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    Waste crisis in Campania, Italy

    MEPs have raised serious concerns that the region of Campania in Italy is headed towards a new environmental crisis, due to its appalling waste management policy and disregard of EU waste rules. Green MEPs are particularly concerned about an announcement from the Italian government permitting the re...
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    EU budget 2011

    The EU Parliament today voted to adopt a compromise package on the EU's budgets for 2011. The Greens broadly welcomed the vote, which would limit the growth in the EU budgets based while still enabling the EU to respond to the extra demands created by the Lisbon treaty. Commenting on the general out...
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    External Action Service

    The European Parliament approved today the last three legislative texts required to launch the European External Action Service (EEAS) on 1 December 2010 (Staff Regulation, Financial Regulation and the EEAS 2010 budget). After the vote in plenary, Franziska Brantner, foreign affairs co-spokesperson ...
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    Maternity rules

    The European Parliament today voted on a legislative proposal to revise EU rules on the health and safety of pregnant workers, including provisions for minimum maternity and paternity leave (Estrela report). Green MEPs welcomed the vote, which would strengthen EU rules on minimum maternity leave, pr...
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    Economic governance

    The European Parliament today adopted a non-legislative report on economic governance and the revision of the growth and stability pact (Feio report), which sets out the EP position ahead of the debate on legislative proposals on economic governance. After the vote, Belgian Green MEP Philippe Lamber...
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    EU recovery funds and energy

    The European Council and Parliament reached an agreement yesterday afternoon to free up €146 million of uncommitted funds under the 2009 European Energy Recovery Plan to create an instrument to finance energy efficiency and renewable energy initiatives. Green MEPs welcomed the deal, with Greens/EFA...
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    Poverty and income

    The European Parliament is today debating tackling poverty in the context of the European and international years focusing on poverty eradication. MEPs are also set to adopt a non-legislative report (1), which includes a call for an EU framework directive on minimum income, a long-standing Greens/EF...
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    Cloned food

    The European Commission today presented proposals on food from clones, including a proposal for a temporary 5-year ban. The Greens welcomed that the Commission finally recognises the serious concerns with cloning, but regret that the proposal fails to include food from the offspring of cloned animal...
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    Roma expulsions

    The European Commission today announced that it would no longer pursue an infringement procedure against France over its non-implementation of the free movement directive (1). The Greens expressed concern that the Commission could let France off the hook over its opprobrious collective expulsion of ...
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    Sakharov Prize

    Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence (1), the Greens/EFA proposed candidate, has been chosen for the shortlist for this year's Sakharov Prize (2). After the decision (3), Greens/EFA co-president Dany Cohn-Bendit said: "The Greens/EFA group is delighted with tonight's decision to include our candida...