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    Press release |

    Greens/EFA welcome that deal has been reached but insist on time for parliamentary scrutiny

    A deal has been reached between negotiators from the European Union and United Kingdom on a future relationship, to follow the end of the Brexit transition period, which concludes at the end of this year. The deal will still need to be approved by the European Council and the European Parliament. The Greens/EFA group are calling for the E…
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    Green light for financing sustainable recovery

    Negotiations were concluded on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the central piece of the Next Generation EU package, designed to help the EU through the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic. The, RRF will make €672.5 billion (€312.5 billion in grants and €360 billion in loans) available to member states to support their in…
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    News |

    Greens/EFA debriefing of the plenary session

    Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary week included the Council Conclusions on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), Rule of Law and Climate Law, the presentation of the Digital Service Act (DSA), the Drinking Water Directive, transitional provisions for Agricultural Funds, the European Year of Rail 2021, a new Strategy for European …
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    Press release |

    China: Forced labour and the situation of the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang

    The atrocities against the Uyghur ethnic minority in Xinjiang and rampant state-imposed forced labour are crimes against humanity. The European Parliament is calling on European companies to break off business relations with Chinese partners if they abet human rights violations.
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    Opinion |

    CAP 2020

    Confused about the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and everything that's going on around it? Check this article and get a green perspective.
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    Press release |

    Rubber-stamping of Brexit deal ignores European Parliament's responsibilities

    European Parliament group leaders agreed in the Conference of Presidents of the Parliament to push ahead with a vote on a potential Brexit deal before the end of the year. The Greens/EFA group express concern that expediting the consent procedure will not allow adequate time for proper democratic scrutiny of any potential deal with the UK…
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    Opinion |

    Stop the import of GM crops destroying nature

    Eleonora Evi Tilly Metz
    Opinion by Eleonora Evi & Tilly Metz
    MEPs Tilly Metz and Eleonora Evi argue that the EU must no longer be complicit in the destruction of primary forests, expansion of monocultures and use of toxic chemicals banned in the EU through the continued import of GM crops.
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    Protesters face riot police in Belarus
    Press release |

    Sakharov Prize - Belarussian democratic opposition

    Today (Wednesday 16 December), the European Parliament formally awards the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to the Belarusian opposition.
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    Press release |

    Parliamentary unity in negotiations on long-term budget paid-off

    Members of the European Parliament are voting on a resolution on the outcome of last week's European Council summit on the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 (MFF), the InterInstitutional Agreement, the EU Recovery Instrument and the Rule of Law Regulation.
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    Press release |

    Clean water for the whole EU

    EU-wide clean drinking water is a great success for the initiative from civil society. We owe it to the efforts of civil society that our drinking water will be cleaner in the future. For the first time, limit values for endocrine disruptors and stricter values for lead will make tap water cleaner. All of Europe will see the roll out of p…