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    Press release |

    Employment and migrants rights

    The European Parliament today voted on EU legislation on seasonal workers. The Greens welcomed the outcome, which sets out new EU provisions on the rights of seasonal workers from non-EU countries. Commenting after the vote, Green migration and employment policy spokesperson Jean Lambert said: &quo...
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    Video |

    Local and regional consequences of the development of smart grids

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    Press release |

    Minority rights

    The European Parliament today voted in favour of a report calling for an EU roadmap against homophobia and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Commenting after the vote, EP rapporteur/draftsperson and Green civil liberties and LGBT spokesperson Ulrike Lunacek stated: &quo...
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    Video |

    Roadmap against homophobia and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity

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    Video |

    29th annual report on monitoring the application of EU law

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    News |

    Strasbourg Flash

    Greens/EFA priorities for the Strasbourg Plenary include tackling homophobia, enforcing EU law, smart grids, clamping down on insider trading, winding up failing banks, trade dumping, EU climate and energy policy to 2030, air passenger rights and compensation, basic rights for seasonal workers, Ukrainian crisis and the EU's role, refugee …
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    News |

    Bank rescue "made easy"

    Right now the European Parliament and the Council are negotiating how a future bank collapse should be handled. The resulting Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM is supposed to be smooth machine for the rapid clean-up of collapsing banks "over the weekend". Instead, after pressure from German...
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    Event |

    Greening regional policy

    From 2014 on, EU regional policy will be funded under a new set of rules. The Greens/EFA group made a difference in the negotiations on the Cohesion Policy (legislative) package for 2014-2020, the new rules contain improvements for greener and socially more just cohesion policy.
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    Press release |

    Banking sector reform

    The European Commission today presented proposals on structural reform of the EU's banking sector. The Greens expressed regret that this crucial and long-awaited legislation will fall short of providing for a full separation of retail and investment banking activities. Commenting on the proposals, G...
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    Publication |

    EU systemic banks capture huge amount of implicit subsidies

    According to the study, the best estimate of subsidies amounts to 233.9 billion euro. The study shows that that without these implicit subsidies the large banking institutions in the EU would be making substantial losses. Furthermore, it compares the orders of magnitude of implicit subsidies with the upcoming capital charges and levies …