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    Energy efficient buildings

    A political agreement has been reached on rules for "nearly zero energy" buildings after 2018 for new public buildings and after 2020 for other new buildings. But Council rejected calls to fund a new programme that would have boosted renovation of existing buildings, reduced CO2 emissions and created new jobs.
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    Letter to Anna

    The Greens/EFA Group will welcome Anna Politkovskaya's son and the film's director Eric Bergkraut to the screening of the documentary in the European Parliament. A debate will follow with the participation of Anna Politkovskaya's lawyer, the deputy editor in chief of Novaya Gazeta and NGO representatives, among others.
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    EU top jobs

    MEPs from five of the European Parliament's political groups hold a press conference to call upon EU heads of state and government to nominate more women candidates for the new European Commission and EU top jobs. So far only three of the 27 Member States have confirmed they will nominate a woman for a European Commission post.
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    Energy efficiency labelling

    An agreement was reached in the final "trialogue" discussion on energy efficiency labelling that took place this afternoon between the EU Parliament, EU Commission and EU Council. This will revise the rules on the well-known A-G labelling scale that already applies to certain domestic appliances. If...
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    MEP demands Welsh vote on UK Commissioner

    While the bargaining goes on over who will become the new unelected President of the European Council, European governments are also putting forward their nominees for members of the new 27 strong European Commission. Before being approved by the European Parliament, each one who has been proposed h...
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    Climate Proofing EU Structural and Cohesion Funds

    There is a strong consensus that climate change is one of the biggest challenges for European regions. It will affect both human and non-human environment and pose significant constraints to regional and local economies. Therefore, mitigating and adapting to climate change is a matter of urgent policy actions supported by targeted funding…
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    Bluefin tuna

    After nine days of backroom negotiations, the EU put forward a fishing quota proposal for bluefin tuna that is set to continue its slide towards extinction. Greens/EFA Vice-President Raül Romeva commented from the meeting in Recife.
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    Climate change: Incoherent cohesion policy?

    Ahead of a 17 November conference, Green MEP Elisabeth Schroedter comments on the contradictions between EU climate goals and its investment of cohesion and structural funds into projects that often run contrary to them.
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    Brussels Agenda

    Greens/European Free Alliance priorities and events for next week include the Special summit of EU leaders due to decide on EU top posts, the trialogue on energy efficiency and the EU-Russia Summit. In this context, Greens/EFA organise the screening of the documentary 'Letter to Anna' which pays tribute to Anna Politkovskaya and the strug…
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    Kosovo

    Kosovo's first local elections as an independent state were a democratic success.