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    Press release |

    State of the Union

    Commenting on today's State of the Union address from President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, Greens/EFA co-president Rebecca Harms said: "The European Union, with all its achievements and its shortcomings, is still the best answer to nationalism. We are better able to defe...
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    News |

    Creating Labour Market Conditions Favourable for Work-Life Balance

    The European Parliament voted today to back a report on Creating Labour Market Conditions Favourable for Work-Life Balance. Commenting on the report, and the forthcoming Commission proposals, Greens/EFA MEP Tatjana Ždanoka said: "Achieving a good balance between our private lives and wor...
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    Event |

    Digitising Europe’s Industry

    FOLLOW THE EVENT LIVE REGISTRATION CLOSED 14h00 Registration and entry into European Parliament 14h30 Welcome and introductory remarks Reinhard Bütikofer, MEP (Greens/EFA) 14h40 Keynote speech Commissioner Oettinger, Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society 15h00  Q&A 15h20 Digitisin...
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    Video |

    The circular economy

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    News |

    Luxleaks committee delivers final verdict

    In the same week as Finance Ministers agreed a weak package of reforms on tax avoidance, the European Parliament Special Committee TAXE has published a harsh assessment of Member States' willingness to adopt tax reforms. The committee, created in February 2015 to investigate the Luxleaks scandal, also put forward a series of recommendati…
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    Press release |

    EU investment plan

    The European Commission today presented a review of the EU investment plan (EFSI), which was presented in January 2015. Reacting to the review and the progress on the plan, Greens/EFA co-president Philippe Lamberts stated: "The 'Juncker Plan' was introduced with much fanfare but this review onl...
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    Video |

    Tapping into the job creation potential of the green economy

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    News |

    Has the G7 learned its lesson?

    The G7 club of industrialised nations met this week in Japan against a backdrop of economic gloom, geopolitical tension and rising concerns on climate change. Despite being viewed by many as remote and undemocratic, the G7 meetings are still seen as politically important, which explains the masses...
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    News |

    The role of the United States as a tax haven

    On the same week of the publication of the Panama Papers’ database by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, providing a useful resource to track shell companies often created with the objective to evade taxes or launder dirty money, the Greens launch a new report on why the United States are becoming the biggest tax h…
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    Publication |

    China’s market economy status

    Tabled by Reinhard Bütikofer, Yannick Jadot, Ska Keller, Philippe Lamberts, Claude Turmes, Bas Eickhout on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group The European Parliament, –  having regard to the EU’s anti-dumping legislation (Council Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 of 30 November 2009 on prote...