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    Data surveillance
    Press release |

    Pegasus: Greens/EFA call for inquiry committee

    The Pegasus scandal reveals nothing less than the illegal and abusive use of cyber-surveillance weapons against our fellow citizens. This is why we are calling for an inquiry committee to expose the extent of these illegal hacking practices. Starting with establishing which European countries use Pegasus or similar spyware.
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    Event |

    Race to the bottom? Biometric technology, sports events and human rights in Europe

    Are sports events a gateway into normalising the use of surveillance technologies in our cities? What is the impact of biometric mass surveillance, such as high-tech facial recognition in public spaces, on your human rights? Is it even legal, and if not, how can the use of this intrusive technology be justified by governments across Europ…
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    Study |

    Impacts of the use of biometric and behavioural mass surveillance technologies on Human Rights and the Rule of Law

    Public authorities justify the implementation and further development of biometric and behavioural technology as a need that requires no discussion, in order to fight terrorism and ensure security. This study includes a summary of the legal framework that regulates the use of such technologies, in addition to an analysis of the ways in wh…
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    European Parliament Strasbourg
    News |

    Plenary Flash 17-20 January 2022

    The plenary session will be marked by the commemoration for President David Sassoli. On the agenda of the plenary : election of the EP President, Digital Services Act, final vote on animal transport inquiry committee, the situation in Kazakhstan, the presentation of the programme of the French Presidency,...
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    Belarus OUT (Photo by Leonid Shcheglov / BELTA / AFP)
    A picture taken on November 8, 2021 shows migrants at the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region.
    News |

    Plenary Flash 13-16 December 2021

    During this plenary session, the European Parliament will debate the measures to tackle the situation on the Belarusian borders, the Digital Market Act, the situation at the Ukrainian border, gender-based cyberviolence, sexual and reproductive health and rights in Poland, the rule of law in Slovenia, ...
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    Belarus OUT (Photo by Leonid Shcheglov / BELTA / AFP)
    A picture taken on November 8, 2021 shows migrants at the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region.
    Press release |

    Commission plans tantamount to accepting pushbacks

    The European Commission has just announced that it will allow Poland, Lithuania and Latvia to ‘re-direct’ asylum seekers to a formal border crossing point, where they can be detained for up to 20 weeks. The proposal implicitly endorses the current practice of pushbacks at the borders with Belarus, which brings asylum seekers, including fa…
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    © European Union 2017 - Source : EP
    European Parliament
    News |

    Debriefing of the November plenary session

    Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary week included the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), 2022 budgetary procedure, the outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow, the critical materials INI report, taxonomy, condemning Police Violence against Romani people, the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Belarus debate and address by Sviatlana Tsikhanousk…
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    Daina LE LARDIC © European Union 2021 - Source : EP EP-120473A
    VdL, Morawiecki walking into plenary
    Letter |

    Leaders of political groups address a letter to Commission President on the Polish recovery plan

    In a letter sent on 15 November to Mrs von der Leyen, Presidents of the political groups in the European Parliament demand that the Commission, as guardian of the Treaties, refrains from approving the Polish recovery plan until all conditions under the Recovery and Resilience Regulation are met.
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    Press release |

    Government’s attacks on women’s rights has deadly consequences

    The European Parliament has voted in favour of standing in solidarity with the thousands and thousands of Polish citizens who, last week, took to the streets in protest against draconian Polish abortion laws. The restrictive law is just one year old but it has already cost at least two women's lives.
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    Press release |

    EU Parliament sues EU Commission before the European Court of Justice

    The European Parliament today, as called for by the Greens/EFA Group, proceeded with legal action against the European Commission for failing to uphold European law, under Article 265 of the treaties. Pursuing legal action had already been approved by the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, which made it a condition of the…