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    Camilo Rueda López (CC BY-ND 2.0)
    VAT receipts
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    MEPs back measures to fight VAT crime

    The European Parliament has backed the directive on the protection of the financial interests of the EU (or "PIF Directive"). This will reform the collection of VAT for cross-border businesses and will make consistent EU-wide rules on VAT fraud.
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    Instead of attacking NGOs, Member States must offer real solutions

    Joint statement from Italian, French and German Greens/EFA MEPs on the European Interior Ministers' action plan.
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    surveilance
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    Anti-terror measures must not put fundamental rights at risk

    The Greens/EFA group has ensured that the new committee will carefully assess the effects of security measures on fundamental rights.
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    (CC BY-SA 2.0) Dave Dugdale
    Tax report
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    Country-by-country reporting is a major win for tax justice

    The European Parliament has today backed proposals for country-by-country reporting of financial information, a major tool in the fight for tax justice. Country-by-country reporting would require large multinationals operating within the EU to publish financial information for all territories in which they operate, including those outside…
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    Plastic bag, marine litter
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    Clear consensus on the need to end planned obsolescence

    The European Parliament has adopted an own-initiative report from Pascal Durand aimed at extending the life of products to the benefit of consumers and businesses, their employees and the environment.
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    Member States fail to protect public health and environment from endocrine disrupters

    The Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed has today voted to approve new criteria determining hormone-disrupting chemicals used in pesticides. The European Commission's criteria will make it very difficult to identify endocrine disrupters, meaning that few if any products would be removed from the market.
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    Blatant disregard for the banking union rules

    "The European Commission has again shown blatant disregard for the rules of the European Banking Union. There is no legal justification for further banking subsidies from the European Commission, only a clearly political one," says Sven Giegold.
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    Reform of the EU budget is long overdue

    The Greens/EFA co-presidents welcome the fact that the European Commission is now taking steps to reform the EU budget.
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    Action against Google shows EU's collective power

    "This is a good example of how the EU member states can act collectively to clamp down on corporate power; action an individual country may not feel able or willing to do on its own," says Molly Scott Cato.
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    Circumvention of EU Law sets a dangerous precedent

    "This is an outrageous circumvention of the rules of the European Banking Union," says Sven Giegold.