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    At the intersection of smuggling and trafficking

    In Europe and worldwide, people disappear on a daily basis. Some end up in situations of forced labour, including in the sex industry. Some are killed for organ trafficking. This conference will bring together renowned experts, both from European institutions and international civil society, to discuss this issue
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    Brussels Agenda

    Greens/EFA priorities for the week include Europe's banking sector, F-gases' climate damage, emissions trading, pollution from shipping, airline emissions, data protection and Europol. Greens/EFA events will deal with human trafficking and smuggling, seed diversity, food security and the role of industry, greening regional policy, LGBT ri…
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    Turkey - Erdoğan visit

    The Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan, currently on a state visit to Brussels, today met with a delegation of the European Parliament. Greens/EFA MEP Hélène Flautre, Chair of the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, commented after the meeting: "Prime Minister E...
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    Brussels Agenda

    Greens/EFA priorities for the week include EU climate and energy policy to 2030, shale gas, fracking and EU rules, data protection and EU-US cooperation, EU enlargement and the Balkans, tobacco rules, meat origin and clear labels, waste shipments and EU rules; genetic resources and benefit sharing, money laundering, terrorism funding an…
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    Press release |

    Ukraine crackdown

    Commenting on the passage of a package of laws by the Ukrainian parliament yesterday, which seriously restricts the freedom of assembly and the activities of non-governmental organisations, Greens/EFA co-president Rebecca Harms stated: "These laws amount to an anti-democratic putsch, which scup...
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    Greens/EFA Round-up

    Greens/EFA priorities for the Strasbourg plenary included, carbon capture and storage, CO2 emissions from vans, plastic waste in the environment, honey labels and GMOs, public procurement, public services and innovation, Spain's new abortion law, free movement for all EU citizens, data protection and EU-US relations, EU passports for sale…
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    Video |

    Green corner: Free movement is a right, not a crime

    Free movement of workers is a fundamental principle on which the European Union is based. EU citizens should be able to work in all member states and the centre-right politicians' rhetoric about preventing Bulgarian and Romanian citizens from exercising this right amount to knee-jerk populism.
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    Press release |

    Turkey crisis

    Commenting on the proposed reform of the Turkish judicial system, which would undermine the independence of the judiciary, Green MEP and chair of the EP's Turkey delegation Hélène Flautre, and Dany Cohn-Bendit, co-president of the Greens/EFA group, said: "The unfolding events in Turkey are a ...
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    EU-US data protection

    Commenting in the context of a European Parliament debate on the EU-US Safe Harbour Agreement, which facilitates the transfer of data on EU citizens to US authorities by private enterprises, Green home affairs spokesperson and European Parliament draftsman/rapporteur on EU data protection legislatio...
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    Press release |

    Basque Political Prisoners - latest developments

    Last Tuesday when we decided to call this press conference in order to give our opinion on the document released by the Basque Political Prisoners Collective last December, 28th, we were aware of the demonstration that had been called for last Saturday in support of Basque prisoners. However, we did...