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    30 years of children rights: let’s act!

    Thirty years ago, 20 November 1989, Members of the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). To date, it is the most widely ratified binding international treaty in the world - only the United States of America did not ratify it. However, there is still a lot of work to be done!
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    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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    Press release |

    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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    Natural gas - © Ratfink1973 Pixabay
    Press release |

    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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    Press release |

    Legal Affairs Committee clears Commissioner candidates of conflicts of interest

    The Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament has just confirmed the absence of conflicts of interest for Commissioner candidates Thierry Breton (FR), Adina-Ioana Vălean (RO) and Olivér Várhelyi (HU). The Legal Affairs decision opens the way for the three candidates to appear before joint committee hearings on Thursday
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    ECJ Advocate General's Opinion on Oriol Junqueras

    The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice has issued the opinion that our colleague Oriol Junqueras has the right to be a Member of the European Parliament, despite the Spanish Supreme Court not letting him take up his seat after he was elected in the last European elections in May.
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    ECJ ruling on Oriol Junqueras' rights as MEP

    The European Free Alliance Group in the European Parliament has welcomed today's opinion from the European Court of Justice's Advocate General in favour of Greens/EFA MEP Oriol Junqueras. The Advocate General stated that an MEP's mandate comes solely from the electorate and cannot be ...
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    Not Leaving Quietly

    This week we got together with the beautiful Joe Broughton's Conservatoire Folk Ensemble, UK political activist Femi and many young climate activists to celebrate how much they want to stay in the EU. They are #NotLeavingQuietly, and we wouldn't let them.
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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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    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…