outside the European Union will go for the United Kingdom, in light of the current government.

The European Parliament's ENVI Committee has this week voted through a proposal for EU renewable energy policy to be brought in line with the waste hierarchy.

An agreement was expected by Easter and with less than five weeks of sitting left in Parliament, the speculation is that an agreement must be reached in the next two or three weeks - or a mandatory code could be imposed on them.

Paul McCartney's forthcoming speech to the European Parliament later this week was the focus of an article in the Independent on Sunday.

10/6/2017 — St. Helena, CA — As part of an ongoing effort to improve trade relations with Canada, members and staff of the Napa Valley Vintners (NVV), along with a representative of the California Wine Institute, met this week in Ottawa with Canadian trade officials and members of the Canadian Parliament.

Last week Sustain submitted evidence to the Trade Bill Committee in Parliament.

In March, the European Parliament's Environment committee rejected the traffic - light system by 32 to 30 votes and that Committee's report is due to be discussed and adopted by MEPs next week in StrasbourIn March, the European Parliament's Environment committee rejected the traffic - light system by 32 to 30 votes and that Committee's report is due to be discussed and adopted by MEPs next week in Strasbourin Strasbourg.

'' See this week's Athletics Weekly, out on Thursday Feb 21, for in - depth news and photographs from the NIA and the South of England Cross Country Championships from Parliament Hill

It is noteworthy that Esther de Lange was a lobbyist for German fruit juice and alcohol trade associations before entering Parliament and in 2010 sponsored Breakfast Week for the European Breakfast Cereal Association (which includes baby food giant, Nestlé).

If enough MEPs support the objections, tabled by Green MEP Keith Taylor, the proposals will be voted on by the whole Parliament next week in Strasbourg.

But these were rejected by his fellow MEPs in the European Parliament's Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee (ENVI) last week, meaning only the objection to sugary baby food was put to the vote at today's plenary session in Strasbourg.

«We are dismayed the terms of the review were only formally made available almost three weeks after the review was announced and only days before an announcement of the results of the review are expected in parliament,» Sikh Federation chairman Bhai Amrik Singh said in a letter to David Cameron.

Both Mr Brown and Mr Cameron have attempted to court Mr Clegg in the early weeks of his leadership, with the Liberal Democrats set to hold the balance of power in the event of a hung parliament.

Parliament is in recess until mid-June for a two - week long Whitsuntide recess, as the coalition prepares the many bills outlined in the Queen's Speech for publication.

I was delighted to learn that he was now working in Parliament for a newly - elected MP and promised him to take him out for a few drinks later that week.

Parliament's constitutional committee was meeting to discuss a government - backed proposal to strip MPs of their immunity, after last week's session also broke up in violence.

Chris Grayling's plan to scrap judicial review for anyone but the very rich has been rumbling away in parliament for a few weeks now.

Perhaps if the Lib Dems had responded to their members concerns about this sort of policy earlier in the parliament they could have avoided their annihilation last week.

«I'm very pleased with my result,» he says modestly, back in parliament, several weeks later.

This news comes a few weeks after President John Mahama told Parliament in his state of the nation that his government had overcome the four - year old crisis following a fairly stable power supply since January.

But he then pointed out he had added: «but we will seek to ensure that it is brought in at the latest in the first legislative week of the new parliament in June».

Although parliament has returned from its Easter recess, this week has hardly been a normal one in politics, with the funeral of Baroness Thatcher dominating in characteristic fashion.

Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has threatened to leak Afia Schwarzenegger naked pictures in the coming week.

According to Hon. Kwabena Mintah Akandoh Member of Parliament for Juanoso, earlier this week he together with his counsel appeared in court in connection with a case he Hon. Akandoh and Hon. Ernest Norgbe Member of Parliament for Ashaiman sent to the Supreme Court for interpretation regarding Ghana's National Service law.

I interviewed Yeo last week and was surprised by how unabashed Yeo is about the large amount of cash he receives every year from the renewable energy firms whose cause he advances in parliament.

Speculation about the Tories abandoning their Liberal Democrat partners and attempting to rule as a minority in the final stages of the parliament has been growing in parliament in recent weeks.