Written question to the European Commission On 1 January 2021, new EU rules entered into force banning the export of unsorted plastic waste from the EU to non‑OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries. In recent years, there has been a huge growth in the production of plastic and consequently the amount of plastic […]
Written question to the European Commission In its proposal for a Council recommendation on strengthened cooperation against vaccine-preventable diseases (COM(2018)0244), the Commission set out its intention to examine the feasibility of developing a common vaccination card for people in the EU by no later than 2021. This vaccination card would take into account national vaccination […]
Written question to the European Commission On 23 October 2020, Der Spiegel published its investigation entitled ‘EU Border Agency Frontex Complicit in Greek Refugee Pushback Campaign’. During the LIBE Committee of 6 July 2020, Mr Leggeri denied any knowledge of pushbacks by the Greek authorities, except for one event he labelled as a ‘misunderstanding’. Despite the above, […]
Written question to the European Commission The EU is carrying out a twinning project with the Israeli government to support the implementation of Israel’s waste management strategy, including through the transfer of know-how on waste-to-energy (WtE) incineration. Israel’s first WtE plant is to be built in the illegal settlement of Ma’ale Adumim. It would burn […]
Written question to the European Commission On 18 November 2020, the German newspaper Der Spiegel published a report on illegal push‑backs at the Croatian border. The report documents how Croatian border officials forcibly pushed asylum seekers back across the border into Bosnia and Herzegovina. Moreover, Frontex has been recording videos at Croatia’s external border, where push‑backs and […]
Written question to the European Commission The Slovenian Government is putting the nation’s film and audio-visual creative industry in serious jeopardy due to its repressive economic policy, bureaucratic obstacles and its lack of commitment to funding the Slovenian Film Centre. Since March 2020, the Government has blocked the majority of financial state budget transfers intended […]
Written question to the European Commission The OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a series of tests in reading, mathematics and science, which monitor performance of 15-year-olds every three years. Based on PISA results, the effectiveness of a country’s education system is measured. Within the EU, PISA results are particularly important, because they […]
