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    Press release |

    Coronavirus / Europe's islands - call for urgent EU intervention

    Europe's islands could face economic collapse as a result of the necessary measures put in place to combat the spread of Coronavirus, and targetted intervention at EU level is needed to prevent this. That is the message that a cross party group of MEPs representing many of Europe's island...
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    Hand holding grain © Bart Sadowski
    Press release |

    Corona-crisis must not be an excuse for postponement

    A leak today (Thursday, 16th April) has revealed that the European Commission is considering postponing the Farm-to-Fork and Biodiversity Strategies. The Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament rejects any postponement and calls for the timetable to be maintained, especially in view of the ongoing negotiations on the reform of the Com…
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    Press release |

    We need European solidarity now

    The majority of MEPs voted against mutualisation of debts, an amendment proposed by the Greens/EFA on the resolution on the COVID-19 pandemic. Greens all over the European Union support this initiative.
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    Board announcing emergency linked to Coronavirus disease outbreak
    Press release |

    Repeal of confinement measures must be coordinated at EU-level

    Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Council President Charles Michel, presented the roadmap Joint European Roadmap towards lifting COVID-19 containment measures.
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    Press release |

    Ministers agree on fiscal measures to combat COVID-19 crisis, now EU leaders must decide on Corona bonds

    Last night, European finance ministers reached an agreement on the COVID-19 crisis to utilise the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) to finance support for the domestic financing of costs related to healthcare, cure and prevention costs for the Coronavirus. The Eurogroup meeting also agreed to the Commission's SURE proposal for unemployme…
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    Opinion |

    The COVID-19 crisis reveals the many fissures of the EU food system and shows us the way out

    As COVID-19 hits the EU agri-food sector hard, it also reveals its main shortcomings. Far from shying away from the issues, we should use this occasion to reshape the EU food and farming system to the benefit of farmers, consumers and their shared environment, with the help of the future Farm to Fork strategy, and, hopefully a refounded C…
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    Euro banknotes © Markus Spiske
    Euro banknotes © Markus Spiske
    Policy Paper |

    The Greens/EFA’s proposal for an EU coronavirus fund

    Ahead of the Eurogroup meeting on 7th of April 2020, the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament unveils a proposal for an EU coronavirus fund to tackle the economic consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak. Europe is in a critical situation and we need European solidarity now more than ever.
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    (C) Lars Aronsson
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    Press release |

    Greens/EFA call for corona bonds in response to the crisis

    Ahead of tomorrow's Eurogroup meeting of eurozone Finance Ministers, Greens/EFA Members of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee in the European Parliament are calling for European solidarity and corona bonds issued by an EU fund in a new paper in response to the corona crisis
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    Le coronavirus menace le monde
    Opinion |

    All about the european green deal

    The European Green Deal is a pact that was launched this year by the European Commission. It aims to make Europe the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050. This all sounds good on paper, but will it be enough?
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    News |

    Now Europe, now Eurobonds

    In the last days, we have witnessed an inexplicable European paralysis to address the COVID-19 crisis. It has taken too long to see patients crossing borders to be treated in neighbouring countries, or material circulating from one country to another. Fortunately, it seems that solidarity within Europe is growing every day, and we are fin…