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    Hemicycle European Parliament Strasbourg
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    What's coming up this week

    A look ahead to the plenary session in the European Parliament in Strasbourg and the Greens/EFA priority issues on the agenda
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    The EU-Mercosur Agreement: A threat to the environment and livelihoods?

    The EU-Mercosur free trade agreement, due to be voted by the European Parliament during this mandate, will be discussed in detail with researchers, experts and civil society. The event is open to all and will be livestreamed on the day
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    Fridays for Future Berlin 2019 (CC BY 2.0) Jörg Farys / WWF
    Fridays for Future Berlin 2019
    Press release |

    Greens/EFA call on action instead of empty declarations

    A Group of MEPs among which the Greens/EFA tabled an amendment for the resolution ahead of the UN Climate Conference COP25 to ask for the declaration of climate emergency on a European level. The European Parliament should not only officially declare climate emergency, but also agree on a number of concrete measures to make the declarati…
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    Budget © nobiggie
    Budget
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    Breakthrough for climate budget

    The European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission agreed on a green EU budget for the year 2020. The climate budget is finally becoming real under pressure from the Greens/EFA and the European Parliament. The ambitious fight against youth unemployment threatened to fail because of national egotisms in the Council. Yet, in t…
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    © Ratfink1973 Pixabay
    Natural gas - © Ratfink1973 Pixabay
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    EIB takes big step towards becoming a climate bank but loopholes remain

    EU Member States and the Commission agreed to a new energy lending policy for the European Investment Bank. It is a good step in the right direction and a milestone on the road to ending investments for fossil fuels altogether. The EIB needs to become the climate bank of Europe but we're not quite there yet.
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    Trump at Andeavor Refinery ©Official White House Photos by D. Myles Cullen
    Trump at Andeavor Refinery ©Official White House Photos by D. Myles Cullen
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    US formally requests to withdraw from Paris Climate Agreement

    Donald Trump is shirking the USA's responsibility to the world and to its own people by pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement.
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    poland supreme court
    Press release |

    ECJ rules Poland in breach of EU Treaties for rules on judges

    The European Court of Justice has just ruled that Poland is in breach of the EU Treaties for measures aimed at lowering the retirement age of judges, at different ages for men and women, and for allowing the Minister of Justice discretion to prolong judges' service. The Greens/EFA group have long argued that this amounts to political inte…
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    bee sunflower
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    Protection of bees against harmful pesticides

    The very partial implementation of the Bee Guidance Document is the latest of many comitology 'black box' scandals. Everybody claims they love bees, but the decision making process on how to really protect them is taking place in the dark and does not aim to protect them properly, based on existing scientific evidence.
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    European Parliament demands better protection for bees

    The Parliament's objection is sending a strong signal to the Commission not to bow to the pressure of Member States and the agro-chemical industry. The Parliament is demanding a new text that fully implements existing scientific guidelines. Bee populations are suffering everywhere largely due to the use of pesticides, with major consequen…
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    solar panels
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    European Parliament votes to make the MFF work for the climate

    Today a large majority of MEPs voted to make the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2021-2027 work for the climate. Rasmus Andresen, shadow rapporteur for the Greens/EFA group on the EU's 2020 budget, comments: "The European Parliament wants to turn the EU budget into the driving f...