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    Schengen controversy

    The European Parliament’s conference of presidents today decided to block negotiations with Council on a number of legislative files in the justice and home affairs area and the EU budget for 2013 (2). The decision comes in response to last week's decision by home affairs ministers to exclude the ...
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    Baby food rules

    The European Parliament today voted on EU rules on food for young children and infants and food for special medical purposes. The Greens gave a mixed response to the vote, welcoming improvements on labelling but regretting the failure to back a Green proposal to ensure the most toxic pesticides cann...
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    MEP launches 'EU - tube'

    A leading Scottish politician is on a mission to strip away the mysteries of Europe – through his own ‘EU-tube’ television channel. MEP Alyn Smith will produce, present and set up a series of online videos. Viewers will have the chance to contact him directly and ask any question they like abo...
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    Legal basis of the Schengen evaluation mechanism

    With EU governments seeking to dismantle the EU's Schengen border-free, and trying to exclude the European Parliament from the decision-making, Greens/EFA co-president Rebecca Harms slams the EU's Danish presidency for its role in the process
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    Press release |

    Schengen and border controls

    The European Parliament’s civil liberties committee this evening voted on two key legislative files related to the EU’s Schengen border-free system, one related to the reintroduction of border controls (Weber report) and one on the evaluation of Schengen (Coehlo report). The votes come after las...
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    Strasbourg Flash

    Greens/EFA priorities for next week's Strasbourg Plenary include border controls and preserving Schengen, preferential trade for poor countries, Eurozone economic governance, regulating the global arms trade, illegal Israeli settlements, own resources and the EU budget, safer baby food through EU rules, fixing EU fisheries, Energy saving …
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    Video |

    50 reasons to reject ACTA

    With the European Parliament set to decide on the fate of the controversial ACTA anti-counterfeiting agreement, Green MEPs set out the reasons why they believe the parliament should vote to withhold its consent and reject the agreement. With your help we have put together 50 reasons to reject ACTA. See the video and join the anti-ACTA…
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    Border controls and Schengen

    EU home affairs ministers today decided their position on two key legislative proposals concerning the EU's border-free Schengen system. The Greens hit out at the decisions, which would undermine the essence of Schengen by making the reimposition of border controls and evaluation of Schengen a natio...
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    Publication |

    Democratic follow-up in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    The European Parliament, –   having regard to the Declaration by the High Representative, Catherine Ashton, on behalf of the European Union, on the electoral process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo of 9 December 2011 (A 507/1/11 REV 1), –   having regard to ...
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    EU appeal for Kurdish activist Leyla Zana

    MEPs, including some from the European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament, have called on the EU to intervene in the case of Kurdish activist Leyla Zana.Ms Zana, a human rights activist and member of the Turkish parliament, was sentenced to ten years imprisonment last week on a charge of...