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Real Driving Emissions

Even if you are on the side of the car industry, you cannot accept that a technical committee is adjusting what we decided as co-legislators
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Informal consultation with NGOs on Transparency and Democracy in the EU

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Flawed Reactor Pressure Vessels in the Belgian NPPS Doel 3 and Tihange 2

The nuclear power plant Doel 3 started operation in 1982, Tihange 2 started operation in 1983. Both PWR (pressurized water reactor)-type NPPs are operated by Electrabel, part of the French GDF-Suez Group. In the frame of ultrasonic inspections in 2012 thousands of flaws were detected in the base met...
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Happy New (Tax) Year!

And what a better gift to start 2016 than Monday’s announcement by the European Commission that Belgium will recover €700 million from 35 big companies that received an illegal preferential tax treatment in the past 10 years. It all started 12 months ago when Commissioner Vestager opened an inv...
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EU car pollution rules

A much anticipated vote on draft EU rules on testing pollutant emissions from cars, which was foreseen for next week, will be postponed. The decision was taken at the Conference of Presidents of political groups today and was supported by the EPP and S&D political groups. The vote on the proposa...
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Belgian nuclear reactors

The Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament today presented the third study in a series on the Belgian nuclear reactors Doel 3 and Tihange 2, which was commissioned from materials scientist Dr Ilse Tweer. The study presents new information on flaws in the reactor pressure vessels (1) and underli...
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Poland

The European Commission today announced it is putting Poland under a monitoring procedure under the EU's rule of law framework. The move comes in response to the legal and constitutional changes in Poland regarding the public broadcaster and the judiciary. Commenting on the situation, Greens/EFA co-...
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Better regulation

The Commission 'Better Regulation' package is the centre-piece of its new agenda to change what the Union does, and how it does it. Here is a Green look behind the scenes of this mechanism
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Catalonia's journey to independence

EFA MEPs joined colleagues from the European Free Alliance political party to celebrate the formation of a pro-independence government in Catalonia. The Catalan parliament met on Sunday to elect a new head of government, just hours before the deadline for doing so. This follows elections in Cataloni...
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The circular economy —a transformation for all

Les écologistes estiment que l’économie européenne doit être bénéfique pour les citoyens et la planète. Pour contribuer à créer des emplois, protéger l’environnement et promouvoir la croissance en Europe, l’économie circulaire doit avant tout satisfaire les intérêts des citoyens.