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    A day in Fukushima - A week in Japan

    Accompanied by two Japanese anti-nuclear activists, her policy adviser Silke Malorny and the former head of the Bulgarian Nuclear Regulatory Agency, Gueorgui Kastchiev, Rebecca Harms went on a lecture and research tour to Tokyo, Osaka, Matsuyama City, Yokohama and Fukushima. Based on her notes from ...
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    Brussels Agenda

    Greens/EFA priorities for the week include EU bank capital rules, banker bonuses and account transparency, CAP reform: assessment ahead of the vote, GMO-free labelling and animal feed, Fukushima two years on, Zero waste: beyond recycling conference and film screening with Jeremy Irons, Boardroom quotas for women
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    GMO-free labelling

    Food products that contain GMOs must be labelled in the EU. But this obligation has not been imposed on animal products from animals that have been fed with GMOs. The consequence of this legal vacuum is that the food industry imports millions of tonnes of GMOs to feed EU animals without any inform...
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    Time has come for a fairer CAP

    Subsidies should be distributed more fairly among the 27 member states and between farmers within each state. One of the main ways in which this could be is by limiting the amount of aid that a farmer can receive. Such a proposal would allow for a far more equitable distribution of public funds to support family farms and small and medium…
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    CAP Reform

      The vote in the Agricultural committee in January unravelled the European Commission's somewhat Green leaning proposal on CAP reform and resulted in an even less ambitious text. Capping the CAP, the proposal to place a limit on direct payments to each farm, is reduced to "optional"...
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    Youth unemployment

    EU employment and social affairs ministers today adopted a European Youth Guarantee Scheme which ensures that all young people under the age of 25 in Europe are entitled to receive a good-quality offer of employment, education, apprenticeship or traineeship within a period of four months after becom...
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    EU bank regulation (CRD IV)

    A deal on key legislative proposals establishing rules for banks (the capital requirements directive - CRD IV) was reached in negotiations between the European Parliament, Council and Commission last night. The Greens welcomed the outcome, which will provide for an EU cap on bank bonuses and provisi...
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    EU border control plans

    The European Commission will today present proposals on the use of new technologies to control Europe's borders. The so-called 'Smart Borders' package includes controversial proposals to register the fingerprints of essentially all non-EU citizens [1] every time they enter and exit the EU, as well a...
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    Plaid MEP showcases Welsh produce at European Parliament

    Plaid MEP, Jill Evans, welcomed members of the Farmers' Union of Wales to the European Parliament in Brussels today to promote high quality Welsh produce.  She hosted the annual breakfast to showcase Welsh food and draw attention to the importance of an agricultural policy that continues to sup...
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    e-fa: News Round-Up

    February 2013 Round-Up The European Free Alliance (EFA) draws together political parties fighting for democracy and self-determination for the stateless nations and regions of Europe. European Free Alliance MEPs sit in a European parliamentary group with the Greens, making up the fourth largest grou...