icon

ADVANCED SEARCH

Press Releases, Opinions, Publications, Events and Videos

Filter
  • Agriculture and Fisheries
  • Climate
  • Culture
  • Transparency and Democracy
  • Economy
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • European Union
  • International
  • Mobility
  • Rights and freedoms
  • Trade
  • Society
    • array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481902146_80ac2128b05c448939c53d9333c6dcc4.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481902146) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "80ac2128b05c448939c53d9333c6dcc4.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(50) "http://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/3901/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(49) "http://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/3901/list" ["photo"]=> string(50) "http://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/3901/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(53) "http://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/3901/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Press release |

    Nuclear waste

    The Hungarian authorities are planning to transport damaged nuclear fuel to a Russian reprocessing site, via Ukraine, with no plan for any return (1). The Greens have called on the European Commission to intervene to prevent this. Commenting on the situation, Greens/EFA co-president Rebecca Harms sa...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481902155_4e237a7b8c37302b2a29490a7129c21f.png" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481902155) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "4e237a7b8c37302b2a29490a7129c21f.png" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(50) "http://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/3928/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(49) "http://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/3928/list" ["photo"]=> string(50) "http://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/3928/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(53) "http://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/3928/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Press release |

    EU-US trade agreement (TTIP)

    A few hours after the arrest of hundreds of environmental campaigners in Brussels yesterday during a protest against the free trade agreement with the USA (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) and with public resistance continuing to grow, the EU Member States decided the same day to refu...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481902159_17679eabf47b3452f2a80651516d8438.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481902159) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "17679eabf47b3452f2a80651516d8438.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3932/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3932/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3932/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3932/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Press release |

    ECJ ruling

    The European Court of Justice today ruled that search engine operators such as Google are responsible for the personal data they process and that affected individuals are entitled to request erasure of their details from the search index. Commenting on this ruling, Jan Philipp Albrecht, justice...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481902161_832d194a402f68ccc76e664bd1481c35.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481902161) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "832d194a402f68ccc76e664bd1481c35.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3938/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3938/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3938/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3938/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    News |

    LobbyCloud

    Lobbycloud, a new website aimed at enhancing transparency of lobbying activities in the European Parliament, was presented today at the re:publica 14 internet conference in Berlin by its developer OpenDataCity. This new tool will allow users to email lobbying documents for publication or upload th...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481902176_77b2245c1a8af9de0a6b1ee719a5e787.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481902176) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "77b2245c1a8af9de0a6b1ee719a5e787.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3955/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3955/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3955/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3955/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    News |

    Greens/EFA Round-up

    Greens/EFA priorities for the Strasbourg plenary included politicisation of EP administration posts and Martin Schulz; monster trucks, pollution and safety; EU airport noise rules; transparency and the lobby register; banking resolution and taxpayers' exposure; regulating investment markets and products; plastic bags; saving migrants' liv…
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481902212_875846d8fafa2430c434d7eaef53a67d.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481902212) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "875846d8fafa2430c434d7eaef53a67d.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(50) "http://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/3966/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(49) "http://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/3966/list" ["photo"]=> string(50) "http://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/3966/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(53) "http://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/3966/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    News |

    Food and feed law:

    There is currently an extensive set of European rules to prevent, eliminate or reduce risk to human, animal or plants health along the food chain. To ensure that these rules are enforced by the Member States in a harmonised manner, a legislative framework for the organisation of official controls wa...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481902215_14dda3a42a0d81f57a3eb0400cc78081.png" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481902215) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "14dda3a42a0d81f57a3eb0400cc78081.png" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(50) "http://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/3971/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(49) "http://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/3971/list" ["photo"]=> string(50) "http://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/3971/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(53) "http://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/3971/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    News |

    Grand majority of Parliament votes in favor of a regulation on investor-state lawsuits

    Investor-state dispute settlement ( ISDS ) has come into the focus of critics since the start of negotiations on a free trade agreement with the US (TTIP). ISDS means that foreign investors can sue the states hosting their investments in front of international courts when they see their rights and p...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(35) "files/assets/imgs/list/efa_logo.jpg" ["title"]=> string(8) "EFA logo" ["copyright"]=> string(8) "EFA logo" ["updated_at"]=> int(1481902231) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "ad3022bb2f519724f121d45982c981e6.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/4000/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(50) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/4000/list" ["photo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/4000/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(54) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/4000/portrait" } ["alt"]=> string(8) "EFA logo" }
    EFA logo
    EFA logo
    Press release |

    Electoral Fraud in Turkey

    Basque MEP Inaki Irazabalbeitia held a press conference today in the European Parliament to raise concerns of alleged electoral fraud in the recent municipal elections in Turkey. He was joined for the press conference by Eyyup Doru of the Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party or BDP. Mr Irazabalbeitia ...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481902232_3546383b616090896af9150fe6d978d3.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481902232) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "3546383b616090896af9150fe6d978d3.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/4002/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/4002/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/4002/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/4002/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Press release |

    ECJ judgment

    Commenting on the judgment of the European Court of Justice in the case brought against the EU Data Retention Directive, Jan Philipp Albrecht, justice and home affairs spokesperson for the Greens/EFA group, stated: "The blanket, unjustified collection and retention of telecommunications data i...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481902232_fca05ffefee5def9c6da297faf35a209.gif" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481902232) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "fca05ffefee5def9c6da297faf35a209.gif" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/4004/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/4004/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/4004/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/4004/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Press release |

    Hungary

    Commenting on the result of the elections in Hungary, Rebecca Harms, President of the Greens/EFA group in the European parliament today said:"With 44% of the votes Viktor Orbán and his FIDESZ party could probably secure a two-thirds majority in the Hungarian Parliament. The unfair electoral sy...