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Seal product trade ban

The European Parliament's internal market committee today voted on proposals from the European Commission to adapt the EU's ban on the trade in seal products, with a view to making the ban properly compliant with World Trade Organization rules. Commenting after the vote, Greens/EFA spokesperson Igor...
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TiSA international services agreement

Yesterday, Wikileaks released 17 secret texts of the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) negotiations (1), including annexes covering a wide range of issues and sectors but also a document on member states exceptions from the liberalisation requirement. The leak came on the same day as ministers dis...
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Justice Peace and Equality for Israel and Palestine

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OLAF Supervisory Committee’s annual report 2014

Tabled by Bart Staes on behalf of the Greens/EFA group, The European Parliament, –        having regard to Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 September 2013 concerning investigations conducted by the European ...
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Situation in Hungary

Tabled by Ulrike Lunacek, Judith Sargentini, Monika Vana, Bodil Ceballos, Igor Soltes, Benedek Jávor, Ernest Urtasun on behalf of the Greens/EFA group The European Parliament, – having regard to the preamble to the Treaty on European Union, in particular the second and the fourth to seventh ind...
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Spain, no rule of law?

-           The conference “Spain, no rule of law?” took place at the European Parliament two days after the controversial booing of the Spanish anthem at Camp Nou stadium -           Judge Santia...
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EFA Group - Visit to Israel and Palestine

MEPs from the EFA Group in the European Parliament are visiting Israel and Palestine this week as part of a fact finding mission to the region. The MEPs include Josep-Maria Terricabras (President of the EFA Group), Jill Evans (Vice-President), Ernest Maragall, Jordi Sebastià and Alyn Smith. They a...
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EU-Russia

Yesterday evening it was revealed that the Russian government has a blacklist of EU politicians who are prevented from entering Russia. The list includes current Greens/EFA group president Rebecca Harms, Green MEP Heidi Hautala, who is a former president of the Greens/EFA group and a former Finnish ...
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Hunger strike for Occitan language

Catalan MEP and President of the EFA Group in the European Parliament, Josep-Maria Terricabras has paid tribute to Aquitaine regional councillor David Grosclaude. M. Grosclaude, of Partit Occitan, is on hunger strike in protest at the lack of official support for the Occitan language, and notably th...
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