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    European Fathers' Congress

    The Green group in the European Parliament in cooperation with father interest groups from all over Europe will host the first ever European Fathers´ Congress. At the core of the meeting will be the call for a European minimum standard for paternity leave.
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    Green Round-up

    For the Greens, the main highlights of the week were the debates and votes on the economic governance pack legislation, on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy, on spent fuel and radiactive waste and on strenghtening the consumer rights. Two committee votes - on implementation of EU legislation and on road safety in Europe - were …
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    EU summit

    Commenting on the outcome of today's EU summit, Greens/EFA co-president Rebecca Harms said: "The future of the Euro hangs in the balance but EU leaders are continuing to muddle through and take the path of least resistance. At every step of the Eurozone crisis, EU leaders have acted too late an...
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    Economic governance

    The European Parliament today voted to set out its position on the EU's '6 pack' of economic governance legislation (1), with negotiations between the European Parliament and Council still ongoing. While the Greens agree with the urgent need to introduce tougher economic governance and reform the st...
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    Press release |

    Eurozone crisis/Greece

    European finance ministers have delayed approval of a new tranche of loans for Greece, insisting that the country pass a new package of austerity measures first. The Greens have hit out at the persistent reliance on austerity and the failure to ensure private creditors take a bigger and compulsory p...
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    News |

    e-fa News Round-Up May/June 2011

    Key issues over the past few weeks included: E-coli outbreak S4C future raised with European Commission EU calls for a new era of social justice Scots political bloggers EFA Group visit to Limburg Food security and price volatility Independence for South Sudan Plight of the Tuareg in the Libyan Con...
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    Press release |

    Pregnant Workers Directive

    The ConDem UK Government is reported to be amongst a number of EU states trying to block new EU legislation to improve maternity leave. On Friday (17 June) EU ministers meeting in Brussels are set to discuss the Pregnant Workers Directive. The new law was approved by the European Parliament last Oc...
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    Plenary Round-up

    The main issues were the multiannual financial framework, the Eurovignette, the application of Schengen acquis in Bulgaria and Romania, EU-Canada trade relations, the European Arrest Warrant, the nuclear stress tests, the forthcoming EU-Russia Summit and the external dimension of social policy.
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    Appeal "Let's change Europe"

    A group of MEPs today launched the cross-party appeal "Let's change Europe" criticising current economic and social policies in the EU and calling for a change of course. It's the economic governance package, in particular, that's in the line of fire. It is described as an unprecedented ch...
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    Credit rating agencies

    The European Parliament today adopted a report on credit rating agencies. The Greens welcomed the report as an important step to addressing the damaging dominance and conflict of interests of the three big rating agencies, with a review of EU legislation on ratings agencies foreseen for later this y...