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    Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre

    4th of June is the 21st anniversary of the brutal repression of the students and workers who occupied Tiananmen Square. What happened that night was a massacre about which very little has been revealed since. All of this information is still a state secret, something intolerable on the eve of important trade agreements between China and t…
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    Israeli attack on Gaza Peace Flotilla

    The Co-Presidents of the Greens/EFA in the European Parliament, Rebecca Harms and Daniel Cohn-Bendit today sent a letter to Catherine Ashton, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Vice-President of the EU Commission, which follows: Dear Ms Ashton, Following several deaths as a result of an Isr...
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    Gaza Humanitarian Aid Flotilla

    Greens/EFA strongly condemn the deadly attack of Israeli commandos on the humanitarian aid convoy in the Mediterranean.This attack is a serious infringement of the principles of international humanitarian law. Greens/EFA call upon the European Union and the international community to apply pressure for the lifting of the current blockade …
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    e-fa News Round-Up May 2010

    The European Free Alliance (EFA) draws together political parties fighting for democracy and self-determination for the stateless nations and regions of Europe. European Free Alliance MEPs sit in a joint European parliamentary group with the Greens, making up the fourth largest group in parliament.E...
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    Equal treatment

    Today the European Parliament voted in favour of a compromise agreement revising EU rules on the equal treatment of self-employed men and women (1). Following the vote, Green/ICV MEP Raül Romevasaid: "Today's vote will help strengthen EU rules on the equal treatment of self-empl...
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    European Asylum Support Office

    The EU Parliament today approved a report (1) by Jean Lambert on the creation of a European Asylum Support Office. The UK Green MEP commented: "I am delighted that the Parliament has now given its final seal of approval for the establishment of the much needed and long awaited European Asylum S...
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    MEP sceptical about Schengen data sharing

    Civil Liberties Committee Member Tatjana Zdanoka says that she remains unconvinced that a revised Schengen Information System will properly deal with concerns about data protection and personal privacy.This is a shared database that allows law enforcement authorities across the EU's Schengen Area to...
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    SWIFT

    Commenting on today's EU Parliament resolution on the new negotiation mandate on providing SWIFT bank data to the US authorities, Green MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht said: "Once again, the European Parliament has emphasised the relevance of a high level of data protection for transatlantic security ...
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    Columbia

    Commenting on the most recent disclosure that the Colombian secret service DAS  (Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad) tried to influence the EP's Human Rights Committee with illegal measures, Heidi Hautala, President of the Sub-Committee for Human Rights of the European Parliament and &nbs...
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    Human Rights in Russia

    The Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament and the European Green Party condemn in the strongest possible terms the raid by police on the offices of the Social-Ecological Union (SEU) in the city of Samara. SEU is oldest and largest environmental organisation in Russia and is one of the country'...