EFA MEP Diana Riba leads the Gender-Based Violence Report
Greens/EFA MEP Diana Riba has been appointed the shadow rapporteur of the GBV report and will have play a key role in the upcoming negotiations.
Riba i Giner has always been a vocal defender of gender equality and has been campaigning for years so the European Parliament would create a report on violence against women like the one curre…
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Help this tiny turtle - stop the pollution of our oceans!
This is a tiny turtle. He wants to grow big one day and have tiny turtles of his own. But it’s not going to be easy. His home is being destroyed: the ocean.
Marcel Kolaja, member of the Czech Pirate Party and Greens/EFA shadow in lead Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, comments on the results of the final round of negotiations between the European Parliament, the EU Commission and the Council of the European Union on the Digital Markets Act.
EU Heads of State and Government Summit 24-25 March and Plenary Debate
The Greens/EFA stand by Ukraine, this war is Putin's war. The Greens/EFA welcome the EU’s unity in response to Putin's war of aggression. The consequences of the energy dependence of many EU states on Russia show once again that energy policy is security policy. We call on the EU heads of state and government to make energy policy part of…
EFA MEP François Alfonsi demands European action to control ISIS prisons in North-East Syria
François Alfonsi, EFA MEP and co-chair of the Kurdish Friendship Group wrote a letter to Josep Borell, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, explaining the increasingly dangerous situation in North-East Syria, and alerted of the repercussions it could have in Europe.
Greens/EFA call for EU energy efficiency and renewable energy strategy
The European Commission published proposals on gas storage and gas prices. For the Greens/EFA, the Commission's proposals for mandatory filling of gas storage facilities can only be a short-term, interim solution. They call on the Commission to present an emergency plan for the energy transition. Energy efficiency must come first.
MEPs vote for pay transparency in ambitious, inclusive & far reaching Directive to support equal pay
The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality voted in favour of the European Parliament's position on the Pay Transparency Directive. The aim of the directive is to establish EU-wide minimum standards on pay transparency measures to enable workers to assert their right to equal pay…
MEPs vote for stronger obligations for climate and human rights
The European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee adopted its report on the proposal for a directive on sustainability reporting by companies. The European Parliament is ensuring that the largest companies, including the most polluting ones such as oil and gas companies and cement companies, adopt strategies that are compatible with the f…
Quote from Ernest Urtasun on today's ECOFIN Council
Today’s Economic and Financial Affairs Council is expected to reach an agreement on the global minimum tax level for multinationals. Please see a quote from Ernest Urtasun MEP, Greens/EFA Group Vice President and member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Subcommittee on Fiscal Affairs.
Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary week included the deterioration of the situation of refugees as a consequence of the Russian aggression against Ukraine, a debate on the EU's role in a changing world and the security situation of Europe following the Russian aggression and invasion on Ukraine, with Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas…
