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    Press release |

    Euro rescue fund

    EU finance ministers, meeting at today's informal finance council inCopenhagen, agreed changes to the Euro rescue funds ESM and EFSF. Commenting on the decision, Greens/EFA co-presidents Rebecca Harms and Dany Cohn-Bendit said: "Today's decision is, as ever, too little and too late. The tweaks ...
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    Video |

    Dakar 2012

    With 5 main themes of Democracy, the Global Greens, the Green Economy, Biodiversity and Climate Change, Greens from every corner of the world shared their experiences and learned from each others' expertise at the first World Congress to be held in Africa.
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    News |

    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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    Press release |

    EU financial rules (derivatives)

    The European Parliament today adopted new EU legislation on over-the-counter derivative products, based on a legislative agreement reached in February. The Greens welcome the creation of a regulatory framework for these opaque and risky products but regretted the failure to provide for proper EU ove...
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    Video |

    Financial transaction tax

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    Video |

    Shadow banking

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    News |

    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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    Financial transaction tax and EU budget own resources

    EU budget commissioner Lewandowski today outlined proposals in the context of the forthcoming Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), including plans to use part of the revenue from an EU-wide financial transaction tax (FTT) to fund the EU budget. The Commission was presenting its proposals at a high...
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    Posted workers

    The European Commission today presented a legislative proposal aimed at overcoming some of the problems with existing EU rules on posted workers by providing for better enforcement. The Greens gave a mixed response to the proposal but underlined that it does not close some of the major loopholes in ...
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    Solvency II / Omnibus II

    The Lisbon treaty, the new European supervisory authorities and the experiences of the financial crisis have all required changes to be made to the European insurance industry's legislative framework (Solvency II). The so-called Omnibus II directive was drafted to implement those adjustments. This f...