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    GMO cultivation

    In the coming weeks, the European Commission will submit to the Standing Committee on plants, animals, food and feed three draft regulations aimed at the renewal of the authorisation for cultivation in the EU of three GM maize varieties.
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    Megaprojects in Turkey
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    Turkey Progress Report

    The European Commission will present today its annual report on Turkey’s progress on EU membership. Commenting ahead of the report, Greens/EFA co-president Rebecca Harms said: “The EU and its Member States must strongly condemn the recent arrests and call on the Turkish government ...
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    Greens/EFA group reacts to Trump victory

    Commenting on the result of the US presidential election, Greens/EFA co-president Philippe Lamberts said: "The American people have taken their decision and the whole world will have to live with it. But we cannot hide our fear of the consequences. Donald Trump has fought a campaign based on r...
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    Members of the European Parliament failing to improve their own ethics system

      Today, members of the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee have voted to amend their “Rules of Procedure”, which govern the way the EU’s only directly elected institution works and which lay down ethics rules for MEPs in a legally binding Code of Conduct for avoiding conflic...
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    Corporate Tax Avoidance

      The Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament has uncovered that chemical giant BASF used aggressive tax strategies and a series of ‘tax tricks’ to avoid paying almost a billion euros in tax over a five year period between 2010 and 2014.  The new revelations come ahea...
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    Corporate tax avoidance

    A chemical giant abusing their powers... It might sound like the plot to a trashy old movie, found in the bargain bin on an old VHS. But sadly, it is merely the latest episode in a long-running real life horror saga. After Google, Amazon, Starbucks, McDonalds, IKEA, and Apple, you can now add BASF to the ever growing list of major compani…
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    Turkey

    Several members of Turkey’s opposition HDP party, including its leader Selahattin Demirtas, have been arrested and detained in Ankara.
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    Two years after the Luxleaks scandal

    A blog from our Tax Justice campaign Happy anniversary! Two years ago, the newly appointed European Commission – "the Commission of the last chance" – started its mandate with the Luxleaks scandal. After whistleblowers and journalists spoke out, European citizens learnt that...
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    Monsanto tribunal

    Do we need biotechnologies to feed the world? Answers from farmers and agriculture advisers from around the planet “We need biotechnologies to feed the world” is one of the bottom-line of the proponents of these technologies in agriculture and food production. For them, by fighting...
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    CETA

    Greens/EFA trade spokesperson Yannick Jadot reacts to the signing of CETA at EU-Canada summit.