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    Jill Evans MEP welcomes vote on fully paid maternity and paternity leave

    Plaid President, Jill Evans MEP, welcomed today's vote in the European Parliament on the health and safety of pregnant workers. MEPs voted for a minimum of 20 weeks maternity leave on full pay for women and two weeks paternity leave on full pay for men.Following the vote, Jill Evans MEP said:"B...
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    Role of minimum income

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    Statement on EP vote to raise EU standards on minimum maternity and paternity leave

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    Poverty and income

    The European Parliament is today debating tackling poverty in the context of the European and international years focusing on poverty eradication. MEPs are also set to adopt a non-legislative report (1), which includes a call for an EU framework directive on minimum income, a long-standing Greens/EF...
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    Statement on EP vote to raise EU standards on minimum maternity and paternity leave

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    Strasbourg Flash

    A busy plenary week includes legislative votes on maternity leave, the EU budget, and the external action service. MEPs will also discuss the Hungarian sludge disaster, the ACTA agreement and the Roma scandal in France, while the Sakharov Prize will also be decided.
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    Financial transaction tax

    The European Commission today presented a communication on the Taxation of the Financial Sector. The communication acknowledges the possibility of an EU-level transaction tax but the Greens regret that it fails to outline any concrete proposal to this end. Commenting on the communication, German Gre...
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    Budget reform and cohesion funds

    The European Parliament today adopted two resolutions regarding the reform of cohesion policy beyond 2014. With this vote, the Parliament today presented its first input to the debate on the future architecture of the multiannual programmes, just before the publication of the fifth cohesion report b...
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    EU financal transaction tax

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    Brussels Agenda

    A ban on offshore drilling and biodiversity top the agenda for the parliament's plenary, while the Commission is expected to present a communication on a financial transaction tax. There are also a number of Greens/EFA events.