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    Call for civil society financial lobbying

    For the first time, 22 MEPs in charge of regulating banks and financial markets have launched a multi-party call criticizing the asymmetry in the representation of interests. This call was initiated by Green MEP Pascal Canfin.
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    Export of torture

    Onthe occasion of the resolution on the export of torture instruments today in the European Parliament, Barbara Lochbihler, Green/EFA coordinator for the Human Rights Subcommittee,Declares: "We welcome that the European Parliament, aroused by an NGO report, now calls for concrete measures to implem...
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    Protecting Human Rights Defenders

    The European Parliament adopted today the report of Green MEP Heidi Hautala, Chair of the Subcommittee on Human rights, on Human Rights Defenders with near unanimity. High Representative, Ms Catherine Ashton, who took part in the hearing, welcomed the recommendations of the report. She underlined it...
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    Civil Liberties in Russia

    The European Parliament today voted for a resolution on the outcome of the 31 May - 1 June Russia - EU summit in Rostov. Explaining the vote, Green MEP Werner Schulz, Vice-Chairman of the EU-Russia Delegation of the European Parliament, said:"The debates and discussions about the Summit in Rostov du...
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    Iran-Sanctions

    In addition to the sanctions adopted last week by the UN against Iran, European leaders have today agreed on further sanctions. Explaining the decision, Green MEP Barbara Lochbihler, chair of the European Parliament delegation for relations with Iran, said: "The sanctions adopted today by European l...
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    Democratic Republic of Congo

    On the eve of celebrations of the Democratic Republic of Congo's fiftieth anniversary of independence, the European Parliament has adopted unanimously an emergency resolution condemning in the strongest terms the murder of Floribert Chebeya Bahizire, a well respected Congolese human rights defender ...
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    Food information

    The European Parliament today adopted a regulation on food information for consumers. Commenting on the vote, Green MEP Carl Schlyter, Vice-President of the Environment committee said: "The European Parliament today has taken a step forward in the direction of better consumer information, but misse...
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    Illegal logging

    Today the EP negotiators have agreed to a compromise in the second reading with the Council on the illegal timber regulation. Upon taking up her mandate in the UK Parliament, Caroline Lucas was succeeded by Satu Hassi as the rapporteur for the regulation. Satu Hassi commented on the result: "I ...
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    Development Policy

    The European parliament today adopted a report assessing the progress made in reaching the UN Millennium Development Goals (1). Commenting on the vote, Green MEPJudith Sargentini, Member of the Development Committee,said:"Four months before the mid-term review of the achievement of the Millennium De...
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    SWIFT Agreement

    Commenting on the presentation of the new SWIFT agreement by EU home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmström, Greens/EFA expert on home affairs in the European Parliament, Jan Philipp Albrecht, comments:"The European Commission risks another rejection in the European Parliament with its proposal for...