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    CC0 Maksym Diachenko
    Sunset over the Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine
    Opinion |

    A law to heal our forests: why we need to restore nature now

    Ville Niinistö Jutta Paulus
    Opinion by Ville Niinistö & Jutta Paulus
    The European Commission proposed a new EU Nature Restoration Law to protect nature and ecosystems. But the new law is under attack. Read why here.
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    Erik Marquardt
    ukraine poland refugees
    Opinion |

    Letters from Lviv, Ukraine - MEP Erik Marquardt visits the Polish-Ukrainian border

    Erik Marquardt
    Opinion by Erik Marquardt
    Almost three million people have fled the Ukraine to seek safety in the EU. Read about MEP Erik Marquardt’s visit to the border between Ukraine and Poland.
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    Press release |

    MEPs vote for pay transparency in ambitious, inclusive & far reaching Directive to support equal pay

    The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality voted in favour of the European Parliament's position on the Pay Transparency Directive. The aim of the directive is to establish EU-wide minimum standards on pay transparency measures to enable workers to assert their right to equal pay…
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    ©melodie-descoubes
    Protest against gender based violence
    Policy Paper |

    Greens/EFA and Ministers welcome Historic EU Directive proposal to stop gender-based violence

    We welcome the proposal as a unique opportunity to pave the way to a feminist Europe by committing the Member States to take ambitious and binding actions towards ending gender-based violence in Europe.
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    Press release |

    MEPs vote for stronger obligations for climate and human rights

    The European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee adopted its report on the proposal for a directive on sustainability reporting by companies. The European Parliament is ensuring that the largest companies, including the most polluting ones such as oil and gas companies and cement companies, adopt strategies that are compatible with the f…
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    Press release |

    Quote from Ernest Urtasun on today's ECOFIN Council

    Today’s Economic and Financial Affairs Council is expected to reach an agreement on the global minimum tax level for multinationals. Please see a quote from Ernest Urtasun MEP, Greens/EFA Group Vice President and member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Subcommittee on Fiscal Affairs.
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    © European Union 2022 - Source : EP
    Gathering outside the EP building in support to Ukraine
    News |

    Debriefing of the March plenary session

    Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary week included the deterioration of the situation of refugees as a consequence of the Russian aggression against Ukraine, a debate on the EU's role in a changing world and the security situation of Europe following the Russian aggression and invasion on Ukraine, with Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas…
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    Press release |

    European Parliament votes to set up Pegasus inquiry committee into surveillance spying & espionage scandal

    The European Parliament has voted to set up an inquiry committee to investigate the use of surveillance spyware against citizens, activists and journalists. This follows revelations from an international consortium of journalists that many governments, including from EU Member States, have been using the NSO group’s Pegasus spyware again…
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    split screen with fossil fuel factory and windmills
    Press release |

    European Parliament adopts EU's Environmental Action Programme to 2030

    A large majority of MEPs voted to adopt the General Union Environment Action Programme to 2030 (8th EAP). This vote took place a week after the release of the IPCC report, which concluded that any further delay in global action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.
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    CC BY Greens/EFA
    Tuesday 2nd October. Protesters in Mexico march against Government plans to liberalise the country's labour laws
    News |

    EFA MEP Diana Riba speaks out for Mexican activists and Journalists.

    Diana Riba MEP intervened today in plenary to raise awareness of the alarming situation for journalists and civil society organisations.