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    Human Rights in North Korea

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    Financial Supervision

    Commenting on the state of negotiations and today's plenary vote on the Financial Supervision Package, Green MEP and Rapporteur for the European Securities and Markets Authority reportSven Giegold (Germany) said:"After two months of tenacious negotiations with Council, the European Parliament today ...
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    Timber Trade

    The European Parliament today formally adopted a compromise negotiated between the Environment Committee, Spanish Presidency and the Commission on the regulation of timber. Commenting on the result, Green MEP Satu Hassi (Finland), who replaced Caroline Lucas as the Parliament's Rapporteur on th...
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    Bankers' Bonuses

    The European parliament today voted overwhelmingly in favour of stronger rules governing bankers' bonuses. Commenting on the vote, Green MEP Sven Giegold, economic and financial spokesman for the Greens / EFA group in the European Parliament, said: "Thanks to the pressure from the European parliame...
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    Strasbourg Flash

    Next week's agenda has important issues for the Greens. The SWIFT agreement on the transfer of passenger data will be voted on as will the improved agreement on the External Action Service. There will be reports on financial supervision, including from Green MEP Sven Giegold. Green MEPs will present a study on the environmental risks of G…
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    The New Political Role of Internet and Mobile Phone

    Modern information networks turn more and more into essential tools for political mobilisation. The discredited presidential elections in Iran have initiated a popular protest-movement, the so-called "Green movement" which gained much of its momentum through the new technologies offered via internet and mobile phone: sms, You Tube, twitte…
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    G20

    Commenting on the outcome of the G20 summit in Toronto, Rebecca Harms and Dany Cohn-Bendit, co-chairs of the Greens / EFA group in the European Parliament said:"As expected, there has been no progress at the G20 Summit in Toronto. The lessons from the financial crisis that erupted almost two year...
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    Bank Data Agreement

    German Green MEP and member of the Civil Liberties Committee, Jan Philipp Albrecht, comments on the ongoing negotiations between Council, Commission and Parliament over the transfer of bank data to US authorities ("SWIFT agreement"):"Now the cat is out of the bag: The grand coalition of Conservative...
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    Kosovo-Report

    Commenting on the vote today in the Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET) on the Kosovo report, Ulrike Lunacek, Foreign Affairs Spokesperson of the Greens/EFA in the European Parliament and Kosovo-Rapporteur, said:"With a clear majority for my Kosovo-report, the Foreign Affairs Committee has given an imp...
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    European External Action Service

    Commenting on the outcome of yesterday's inter-institutional negotiations on the European External Action Service in Madrid, Franziska Brantner, foreign affairs spokesperson of the Greens/EFA Group, said: "The political agreement reached yesterday is a step in the right direction compared to th...