• -Banking reform: votes on bonus caps, capital and loans

• -ETS: Proposed freeze on auctions of a portion of CO2 emission quotas

• -2011 discharge of several EU agencies and bodies

• -Trade and development

VoteWatch Europe, the independent organisation which tracks the voting records of Members of the European Parliament and of the Council of Ministers, is pleased to invite you to its post-Strasbourg plenary session debriefing.

The briefing will take place this Friday 15 March from 10.00 to 11.00, exceptionally at the premises of Burson-Marsteller Brussels, 37 Square de Meeûs, Brussels. 

Votes to be analysed include:

• -Multi-annual Financial Framework and 2014 EU Budget

• -CAP reform

• -Economic governance "Two-pack"

• -Gender equality

• -Composition of the EP after the 2014 European elections

• -Consumer affairs

INVITATION
Bicameral politics at the EU level:
How the votes of MEPs compare with those of Member States
VoteWatch Europe special report

presented by report co-author Simon Hix,
Chairman, VoteWatch Europe
Professor of European and Comparative Politics, LSE
 
  Friday 25 January 2013
Polak Room, Résidence Palace,
155 Rue de la Loi, 1040 Brussels
 
Coffee and registration from 10.30 onwards
Launch event starts at 11.00 sharp and ends at 12.00.
 
What is the balance of power in the Council and in the EP?
What were the major disagreements between the Council and the EP?
Which MEPs disagreed most with ‘their’ national governments?

The briefing will take place this Friday 23 November from 10.00 to 11.00, exceptionally at the European Policy Centre's Max Kohnstamm room, 4th floor Résidence Palace, 155 Rue de la Loi, Brussels. 
 
Votes to be analysed include:

·         Future of the Economic and Monetary Union​

·         Environmental impact  of shale gas and shale oil extraction activities

·         Conservation of fisheries resources

·         European Parliament 2014 elections

·         Common Security and Defense Policy

These votes can and will be analysed only if they are held by roll call. Except in the case of final votes on legislative files, votes only take place by roll call at the request of a political group or group of MEPs.

Doru Frantescu, VoteWatch Europe policy director, will present an analysis of the outcome of key votes being held in Strasbourg this week. He will show which coalitions of MEPs, national delegations and political groups were instrumental in passing - or blocking (elements of) these proposals, and how this relates to earlier votes on the same or similar topics. Michiel van Hulten, VoteWatch Europe managing director, will chair the event.
 
Please confirm your attendance by sending an email to events@votewatcheurope.eu no later than Wednesday 21 November, 12.00. 
 
For more information please contact Doru Frantescu, VoteWatch Europe policy director on +32 472 657924.
 
VoteWatch Europe is funded by grants from the Open Society Institute and the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. It is supported by Burson-Marsteller and White and Case. 

VoteWatch Europe, the independent organisation which tracks the voting records of Members of the European Parliament and of the Council of Ministers, is pleased to invite you to its post-Strasbourg plenary session debriefing.

In view of the two plenary sessions taking place this week, the briefing will exceptionally take place not this Friday but on Tuesday 30 October from 10.00 to 11.00 at the Brussels Press Club, 95 Rue Froissart, 1040 Brussels. 
 
Votes to be analysed include:

·  Annual and long-term EU budget

·  Markets in financial instruments

·  Future of EU development policy

·  Conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources

These votes can and will be analysed only if they are held by roll call. Except in the case of final votes on legislative files, votes only take place by roll call at the request of a political group or group of MEPs.

Doru Frantescu, VoteWatch Europe policy director, will present an analysis of the outcome of key votes being held in Strasbourg this week. He will show which coalitions of MEPs, national delegations and political groups were instrumental in passing - or blocking (elements of) these proposals, and how this relates to earlier votes on the same or similar topics. Michiel van Hulten, VoteWatch Europe managing director, will chair the event.
 
Please confirm your attendance by sending an email to events@votewatcheurope.eu no later than Friday 26 October, 12.00. 
 
For more information please contact Doru Frantescu, VoteWatch Europe policy director on +32 472 657924.

This is a regular event aimed at showing to the stakeholders, NGOs, journalists and anyone interested how each of the political groups and individual MEPs voted on some of the most important issues put to vote in the European Parliament. 

Participants will be able to see in a nice visual format who supported and who opposed a particular law or key amendment. 

• Intergovernmental agreements between Member States and third countries in the field of energy

• Energy efficiency

• Emergency autonomous trade preferences for Pakistan

• Enhanced intra-EU solidarity in the field of asylum

• Common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products

• Common system of taxation applicable to interest and royalty payments