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    Basque Friendship Group re-established

    The European Parliament's Basque Friendship Group has been re-established for this next term of the European Parliament. It is made up of 14 MEPs from 5 different political groups and includes EFA MEPs Jill Evans, Ian Hudghton and Tatjana Ždanoka who were founder members. The group was established ...
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    Hungary defamation case

    The district court of Budapest yesterday ruled in favour of Green MEP Ulrike Lunacek in a defamation case brought against the Hungarian journalist Zsolt Bayer for injurious statements made on Hungarian television. Commenting on the ruling, Ulrike Lunacek said: "It is welcome that the Hungarian ...
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    EU asylum rules

    The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) today ruled that the authorities in Switzerland could not return an asylum seeking family to Italy due to insufficient guarantees regarding the welfare of the family. The Greens welcomed the ruling and cited it as further evidence of the need to revise the E...
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    FRONTEX Mediterranean mission

    On 1 November, a new Frontex mission called Triton starts in the Mediterranean, replacing the earlier Mare Nostrum mission, which focused on saving lives at sea in the aftermath of the Lampedusa disaster last year. The Greens have expressed concern that stopping the Mare Nostrum mission will lead to...
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    43 Student teachers missing in Mexico

    Six people were killed and 43 student teachers disappeared on the 26th September 2014 in Guerrero, Mexico.
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    Greens/EFA Roundup

    Greens/EFA priorities for the Strasbourg Plenary included the Ebola crisis and the EU's response, the Energy and climate policy and the EU summit, Hungary's crackdown on civil society, the election of the European Commission, the EU budget, bullfighting, lobbying and the single seat and rounding up migrants in coordinated EU action.
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    Fundamental Rights and the new Commission

    Plenary speech from Judith Sargentini For several years now there have been signals that Hungary is moving away from the core values of the European Union. This was affirmed this year by Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, when he openly admitting his wish to build an illiberal state. ...
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    Closing down of Memorial (Sakharove Prize 2009) in Russia

    Tabled by Tamás Meszerics, Heidi Hautala, Peter Eriksson, Helga Trüpel, Bart Staes, Ernest Urtasun, Barbara Lochbihler, Reinhard Bütikofer, Indrek Tarand on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group The European Parliament, - having regard to its previous reports and resolutions on Russia, in particula...
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    Human rights in Uzbekistan

    Tabled by Heidi Hautala, Tamás Meszerics, Barbara Lochbihler, Ernest Urtasun on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group The European Parliament, - having regard to its previous resolutions on Uzbekistan, - having regard to its resolution on the state of implementation of the EU strategy for Cent...
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    Abduction of 43 students in Guerrero/Mexico

    Tabled by Ernest Urtasun, Josep-Maria Terricabras, Ska Keller, Barbara Lochbihler, Ulrike Lunacek, Heidi Hautala, Jordi Sebastià, Bodil Ceballos on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group The European Parliament, - having regard to the EU local statement concerning Iguala, issued in agreement with...