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    A Green perspective on international trade

    Trade, as an ordinary means of cooperation to satisfy human needs, is an age old concept. However, contemporary international trade relations fail to create welfare for all in a fair and balanced way, and disrespect human needs beyond material welfare creation. Green trade policy aims at less but better trade.
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    Suspension of the Doha Round

    The Doha Development Round of WTO trade talks were suspended in July 2006, officially as a result of a failure by the US and the EU failure to find a compromise on tariff cuts for agricultural products and the limits of agricultural subsidies. In reality, the whole Doha Round has been hampered by a myriad of problems for years.
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    Export of toxic waste to Africa

    Greens/EFA call on the Commission, the Netherlands and Côte d'Ivoire to fully investigate this case, to establish responsibilities at all levels, to bring to justice those responsible for this environmental crime and to ensure that the environmental contamination is comprehensively dealt with and the victims are compensated
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    Promoting human rights

    Thanks to the work of the Green presidency, the subcommittee is increasingly playing an expert role on human rights and democracy, providing input to reports from the Foreign Affairs committee, mainstreaming human rights issues throughout Parliament bodies and creating a platform for permanent dialogue with civil society representatives
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    Freedom of expression

    Over the years, Greens have very often supported candidates who also supported environmental progress in their fight for fundamental rights. Our fight for the cyber-dissidents from China, Iran and Tunisia in 2005 resulted in a resolution on the freedom of expression on the internet. What about 2006 ?
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    Illegal detention of prisoners in Europe

    Many suspicions have recently been confirmed by the recent statement made by George Bush admitting the existence of secret detention centres operated by US services. The main task of the committee now is to check whether such centres have actually been operated in the EU but it is particularly difficult to find the truth
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    Human rights in the world

    The European Parliament issues an annual report on human rights and democracy in the world and adopts every month resolutions cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law.
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    Energy efficiency action plan

    After several delays, the European Commission eventually released the plan to improve energy efficiency in the European Union. It is a first small step in the right direction. However, the transport sector has once again been widely ignored.
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    Human rights and democracy clause in EU agreements

    The Greens have worked for years on the implementation of a human rights and democracy clause in EU agreements. Since the adoption of the report, when negotiating with countries with a poor record of human rights, the inclusion of a human rights clause and a special monitoring mechanism is part of the discussion
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    Climate change costs

    A study commissioned by the NGO Friends of the Earth looks at the potential costs and benefits of warmer weather around the globe. The possible benefits of global warming will quickly be offset by the costs of extreme weather events - droughts, floods, powerful storms, heat waves.