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    Greece

    Commenting on the result of today's meeting of the EU finance and economy ministers on the Greek budget crisis, Rebecca Harms and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Co-Presidents of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament today said:"We welcome that the EU's finance ministers today made clear that the EU w...
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    Eutelsat - censorship

    EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CROSS-PARTY PRESS RELEASEWe, the undersigned, are gravely concerned about news that Eutelsat, the leading European satellite operator – partly funded by French public funds – has, under pressure from Russia, refused to broadcast the Georgian channel in Russian language, Perviy...
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    SWIFT data transfers

    The Greens have welcomed Parliament's decision to reject an interim agreement for the EU to supply bank transfer data to the US.
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    Bluefin tuna

    European Parliament bluefin tuna rapporteur Raül Romeva has welcomed the instiution's resolution calling for a ban in the international trade of this species. A decision on whether to list bluefin tuna will be made at a CITES meeting in March.
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    UN climate talks

    The European Parliament today adopted a resolution on the outcome of the UN climate talks in Copenhagen last December. The resolution includes a call for the EU to improve its negotiating position and to remove question marks over its pledged climate aid. After the vote Finnish Green MEP Satu Hassi ...
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    European Financial Supervisory Architecture

    The European Parliament rapporteurs on the financial supervision package today presented in a joint press conference in Strasbourg their draft reports for a reform of financial supervision at European level. Commenting on European Parliament proposals, Green MEP Sven Giegold, rapporteur for the Euro...
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    Barroso II Commission

    The new College of European Commissioners has been approved by a majority built around Parliament's three biggest political groups. The Greens/EFA Group, who voted against, judged that - as a whole - the proposed Commission lacks the vision and determination that is needed to face up to the current economic, social and environmental crise…
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    New EU Commission

    "This is the end of politics. Parliament's three biggest groups seem to be only interested in their backroom deals and sharing out the Commission posts between themselves" declared Greens/EFA Co-Presidents Rebecca Harms and Dany Cohn-Bendit.
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    Bank data transfer:

    After today's vote in the EP civil liberties committee, which today recommended rejection of the EU agreement to transfer of SWIFT bank data to the United States, Greens/EFA home affairs expert Jan Philipp Albrecht said:"The EU Parliament's civil liberties committee vote has sent a clear signal in f...
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    EU Commission

    At the meeting of the EP Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community on the 4 February 2010 the chief negotiator of the Commission, responsible for the free trade agreement between the EU and Colombia and Peru, refused to provide further information to MEPs (1). German Green ...