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    Green Troika in Athens

    Since the beginning of the financial and Eurocrisis, the Greens have consistently criticised the one-sided austerity focus of the response being pushed by centre-right governments in Europe. In this context and after the second Greek bailout at the end of last month, the Greens/EFA ...
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    Air passenger rights

    The European Parliament today adopted a report calling for more EU action to strengthen air passenger rights by Green rapporteur (draftsperson) Keith Taylor. Commenting after the vote, UK Green MEP Keith Taylor said: "Despite some important improvements, air passengers often still get a raw de...
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    Earth Hour - We Will If EU Will

    For Earth Hour 2012, the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament is making a commitment to ensure the EU commits to real measures to cut our energy consumption for good, and not just one hour
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    Mega-trucks

    EU transport commissioner Siim Kallas today announced he would suspend a planned reversal of EU policy on heavier and longer trucks, so-called gigaliners, with a view to legalising their cross-border use. Speaking in the European Parliament transport committee, the commissioner stated he would recon...
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    Terrorism

    There is some debate about the fight against terrorism after the attacks by Mohamed M. in Toulouse. Commenting on demands by conservatives for more data retention schemes, Green home affairs expert Jan Philipp Albrecht said: "The calls by anti-terrorism bureaucrats and home affairs ministers f...
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    Brussels Agenda

    Priorities for the Greens/EFA group this week include the democratic scale back in Hungary, the next step in the fight against ACTA, protecting passenger data, repression in Belarus, strenghtening air passenger rights and marking Document Freedom Day
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    Save the fish

    We must rebuild fish stocks so that we can eat fish in the future, have healthy ocean ecosystems and sustainable jobs for fishermen. Today, three out of four fish stocks in the EU are overfished and 60 percent of the fish we eat comes from imports. The EU is reforming its fisheries policy and there is one thing we have to do: Save the fis…
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    Press release |

    Mega trucks

    EU transport commissioner Siim Kallas is set to announce a reversal of EU policy on heavier and longer trucks, so-called gigaliners, with a view to legalising their cross-border use. The commissioner is set to propose a completely new interpretation of the existing EU legislation (Directive 96/53/EC...
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    Greens/EFA Round-up

    Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary session included the state of nuclear power on the Fukushima anniversary, strengthening the role of cooperatives in European society, the recent elections in Russia, government violence in Syria, the low carbon roadmap...
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    Brussels Agenda

    Priorities for the Greens/EFA group this week include a common EU corporate tax base, new proposals for dealing with shadow banking and our iniative for the EP to participate in a worldwide reading of Liu Xiaobo's writings.