Avenir Democrates MEPs jean-Marie Cavada, Janelly Fourtou, and Claire Gibault regret the rejection of their amendments on Stavros Lambrinidis Report (PSE) which aims to reinforce securily and liberties on the Internet, adopted last thursday. (...)

During the plenary session in Strasbourg today, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on multilingualism which recognises its importance and highlights it as an asset for the EU. Certain paragraphs of the initial draft report, supported by the EPP, which formulated rather explicit criticisms against the linguistic teaching policy practised in several areas within EU member states were removed thanks to a compromise supported by ALDE, PES and the Greens.

The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling for the practice of female circumcision and genital mutilation to be made illegal in all Member States in the form of laws and administrative provisions, prevention systems, and education and social measures, and in particular, wide dissemination of information regarding the existing protection mechanisms available.