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    Brussels Agenda

    Greens/EFA agenda priorities Wednesday 14 October: The European Commission will publish progress reports on the accession of Turkey and Western Balkan countries. The Greens will also examine the Commission's proposal to be announced on emission performance standards for commercial vans and mini...
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    Freedom of information in Italy

    Greens/EFA consider that the freedom to receive and communicate information without interference of the state authorities is a fundamental principle on which the European Union has been founded and an essential element of democracy as well as pluralism of information media. It is urgent for the EU to define key minimum standards in order …
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    Human rights

    Today, at 15.00 in the European Parliament plenary chamber, Greens/EFA MEPs will display images of Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian journalist and human rights activist who was murdered three years ago on this day. This is to pay tribute not only to her, but to all those who have paid with their...
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    Sakharov Prize

    Today, a joint meeting of the European Parliament's foreign affairs and development committees selected a shortlist of three candidates for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. (1) Greens/EFA Co-presidents Rebecca Harms and Daniel Cohn-Bendit commented: "We are very pleased that Greens/EF...
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    Israel-Gaza

    UN Human Rights Council will today defer a vote on the Goldstone Gaza report until March 2010. The vote on the UN resolution concerning the report was mainly blocked by the US, with the silent support of the EU. The report of the Goldstone fact-finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict concluded that bot...
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    Brussels Agenda

    Greens/EFA priorities from rhe EU agenda and events including a press conference on press freedom in Italy.
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    The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought

    Over the years, Greens have often nominated candidates who also supported environmental progress in their fight for fundamental rights. Last year, the jailed Chinese dissident Hu Jia - who was nominated by the Greens/EFA Group - was awarded the Sakharov Prize. What about 2009 ?
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    Situation of human rights defenders in Russia in light of the recent abuses in Chechnya

    The background to the seminar and the film screening "Russian Lessons" (with the presence of the film director) is the worsening impunity of human rights violations in Russia in light of the recent abuses in Chechnya. Main focus will be on the recently dramatically intensified pattern of killing of human rights defenders in Russia.
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    Gaza conflict

    Richard Goldstone, head of the UN fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict, presents his report to the UN Human Rights Council today. The report sets out clear evidence that both Israel and Hamas committed violations of international human rights and humanitarian law and that neither side has taken...
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    Telecoms package

    Greens/EFA MEPs Christian Engström and Philippe Lamberts comment on the upcoming final stage 'conciliation' of telecoms legislation, ahead of the first meeting of the European Parliament delegation to this process.