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    Opinion |

    How to end cruel animal transports

    Tilly Metz Caroline Roose Thomas Waitz
    Opinion by Tilly Metz & Caroline Roose & Thomas Waitz
    Every day, thousands of animals are transported in horrific conditions across the European Union and beyond for breeding, fattening or slaughter. The Greens/EFA are fighting for an end to these cruel practices. Negotiations on the Committee’s report are now coming to an end.
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    News |

    Debriefing of the November plenary session

    Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary week included the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), 2022 budgetary procedure, the outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow, the critical materials INI report, taxonomy, condemning Police Violence against Romani people, the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Belarus debate and address by Sviatlana Tsikhanousk…
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    Video |

    This Black Friday, help us ban ads exploiting personal data!

    On Black Friday, online platforms are pushing ads in front of your eyes more than ever. Companies track and monitor everything you watch, click and like online and manipulate you into giving your data. This data is combined and analysed to figure out who you are, what you're interested in or worried about… and then to advertise certain pr…
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    Video |

    Signal for help - We need a law against gender-based violence now!

    This year the signal for help for victims of violence went viral on TikTok, saving at least one kidnapped girl’s life. It has become a universal signal as a call for help and to escape gender-based violence. But we cannot rely on hand signals to save young girls and women from violence against them.
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    Ostrovets Nuclear Power Plant
    Event |

    Press conference on taxonomy: Stop the greenwashing of nuclear power and gas

    The representatives from France, Germany and Luxembourg will discuss the urgent need to exclude gas and nuclear power from the taxonomy list of sustainable investments with a view on the French Council Presidency.
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    Press release |

    Government must halt attacks on ‘Memorial’ & civil society

    Memorial, one of the most prominent Russian human rights organisations, and a former Sakharov Prize laureate, is facing threats of being dismantled by the Russian courts. The action by prosecutors is based on allegations that Memorial has failed to comply with requirements of the controversial law on ‘foreign agents’, legislation that sti…
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    Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya meeting the Greens/EFA in Strasbourg
    Press release |

    EU must stand in solidarity against Belarusian regime

    Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the leader of the democratic opposition in Belarus will address Members of the European Parliament. The Greens/EFA Group are calling for the EU’s unequivocal support for the democratic opposition and independent civil society in Belarus. The Greens/EFA Group condem the instrumentalisation of refugees and migrants…
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    Press release |

    EU Industry must play its part in tackling climate change

    MEPs have today debated the outcome of the COP26 conference on climate change that took place recently in Glasgow. EFA MEP Piernicola Pedicini spoke in the debate where European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans was also present.   Pedicini called for the EU to ensure that ind...
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    Mostar Bridge
    Press release |

    EU has responsibility to support peace in Bosnia & Western Balkans

    MEPs will debate the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the request of the Greens/EFA Group, following the recent worrying political developments in the country. The Greens/EFA Group are calling for the EU to take the lead in finding a political solution to the current crisis. Any political agreement must not further deepen ethnic di…
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    Press release |

    No green light from Greens/EFA - CAP reform is set to again fail farmers, climate & environment

    The majority of MEPs voted in favour of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for 2023-2027. Rather than using this next CAP period, and one third of the EU budget, to help solve the climate and environment emergency, or the loss of thousands of farmers per day, the final agreement repackages the status quo and falls short of the promises …