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Position papers include all papers formally adopted by our Group and thus representing our official position on major issues. Policy papers gather all briefings, brochures, statements from working groups or other Group bodies which have not been submitted to a vote but reflect a more technical position on specific topics. Studies are reports commissioned to experts and are accompanied most of the time with our political recommendations. For information and transparency purposes, we also publish here all Group letters sent to the other institutions or representatives

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    Implementation of the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI)

    The European Citizens' Initiative is one of the innovations introduced by the Lisbon Treaty. The ECI is the very first step towards a more participatory model of democracy in Europe and will for the first time give people the possibility to raise issues and to bring them on the agenda of their political institutions.
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    Environmental risk assessment of genetically modified plants

    Risk assessment on GM crops is a controversy subject in the European Union. EFSA is now about to publish its guidelines for a new procedure for GMO risk assessment, the so-called «step-by-step procedure». Greens/EFA MEPs Bélier and Bové have commissioned a study on this new procedure by an independent institute.
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    Israeli military operation against the humanitarian flotilla and the Gaza blockade

    The Greens/EFA condemn the military operation against the humanitarian ship convoy and urge Israel to immediately, comprehensively and permanently end the siege on Gaza while reaffirming there is an urgent need for a comprehensive reshaping of EU policy towards the Middle East.
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    EU position in relation to the G20 Toronto Summit (26 and 27 June 2010)

    Tabled by Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Rebecca Harmson behalf of the Greens/EFA Group The European Parliament, – having regard to the Leaders' Statement issued following the Pittsburgh G20 Summit of 24 and 25 September 2009,– having regard to its resolution of 8 October 2009 on the Pittsburgh G20 Summit ...
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    No way out of the crisis without European economic governance

    After several months of vacillation, European leaders and the European Central Bank (ECB) finally resolved – during the night of Sunday May 9 to Monday May 10 – to establish a unprecedentedly comprehensive rescue plan for the eurozone. In parallel, on Wednesday May 12, the Commission issued propos...
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    Europe 2020 - new European strategy for jobs and growth

    In their motion for a resolution, the Greens/EFA list five pillars on which an enhanced EU economic governance and integration must be based. They call for the full recognition and promotion of the social economy as an alternative economic model, linking economic activities with the realisation of social, health, employment and housing po…
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    Agro-Biotechnology

    Risks and consequences of the introduction of cloned animals for food production A Testbiotech Report prepared for Matin Häusling, MEP.
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    Statutes of the Greens/EFA Group

    CHAPTER I CONSTITUTION OF THE GROUP 1.1 The Parliamentary Group was constituted on 19 July 1989, under the name ‘The Green Group in the European Parliament’, in accordance with the provisions of its Rules of Procedure and the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament. The decla...
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    Letter to Commissioner Damanaki on bluefin tuna

    In the wake of Commission commitments to saving the bluefin tuna, but failure to secure a ban at CITES, Green MEPs Isabella Lovin and Raül Romeva have written to Maria Damanaki, European Commissioner for Fisheries, urging her to support a unilateral ban on the industrial fishing and export of bluefin tuna.
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    European External Action Service and its relation to Gender issues