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    Press release |

    EU food aid scheme

    The European Parliament today approved a compromise solution on a scheme under the CAP, which provides food aid to the most vulnerable persons in the EU. The compromise follows the lines of a Green proposal made last year and would see the scheme continued until 2013 (around €500 million per year)...
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    Tories call for EU control of recreational fishing

    SNP President Ian Hudghton MEP has today (Wednesday) reacted angrily to Tory calls in the European Parliament for recreational fishing to be included as part of the reformed Common Fisheries Policy. In a parliamentary resolution signed by Scottish MEP Struan Stevenson, the Tories state that recreati...
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    EU 'power-grab' harming Scotland's fishing communities

    SNP MEP and Party President Ian Hudghton has accused the European Commission of attempting a 'power-grab' by retaining centralised control over fisheries policy in Brussels. The SNP MEP warned that the EU Commission is using a restrictive interpretation of the EU's Lisbon Treaty as justification for...
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    Bluetongue vaccination freedom for farmers

    Alyn Smith MEP, member of the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee, has welcomed today's decision by the European Parliament to allow vaccination against the Bluetongue virus to take place on farms anywhere in the EU, in contrast to the previous system of only vaccinating within a specific re...
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    Video |

    one year after 3/11

    View the full programme here...
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    Strasbourg Flash

    Greens/EFA priorities for the next weeks Strasbourg Plenary include Eurobonds and the response to the crisis, the controversial EU-Morocco trade protocol, elections in Russia, reform of the milk and dairy sector, homelessness stratgy in the EU...
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    GMO Campaign Blog

    EU member states are currently discussing (1) a set of rules that concern how applications for the authorisation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are assessed. The rules themselves are quite technical but the implications could be far-reaching for future GMO assessments in Europe. The Europ...
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    Event |

    Patents on plants and animals

    The hearing will deal with patents on conventional breeding of plants and animals and their consequences for the agricultural sector and the food production. How to interpret the EU Biotech Patents Directive 98/44/EC ? Is there a need to change the law? The point of view of stakeholders.
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    Gates Foundation

    Bill Gates addressed the Development committee of the European Parliament last week and received a warm welcome from the MEPs present. The questions that followed his address were light and easy with one exception: Green MEP Catherine Grèze challenged Mr. Gates on the funding of his foundation, a...
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    Press release |

    EU food aid scheme

    The European Parliament agriculture committee today approved a compromise solution on a scheme under the CAP, which provides food aid to the most vulnerable persons in the EU. The compromise follows the lines of a Green proposal made last year and would see the scheme continued until 2013 (arou...