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Youth Employment

The European Parliament today called for concrete initiatives promoting youth access to the labour market and the strengthening of traineeships, internships and apprenticeships. Commenting on the vote of her report, which was adopted by a large majority, rapporteur Danish MEP Emilie Turunen said: &q...
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Financial Supervision

Joint Debate Report: Sven Giegold - European Securities and Markets Authority (ECON)
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Oil exploration and extractions - risks, liability and regulation

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Strasbourg Flash

Next week's agenda has important issues for the Greens. The SWIFT agreement on the transfer of passenger data will be voted on as will the improved agreement on the External Action Service. There will be reports on financial supervision, including from Green MEP Sven Giegold. Green MEPs will present a study on the environmental risks of G…
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Nuclear energy

Green MEPs have criticised the decision of the Finnish parliament to push ahead with the development of two nuclear reactors, in spite of the major problems encountered in the ongoing development of the Olkiluoto 3 reactor.
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Belgian EU Presidency

Commenting on today's start of the Belgian EU-Presidency Rebecca Harms and Dany Cohn-Bendit, Co-Chairs of the Greens / EFA in the European Parliament, said:"We expect from the Belgians, who are traditionally committed to the European idea, that their presidency becomes a catalyst for the common Euro...
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MEP critical of Spanish Constitutional Court Decision

The Spanish Constitutional Court has passed a judgement striking down 14 articles of the Catalan Statute and reinterpreting 27 more. The statute gave greater power and autonomy for Catalunya.  This statute was approved in a referendum by the citizens of Catalunya, but the Constitutional Court h...
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G20

Commenting on the outcome of the G20 summit in Toronto, Rebecca Harms and Dany Cohn-Bendit, co-chairs of the Greens / EFA group in the European Parliament said:"As expected, there has been no progress at the G20 Summit in Toronto. The lessons from the financial crisis that erupted almost two year...
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Emissions standards for Vans

The Industry Committee of the European Parliament today voted on CO2 regulations for light commercial vehicles. Commenting on the vote, Green MEP Rebecca Harms, President of the Greens/EFA group, said:"In voting for watering down the legislation on van emissions, a majority of the Industry Committee...
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Bank Data Agreement

German Green MEP and member of the Civil Liberties Committee, Jan Philipp Albrecht, comments on the ongoing negotiations between Council, Commission and Parliament over the transfer of bank data to US authorities ("SWIFT agreement"):"Now the cat is out of the bag: The grand coalition of Conservative...