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    Rare Earths

    Commenting on China’s announced cuts in its export quotas for rare earths for the first half year of 2012, Reinhard Bütikofer, spokesperson on industrial affairs for the Greens/EFA Group and Rapporteur on raw materials for the European Parliament, said: “China continues to revise its export quo...
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    Energy Efficiency Directive

    The Environment Committee of the European Parliament voted today on its opinion on the Energy Efficiency Directive. A huge majority of the Environment Committee called upon the European Commission to withhold a significant amount of CO2 allowances before the start of the third trading phase of ETS a...
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    The Green New Deal

    The Green New Deal is more than just another “eco-friendly” policy - it’s a plan for a rethink of priorities in addressing the way we live and work. Therefore the Green New Deal proposes a comprehensive, economic, social and environmental transformation, from infrastructure and sustainable industrial policies to investment in peoples’ wel…
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    Greens/EFA Round-up

    Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary week in Strasbourg included the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement, ITER nuclear fusion and EU funds, single EU work permit, criminal proceedings and the right to information, the Euro crisis, banning environment-damaging phosphates and many others
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    Single European work permit

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    EU single permit

    The new EU single work and residence permit is today set to be adopted by the European Parliament (1). The Greens believe the single permit is an important step forward but regret that it does not grant greater rights to those seeking to live and work in the EU. Commenting on the permit, Green Euro-...
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    Strasbourg Flash

    Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary week in Strasbourg include the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement, ITER nuclear fusion and EU funds, single EU work permit, criminal proceedings and the right to information, the Euro crisis, banning environment-damaging phosphates and many others
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    EU summit

    Commenting on the outcome of the EU summit on economic governance and the Euro crisis, Greens/EFA co-presidents Rebecca Harms and Dany Cohn-Bendit said: “This stopgap outcome has prevented summit failure but the proposed intergovernmental treaty raises as many new questions as it answers. In term...
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    Presidency of the European Union

    On Wednesday 7 December, a delegation of the Greens/EFA Group went to Copenhagen and met the incoming Danish Presidency of the European Union to discuss its priorities
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    EU summit

    This week's EU summit, the latest in a seemingly never-ending cycle of 'crisis summits', is being billed by many as the last chance saloon for the Euro. If that is the case, the portents are not good, with Monday's Merkozy meeting having served up another package of half-measures as the basis for ag...