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Climate policy/emissions trading

In the context of today's informal council of EU environment ministers in Dublin and following last week's vote in the European Parliament on the EU's emissions trading scheme, Greens/EFA co-president Rebecca Harms stated: "EU climate policy is at crisis point following last week's chaotic EP v...
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Greens/EFA Round-up

Greens/EFA priorities for the Strasbourg plenary week included emissions trading scheme, emissions from flights, airport ground handling, capping bank bonuses and increasing banking transparency, preventing dolphin by-catch, Hungary and democratic freedoms, the fall out from the Cyprus bail-out debacle, EU enlargement progress assessed, …
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Brussels Agenda

Greens/EFA priorities for the week include EU rules on mortgages, tackling illegal fisheries, threatened cod stocks and EU quotas, Dalligate, tobacco lobbying and OLAF, tackling rising youth unemployment, EU fingerprint database and civil liberties,...
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Serbia-Kosovo

Commenting on the agreement between Serbia and Kosovo on normalising relations that was reached today, Green MEP and EP draftsperson/rapporteur on Kosovo Ulrike Lunacek stated: "This historic agreement is a breakthrough for the entire region and paves the way for further progress towards EU int...
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youth in crisis

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One year of European Citizens' Initiative

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One year of European Citizens' Initiative in practice

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Facebook terms and conditions unfair and not valid in Europe

A reply from the European Commission to a question submitted by an N-VA Member of the European Parliament shows that a lot of terms and conditions Facebook imposes on its European users are not valid in the European Union. MEP Mark Demesmaeker said: "Even more so, some of the conditions are ou...
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EU-Kosovo

The European Parliament today adopted a report on the EU accession progress of Kosovo. The report, by Green draftsperson/rapporteur Ulrike Lunacek, includes a call for a resolution of the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, which again broke down with no agreement last night. Commenting on the report and the si...
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EU enlargement

The European Parliament today adopted its annual report on the accession progress of Serbia. Commenting on the report and the ongoing talks on a normalisation of relations between Serbia and Kosovo, Green foreign affairs spokesperson Franziska Brantner said: "Today's vote is clearly overshadowe...