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    Press release |

    EU budget discharge

    The European Parliament today voted on the discharge of the EU budget for 2010, with MEPs voting to withhold giving clearance to the budgets of certain EU agencies and the EU Council's budget (1). Commenting on the outcome, and the decision to refuse to discharge the budgets of the European Food Saf...
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    Meeting today's challenges

    The Greens/EFA event in Copenhagen focused on two challenges facing Europe : the ongoing Arab Spring and the EU's response and the way out of the crisis with green jobs.
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    News |

    Stop Climate Change Newsletter

    In this month's newsletter : international climate objectives, the battle against shale gas in Europe continues, EED - EU states prefer to listen to fossil fuel exporters rather than their own citizens
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    Stop climate change blog

    Early this week, informal discussions took place in Brussels with Members of the "coalition of ambition" ahead of UN talks in Bonn. The Greens insist that Europe give concrete expression to this new alliance with least developped countries and that it continues to lead the climate debate forward...
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    Press release |

    EU agencies - conflicts of interest

    The chair of the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) management board Diána Bánáti has resigned from her position (1) following pressure from the European Parliament, and the Greens in particular, over conflicts of interest. Tomorrow, the European Parliament will vote on the EU 2010 budget dischar...
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    Press release |

    Elections in France and Greece

    Commenting on the outcome of the elections in France and Greece, Greens/EFA co-president Dany Cohn-Bendit said: "This weekend's elections in France and Greece have given a clear signal to Europe that it needs to change tack in its response to the crisis. "It has been clear for some time t...
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    News |

    ACTA anti-counterfeiting agreement

    The chair of the European Parliament's legal affairs committee has written to EU trade commissioner De Gucht outlining the committee's dissatisfaction with how the Commission has handled the controversial ACTA anti-counterfeiting agreement from a legal standpoint. The letter came after pressure from...
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    Brussels Agenda

    Highlights of the week for the Greens/EFA include plenary votes on mobile phone roaming, on financial transaction tax, on rejecting patents on biological processes,...
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    Press release |

    Patenting of animal breeding

    The European Patent Office in Munich today revoked a patent previously awarded to US firm Inguran and its affiliate XY LLC for a process of animal breeding, which allows the selection of the sex of offspring, as well as sperm cells. The so-called 'XY patent' was revoked on technical grounds but the ...
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    Press release |

    Ukraine-Tymoshenko

    Commenting on reports that jailed former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has started a hunger strike in response to the conditions of her detention, mistreatment and being denied access to suitable medical treatment, Greens/EFA co-president Rebecca Harms stated: "Reports of the serio...