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    Smart borders

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    Transparent Banks

    Do you want to know how much money your banks make and where? Do you want to know how little taxes they pay and where? Do you want to know how much taxpayer support they have received and from whom? Do you want to know which tax havens they use? Then let us make the sun shine on banks’ tax affairs!
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    EU fisheries policy reform

    EU governments agreed on their collective position regarding proposals to overhaul the EU's Common Fisheries Policy last night. The Greens hit out at the agreement, which would seriously scale back planned reforms aimed at making the EU's fisheries policy more sustainable. Commenting on the outcome,...
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    EU bank regulation (CRD IV)

    Ahead of tomorrow's crunch negotiations between the European Parliament, Council and Commission on key legislative proposals establishing rules for banks (the capital requirements directive - CRD IV), the Greens have called on EU governments to drop their opposition to central provisions on bank...
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    EU ETS / aviation

    Today, the Environment committee in the European Parliament will vote on the Commission's proposal to “stop the clock” on aviation in the ETS. The Greens regret that the EU yield to the pressure, which will undermine the efforts by other sectors to reduce their emissions...
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    EU-Ukraine summit

    Commenting on today's EU-Ukraine summit in Brussels, Greens/EFA co-president Rebecca Harms said: "Ukraine's political leadership under president Yanukovych is consciously frittering away the chances for an association agreement. "Instead of finally strengthening the rule of law, the situa...
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    Event |

    Horsemeat scandal and the necessary EU response

    With: Rebbeca Harms (Germany - co-president of the Greens/EFA group), Bart Staes (Belgium) and Carl Schlyter (Sweden - vice-chair of the EP committee on environment, public health and food safety) Coming ahead of the forthcoming EU Council of Agriculture Minsters (Monday-Tuesday, 25-26 February), the Greens are hosting a press conferen…
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    Press release |

    Horsemeat scandal

    Ahead of today's council of EU agriculture ministers, who will discuss the ongoing horsemeat scandal, Green MEPs have set out their demands for EU-level action (1). The scandal has highlighted deficiencies with the procedures for verifying food quality, as well as shortcomings in EU legislation, n...
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    Eurozone fiscal policy

    The European Commission today published its Winter Economic Forecast (1). The figures show that France met its structural deficit reduction target in 2012 and is expected to do so in 2013 (2). The Greens underlined that France should be applauded for its effort in meeting its targets, whilst questio...
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    Brussels Agenda

    Greens/EFA priorities for the week include the horsemeat scandal and EU meat labelling rules, airline emissions and the EU emissions trading scheme, banking rules, capital requirements and remuneration, border control technology and civil liberties