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    Key Transparency Challenges in the European Union

    The objective of this statement is to highlight key transparency challenges across Europe in order to provide a common basis for future campaigning to improve respect for the right of access to information, to increase citizen participation, and to ensure democratic accountability at both EU and national level.
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    Lolita Chávez: defending human rights in Guatemala

    It is high time that the European Parliament and the European Union step up their efforts in support of environmental rights defenders around the world, who are on the front line of human rights violence and corporate abuse and have little, if any, support from their national authorities.
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    What's coming up next week in Parliament

    A look ahead to next week's session in the European Parliament in Strasbourg and the Greens/EFA priority issues on the agenda
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    Stateless nations and media

    Political and social movements of stateless nations face a double communication challenge in order to spread their vision and aims to society. The aim of this conference is to analyse the reality of both media and the communication agenda in several European stateless nations from different angles.
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    Right to Know Day: Public Event

    To mark International Right to Know Day, the European Parliament Intergroup on Integrity, Transparency and Organised Crime is bringing together NGOs and journalists from across Europe to identify the main challenges in accessing information across Europe. We need more transparency in Europe (both from EU and the Member States) so that d…
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    Event |

    New GMOs / Monsanto Papers

    Follow our press event live with EU and US guest speakers and MEPs Michèle Rivasi and Bart Staes
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    The EU Commission should mediate between Spanish and Catalan authorities

    The Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament has called on the European Commission to facilitate dialogue between the Spanish and Catalan authorities to help resolve the political situation around the proposed referendum on Catalan independence.
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    Caterpillar boycotted the hearing of Committee of Inquiry into Money Laundering, Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion

    Caterpillar has to lose its entrance passes to the European Parliament for their refusal to answer questions on their tax avoidance to the public in today’s Parliamentary hearing. Shying away from the European Parliament’s public hearing on Caterpillar’s efforts in tax dumping will not keep such practises under wraps.
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    Stop the rogue EU trade talks with Morocco over Western Sahara

    By Florent Marcellesi, Bodil Valero, Barbara Lochbihler, Pascal Durand, Bart Staes and Margrete Auken, Members of the European Parliment from the Green/EFA Group
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    MEPs call for dialogue in Catalan situation

    Nearly 50 MEPs from across the political spectrum have today signed a letter to Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy 'to express our deep concern regarding the situation in Catalonia, which has reached a critical point.' The MEPs are critical of the 'repressive actions' of the Spa...