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    Child Abuse

    The Greens/EFA home affairs expert in the European Parliament, Jan Philipp Albrecht, comments on the censorship plan by EU home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmström to filter websites:"Commission and council must abandon their plans for an EU internet censorship directive. Filtering certain ...
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    EU Summit

    Today, divisions between the Member States led to call for the IMF, a humiliating act of weakness on the part of European leaders. After the failure to play any role at the climate talks in Copenhagen, this is the second time that the European Union has shown its helplessness.
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    Eurozone and public finances

    In its annual resolution on the Eurozone and Public Finances 2009, the EU Parliament has called for a series of measures to strengthen public finances. Green MEP Sven Giegold, Parliament rapporteur for the resolution, commented: "Today is a good day for public finances and a bad one for speculators...
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    SWIFT data transfers

    Commenting on today's Commission decision for a new negotiation mandate on providing SWIFT bank transfer data to the US authorities, Green MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht said:"I welcome that the new EU Commission negotiation mandate has at last explicitly recognised that Parliament has a role to play in t...
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    Staes report

    The Budgetary Control Committee of the European Parliament today voted on the Report of Green MEP Bart Staes on the budgetary discharge for the year 2008 for the European parliament.
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    Mega-Trucks

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    Bluefin tuna

    Under the conomic pressures of the fishing industry and the Japanese sushi market, a majority at the CITES conference today rejected a ban in the international trade of the species.
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    Energy security

    The EP Industry and Energy committee today voted on a report from Spanish MEP Vidal Quadras on a new regulation to enhance security of gas supply in the EU. This regulation comes as a response to the lack of coordination between EU Member States during the last Ukraine-Russia disputes on gas transit...
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    Food labelling

    The EU Parliament 'ENVI' committee has adopted a report that includes several improvements on information to consumers. MEPs stopped short of approving a 'traffic light' system that would provide consumer-friendly indications on salt, sugar, fat and calorie content.
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    Environment and climate

    The EU can and should increase its emissions reductions target, according to a new study by CE Delft, commiissioned by the Greens/EFA Group. Green MEPs are calling for the EU to immediately adopt a 30% domestic reductions target by 2020.