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    Press release |

    EU budget 2013

    The European Parliament today adopted its position on the 2013 EU budget. The Greens welcomed the outcome, which opposes proposals by EU governments in Council to arbitrarily cut the draft budget proposed by the European Commission. Commenting after the vote, Green budgetary spokesperson Helga Trüp...
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    Video |

    General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2013

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    News |

    Single seat for the European Parliament

    The long-running question of the European Parliament's multi-seat operation is again brought into focus this week, as the EP packs two Strasbourg plenary sessions into one week. The Greens/EFA group backed this innovative solution to making the EP's operating method less inefficient and wasteful ope...
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    News |

    Strasbourg Flash

    Greens/EFA priorities for the Strasbourg Plenary include the EU budget 2013, the future financing 2014-2020, the rules on data retention, the issue of the single seat of the European Parliament, the EU economic governance, the decision on the Sakharov Prize winner...
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    Press release |

    EU summit

    Commenting on the outcome of today's EU summit, Greens/EFA co-president Dany Cohn-Bendit and Rebecca Harms said: "Yet again, EU leaders have used a summit to buy themselves more time, which means the ECB will be forced once more into the breach to support under-pressure Eurozone sovereigns. &q...
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    Event |

    Greens/EFA Study Days

    Greens/EFA hold a three-day internal meeting to exchange views and debate on strategies.
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    News |

    Brussels agenda

    Greens/EFA priorities for the week include the Commission proposal on biofuels and indirect land use change, the EU Summit on the EU economic and banking union. Greens/EFA will also hold their study days in Ostend during the weekl
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    Press release |

    Nobel Peace Prize

    Commenting on the award of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union, Greens/EFA co-president Rebecca Harms said: "The decision of the Nobel committee is both surprising and brave. The EU, while imperfect and incomplete, is still a unique project for peace and unity. The award is also a ...
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    Press release |

    EU budget - future and own resources

    The EP's budget committee today adopted its interim report on the EU's multiannual financial framework for 2014-20, which prepares the way for the EU budget process proper. The Greens welcomed the vote, with Green budgetary spokesperson Helga Trüpel stating: "MEPs have today set out their stal...
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    News |

    Bail out countries hit by water privateers

    The EU is supposed to take a neutral position on the issue of water privatisation, but the European Commission seems to have forgotten this.  As part of the Troika, it has been pushing for the large scale privatisation of public services in Greece and Portugal, including water utilities, as p...