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    Car CO2 emissions/fuel efficiency

    The European Parliament's environment committee today voted on legislative proposals for implementing EU rules on CO2 emissions limits for vehicles for the year 2020 (1). The Greens welcomed the confirmation of the 2020 limit and the call for new EU limits for 2025 but expressed regret that MEPs fai...
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    Passenger data/privacy (PNR)

    The European Parliament's civil liberties committee today voted to reject a proposed EU system to store the private data of airline passengers (PNR), along the lines of a US equivalent. The Greens strongly welcomed the vote, with home affairs and civil liberties spokesperson Jan Philipp Albrecht sta...
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    EU fingerprint database

    The European Parliament's civil liberties committee today endorsed a legislative agreement on the EURODAC database of asylum applicants' and refugees' fingerprints (1), which includes controversial proposals to allow law enforcement authorities access to the database. Commenting after the vote, Gree...
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    Youth unemployment

    The European Parliament's employment and social affairs committee today approved the creation of a new youth funding programme under the European Social Fund: the Youth Employment Initiative. The Greens welcomed the vote, which will make €6 billion available to fund the implementation of the Euro...
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    Olaf and Dalli controversy

    Following a debate in the European Parliament's budgetary control committee on the annual report of the supervisory committee of OLAF, the EU's anti-fraud body, Green MEPs Bart Staes, vice-chair of the EP's budgetary control committee, and José Bové, vice-chair of the EP's agriculture committee st...
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    Illegal fisheries

    The European Parliament's fisheries committee today approved a new rapid procedure for listing countries not cooperating in the fight against illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing (IUU). This clears the way for the Commission to add additional countries to the current list (1) and to publish t...
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    Mortgage rules

    An agreement on new EU rules on mortgages was reached in negotiations between the European Parliament and Council this evening (directive on credit agreements relating to residential properties). The Greens welcomed the agreement, which will provide for greater protection for consumers but cautioned...
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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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    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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    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...