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Rights in criminal proceedings

New EU rules strengthening the right to information of accused persons and suspects in criminal proceedings were today adopted by the European Parliament's civil liberties committee (1). The Greens welcomed the new rules, which will ensure suspects and accused persons are given information on their ...
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Eurobonds and budget surveillance

The European Commission today presented proposals on the long-awaited Eurobonds, as well as plans for far-reaching EU-level budgetary surveillance. The Greens have long argued for Eurobonds to stanch the debt crisis but believe the delay, and the simultaneous exclusive focus on austerity, has greatl...
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UN climate talks

With this year's UN climate summit (COP17) set to commence in Durban on Monday (28 November), the Greens today set out their demands from the EU (1) at a press conference in the European Parliament. Commenting after the press conference, Green MEP Bas Eickhout, who will represent the Greens on the E...
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MEPs demand action on farm inputs

Alyn Smith MEP, Scottish full member of the European Parliament's Agriculture and Rural Development Committee, has hailed the passage of his colleague Jose Bove's initiative report on farm input costs as sending a strong message to the European Commission and Member States that Europe's farmers dema...
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CFP Debate Begins for real

SNP President Ian Hudghton MEP has called for a fundamental rethink into key aspects of the Common Fisheries Policy as the European Parliament's reform deliberations got underway.  Mr Hudghton's comments were made as the Parliament held its first substantive debate following the publicatio...
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The Gender Dimensions of the Green New Deal

The Greens managed to mainstream ecological concerns and to show that working, living, producing and consuming environmentally friendly is necessary and beneficiary. Now that the Green movement and their parties came so far, they have to manage to mainstream also the other parts of their values, foremost gender equality as a topic releva…
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Banking regulation

EU internal market commissioner Michel Barnier today announced his intention to establish a high-level commission to study further banking regulation, including the separation of banking activities, in response to a Green demand. The Greens welcomed the announcement and called on the Commission to p...
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EU-Morocco fisheries agreement/Western Sahara

The European Parliament fisheries committee today voted to recommend the EP give its consent to a controversial EU-Morocco fisheries agreement (1). The Greens strongly condemned the outcome of the vote, with Raül Romeva stating: "By recommending the EP endorse the controversial EU-Morocco fi...
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Greens launch study on Nuclear "Stress Test"

The “Stress test” of the European nuclear power plants does not meet the requirements of the EU council nor the expectations of the European public. It neither provides a method for comparing the safety of the different plants, nor does it answer how safe European plants actually are.