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    Working time for lorry drivers

    The European Parliament in Strasbourg rejected a Commission proposal to change a directive on the working time of lorry drivers (1). The proposal aimed at excluding self employed drivers from the directive. Commenting on the result of the vote Green MEP Emilie Turunen, Member of the Social Affairs C...
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    Food information

    The European Parliament today adopted a regulation on food information for consumers. Commenting on the vote, Green MEP Carl Schlyter, Vice-President of the Environment committee said: "The European Parliament today has taken a step forward in the direction of better consumer information, but misse...
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    Green Jobs - Decent Work!

    This conference aims to define how to ensure good working conditions in the new sustainable economy and a socially just transformation. It will be divided in two panels dedicated to green quality jobs and to the Green New Deal and decent work.
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    SNP welcomes EU shift on healthcare

    SNP President Ian Hudghton MEP has welcomed news that the EU is moving away from plans which would have treated the Scottish NHS as an economic competitor on a Europe-wide healthcare market.The European Commission had previously proposed legislation on cross-border healthcare provision under interna...
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    Copyright treaty for visually impaired

    Tomorrow, Tuesday June 8th, an EU Council working group coordinated by DG Internal Market and the Spanish Presidency will decide the EU position concerning the proposal for a Treaty for the visually impaired (sponsored by Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador and Paraguay) that shall be considered at the World In...
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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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    Food quality

    Commenting on today's European Parliament vote to ban on the use of meat glue (bovine and/or porcine thrombin) in food (1), Carl Schlyter, Vice-president of the Environment Committee said: "We are happy that today the parliament banned the use of meat glue (Thrombin) in food. The Parliament was...
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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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    Europe 2020 - new European strategy for jobs and growth

    In their motion for a resolution, the Greens/EFA list five pillars on which an enhanced EU economic governance and integration must be based. They call for the full recognition and promotion of the social economy as an alternative economic model, linking economic activities with the realisation of social, health, employment and housing po…
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    Novel food

    Commenting on today's vote on the Novel Food Regulation in the Environment Committee, Green MEP Martin Häusling said: "The research underlying the study 'Cloned farm animals' (1) concluded that cloning could have adverse health effects. Higher rates of infection, along with diseases and malfor...