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    The flawed EU budget plan (2014-20) and the Greens/EFA alternative

    The Greens/EFA group is opposed to the final deal on the EU Multiannual Financial Framework, as it fails to deliver on any of the red lines identified by the European Parliament prior to the negotiations.
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    Strasbourg Flash

    Greens/EFA priorities for the Strasbourg Plenary include - Export credit agencies, EU budget 2014-2020, Hungary, Reforming the EU's anti-fraud body, Reforming the structure of the banking sector, Regulating investment funds (UCITS), Implementing the Financial Transaction Tax, Emissions Trading System: stopping the rot, US and UK governmen…
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    Press release |

    EU summit

    Commenting on the result of the European Summit Dany Cohn-Bendit, Co-President of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament said: "Once again, petty narrow national interests dominated this summit. That the UK will get an even higher rebate is unacceptable. This ongoing bargaining betwee...
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    MFF

    Why we voted against the MFF and what a Greens/EFA EU Budget would look like. After months of negotiations the European Parliament has agreed to the European Council’s demand to slash the new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). The general lines for the European Union’s annual budgets from 2...
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    Citizens first!

    This one-day conference will look at the first year of the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) and discuss how citizens and organisations could use this instrument more effectively as well as options of further development of citizen participation in Europe. The focus will be on the strengthening of the ECI as tool of participative democr…
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    Press release |

    Multiannual Financial Framework

    The Irish Presidency of the EU Council, the European parliament and the European Commission today agreed on a compromise on the Multiannual Financial Framework for 2014-2020. The Greens/EFA group are critical of the fact that the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, accepted the weak...
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    Press release |

    Resolution of failing banks

    After several months of discussions, the Council agreed this morning on its general approach on the Banking Recovery and Resolution Directive, opening the way to negotiations with the European parliament, which had adopted its own position in May. The objective is to reach a final agreement by the e...
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    Video |

    Mondragón - the cooperative movement in the Basque Country

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    News |

    Give Youth a Chance!

    This week's European Council (27-28 June 2013) will focus amongst other issues on initiatives to enhance youth employment. Member States are to discuss the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), a new funding instrument with a budget of €6 billion, within the European Social Fund to support regions, w...
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    Press release |

    Multiannual Financial Framework

    The Greens/EFA group in the European parliament today decided to reject the Council's proposal for a Multiannual Financial Framework for 2014 - 2020, a proposal which had been accepted by the Parliament's negotiation leader Alain Lamassoure in a personal capacity. The Greens/EFA group said that the ...