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    EFA representatives met President Van Rompuy

    President of the European Free Alliance (EFA), Ms. Nelly Maes and MEP Jill Evans, President of the EFA Group in the European Parliament, met with the President of the European Council, Mr. Herman Van Rompuy.In the one hour meeting with Mr. Van Rompuy, held Thursday 4 March 2010, Ms. Nelly Maes and M...
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    Letter to Commissioner John Dalli on Amflora potato

    'Amflora' contains a gene which conveys resistance to antibiotics classified as 'critically important' and 'increasingly important' by the WHO and EMEA. Greens/EFA find it highly questionable that the Health Commissioner authorise a GM plant with an antibiotic marker gene, against the warning of the Authority under your responsibility, Eu…
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    Europe 2020 agenda: a path or barrier to the Green New Deal?

    On 3 March, the European Commission is publishing its Communication on the EU2020 Strategy. The Greens/EFA Group invite you to an event to analyse the “sustainability” of this strategy with key speakers from the green technologies sector, and public and private investment sector. The afternoon will see a debate on the key question: Is gro…
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    EU 2020 Strategy

    The Greens/EFA Group has criticised the Commission's Communication on the EU 2020 Strategy, which repeats mistakes from the Lisbon Strategy and fails to adequately address social and environmental concerns as essential to Europe's economic future.
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    PANEL SUMMARIES

    9.30 – 11.15 - Part 1:  How to ensure the EU leads on green technologies?Focus: Leaders in Green technologies in EuropeIntroductionIn its proposals for an EU 2020 Agenda the Commission is repeating the mistakes of the Lisbon Strategy by presenting a programme without demanding obligations. We need...
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    PRESENTATIONS

    3 March 2010
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    VIDEO

    Video Statements:Click on the names below to watch videoPart 1:  How to ensure the EU leads on green technologies?Claude Turmes MEP comments the European Commission's Europe 2020 strategy.Claude Turmes MEP speaks with Ditlev Engel, Giuliano Monizza, and Harry Verhaar.Part 2: What role for public an...
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    EFA representatives meet President Van Rompuy

    President of the European Free Alliance (EFA), Ms. Nelly Maes and MEP Jill Evans (Plaid Cymru), President of the EFA Group in the European Parliament, will be meeting the President of the European Council, Mr. Herman Van Rompuy this Thursday 4 March. In the one hour meeting with Mr. Van Rompuy,...
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    Data retention

    The German constitutional court in Karlsruhe today dismissed a German law on retaining data linked to communications, such as telephone calls and email. This is highly significant for the future debate in the EU on this matter and on SWIFT bank transfers and Passenger Name Records, according to Green MEP Jan-Philipp Albrecht.
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    GMOs

    The European Commission has issued the first new cultivation authorisation for a genetically-modified plant variety in 12 years, despite health and environment concerns. The resistance of one of its genes to medically-valuable antibiotics has been identified as a particular problem.