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    Guinea

    A debate about Parliament's responsibility after the massacre with Florent Geel, FIDH desk Officer for AfricaVideoconference with Thierno SOW, Chairman of the Organisation guinéenne des droits de l'Homme (OGDH) The event is co-organised by MEPs Isabella Lövin, Greens/EFA - Sirpa Pietikäinen, EPP ...
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    EU Fisheries Control Regulation

    Raül Romeva, Green MEP and EU Parliament fisheries control rapporteur, is satisfied with fisheries control improvements that have been agreed by EU fisheries ministers. But further effective provisions were allowed to slip the net.
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    SNP MEP urges success on European farm price and margin observatory

    SNP MEP and member of the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee Alyn Smith has today (Wednesday) urged fellow MEPs to back his amendment to the EU budget creating a "European Farm Prices and Margin Observatory" with a budget of 1.5million euro to report upon the gap between the price...
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    Brazilian beef still leaves bad taste in Brussels

    SNP Member of the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee Alyn Smith has today (Tuesday) hailed a decision by the Agriculture Committee to haul the European Commission back to the floor of the full Parliament in Strasbourg to justify the continued refusal to ban Brazilian beef imports on grounds...
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    Natura 2000 - Biodiversity

    A study presented to the European Parliament petitions committee highlights how EU Member States are often reticent to protect habitats and biodiversity according to their obligations under EU law. National reports include cases from Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the UK.
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    No EU cash for dictator

    SNP MEP and Party President Ian Hudghton has welcomed a vote by the European Parliament's Fisheries Committee to hold up the payment of more than £400,000 a year to the military dictatorship in Guinea.  The Fisheries Committee had been due to approve the payment this week as part of ...
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    SNP success on 'EID Relief Fund' and farm prices EU budget boost

    SNP MEP Alyn Smith has today (Wednesday) hailed a vote in the Parliament's Agriculture Committee on the EU budget, which saw his amendment to create a €125,000,000 "EID Relief" fund for farmers coping with the costs of implementing EID backed by the Committee. A further Smith amendment to...
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    E-fa Strasbourg Round-Up September 2009

    This week in Strasbourg: 14 - 17 SeptemberThe European Parliament has been meeting in Strasbourg this week. Issues on the agenda have included the re-appointment of José Manuel Barroso as EU Commission President, milk prices and the problems facing the agricultural sector, the future of car manufac...
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    Crisis in the dairy farming sector

    The Greens/EFA endorse the action milk farmers and call on the European Commission to immediately stop the gradual increase of milk quota and to reduce milk quota by at least 3% as a measure of urgency. They also call on the Commission to fulfil the EU's commitment to end export subsidies, and to phase out market intervention measures whi…
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    Forest fires in southern Europe and their consequences and the conclusions to draw for prevention and alert measures

    Tabled by Michail Tremopoulos, François Alfonsi and Raul RomevaOn behalf of the Greens/EFA Group The European Parliament, – having regard to its resolutions of 7 September 2006 on forest fires and floods, 5 September 2002 on floods in Europe , 14 April 2005 on the drought in Portugal, 12 ...