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    Strasbourg Flash

    Next week's agenda has important issues for the Greens. The SWIFT agreement on the transfer of passenger data will be voted on as will the improved agreement on the External Action Service. There will be reports on financial supervision, including from Green MEP Sven Giegold. Green MEPs will present a study on the environmental risks of G…
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    G20

    Commenting on the outcome of the G20 summit in Toronto, Rebecca Harms and Dany Cohn-Bendit, co-chairs of the Greens / EFA group in the European Parliament said:"As expected, there has been no progress at the G20 Summit in Toronto. The lessons from the financial crisis that erupted almost two year...
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    Bank Data Agreement

    German Green MEP and member of the Civil Liberties Committee, Jan Philipp Albrecht, comments on the ongoing negotiations between Council, Commission and Parliament over the transfer of bank data to US authorities ("SWIFT agreement"):"Now the cat is out of the bag: The grand coalition of Conservative...
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    Carbon and energy tax

    The European Commission has begun considering a proposal to revise the energy taxation directive, including a carbon tax component. Green MEPs support the revision but call for the proposal to set the rate at the right level and limit exemptions.
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    Offshore oil drilling

    The Greens/EFA group has highlighted the lack of EU regulation on offshore oil drilling, notably on safety and liability. In addition to calling for stronger and more coherent EU rules, the Greens have called for a moratorium on offshore drilling - at least until stronger rules are in place.
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    Electrical and electronic waste

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    Call for civil society financial lobbying

    For the first time, 22 MEPs in charge of regulating banks and financial markets have launched a multi-party call criticizing the asymmetry in the representation of interests. This call was initiated by Green MEP Pascal Canfin.
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    Gender Equality and the Crisis

    The European Parliament today adopted a report on the gender aspects of the financial and economic crisis. Raül Romeva, vice-president of the Greens/EFA group and author of the report, commented after the vote: " This is an important day for many millions of women in Europe because for the fir...
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    European Council

    While the heads of state had lengthy debates about possible stress-tests for banks, they failed the stress-test themselves: in spite of Merkel and Sarkozy's Berlin statements, a strategy for a Common European Economic Policy is yet to be found. EU heads of state still don't dare to commit to real economic governance and refuse to give mor…
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    Working time for lorry drivers

    The European Parliament in Strasbourg rejected a Commission proposal to change a directive on the working time of lorry drivers (1). The proposal aimed at excluding self employed drivers from the directive. Commenting on the result of the vote Green MEP Emilie Turunen, Member of the Social Affairs C...