The European Parliament comprises 751 elected Members with serious legislative, budgetary and decision-making powers. Parliament enjoys co-decision powers in major areas of EU law-making, including health, education, transport, agriculture, fisheries and the completion of the internal market. The Parliament plays an active role in monitoring activities within the European Commission and the European Council, and […]

The EU is a unique economic and political partnership between 28 European countries that together cover much of the continent. The EU was created in the aftermath of the Second World War. The first steps were to foster economic cooperation: the idea being that countries who trade with one another become economically interdependent and so […]

Sean Kelly MEP (Ireland South) has raised ‘serious concerns’ about the fishing practices of a number of vessels understood to be under the control of Dutch companies off the South West coast of Ireland.