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    Event |

    Coded Bias – On Discriminatory Algorithms and the Need to Ban Biometric Mass Surveillance Technologies

    The Greens/EFA campaign against biometric mass surveillance is organizing a screening of Shalini Kantayya’s award-winning documentary “Coded Bias” followed by a panel debate on algorithmic biases and how they are being addressed in the Artificial Intelligence Regulation.
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    Samos Camp ©MSF/Dora Vangi
    Samos Camp ©MSF/Dora Vangi
    Opinion |

    One year after the EU migration pact, a better future for refugees?

    Damian Boeselager
    Opinion by Damian Boeselager
    A year ago, the European Commission published its proposals for a new Pact on Migration and Asylum. But the last 12 months have painfully highlighted the shortcomings in the EU’s approach on asylum. Read more about what needs to change, and which solutions we propose.
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    Man holding beetroots/ CC0 heather-gill
    Man holding beetroots/ CC0 heather-gill
    Opinion |

    How the Farm to Fork Strategy can Fix our Food System

    Tilly Metz Sarah Wiener
    Opinion by Tilly Metz & Sarah Wiener
    As the food and farming arm of the European Green Deal, the Farm to Fork strategy aims to push forward the ongoing sustainable transformation of food systems, whilst ensuring fair economic returns for farmers. Despite the backlash from certain industries, can the Farm to Fork Strategy actually fix our food system?
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    Press release |

    Greens/EFA welcome Commission's push in the fight against cable clutter

    The European Commission presented its long-awaited proposal for standardised charging cables. The proposal is part of the revision of the Radio Equipment Directive from 2014. The proposals will see uniform charging cables for mobile phones, headphones, cameras and loudspeakers, to save resources, reduce waste and as a building block of th…
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    Car emissions
    Press release |

    WHO recommends tighter limits on air pollutants - EU must catch up

    The World Health Organisation's guidelines send a clear signal for clean air and our health. The recommendations are a call for the European Commission to do more for air quality in the EU. People in the EU have a right to clean air.
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    Video |

    The EU Ethics Body

    Why do we need an EU Ethics Body? The current system of self-monitoring is not strong enough to prevent scandals around conflicts of interest and revolving door effects within the EU institutions. The independent Ethics body is a big step forward to guarantee trust in European democracy. The new Ethics body can finally enforce the existin…
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    News |

    Debriefing of the September plenary session

    Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary week included the State of the European Union, new proposal for a ban on products made with forced labour, the situation in Afghanistan, identifying gender-based violence as a new area of crime listed in Article 83(1) TFEU, media freedom and further deterioration of the Rule of law in Poland, the Fit …
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    Video |

    Feminist History

    The European Parliament just made feminist history! In a plenary vote it adopted a report by Greens/EFA MEP Diana Riba i Giner to call for #GenderBasedViolence to be included as a new area of crime under EU law ➜ https://greens.eu/3kfzS4H The work continues.
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    Press release |

    EFA welcomes €5 billion Brexit Adjustment Reserve

    After months of negotiations, the European Parliament has given the green light for a €5 billion fund to help regions worst affected by Brexit. EFA MEP François Alfonsi, who participated in the negotiations, has welcomed the fund as significant boost for Europe’s hardest hit reg...
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    Press release |

    European Parliament calls for gender-based violence to become a crime across the EU

    Members of the European Parliament have voted in favour of a report calling for gender-based violence to be added to the list of Eurocrimes and for the Commission to come out with a proposal for an EU-wide directive on gender-based violence. This report provides a clear legal basis for establishing minimum rules concerning the definition …