Watch your EP: plenary session of November 2011

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By Anne-Sophie Michel and Arezki Yaiche

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New step towards a greater financial regulation, continuation of research on Nuclear energy and the Durban world conference

What did we learn from last plenary session? Despite the rising opposition against nuclear energy in Europe the EP has voted for the continuation of nuclear research and therefore rejected a call to phase out from nuclear energy.

We also try to understand what is the position of the EU few weeks before the world conference on climate change in Durban.

And then we focus again on economic issues: after the implementation of three European authorities to monitor financial, banking and insurance markets in 2010 by the Commission and the European Parliament, after a push of the EP for a financial transaction tax last spring, while it kept on advocating the implementation of Eurobonds, a new step towards financial regulation has been reached by the MEPs during last plenary session. They voted indeed for short selling limitations as a way of curbing speculation on a country default through Credit default swaps (CDS), adopting the first European regulation in that field.

To debate about all those topics, we had the pleasure to welcome Doru Frantescu from votewach.eu

Watch your EP is recorded within the European Parliament in Brussels and presented by Anne-Sophie Michel and Arezki Yaïche