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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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    State of affairs: EU Commission Energy/Climate package

    The second session focused on the EU's climate and energy package of legislation. Coming just three days after key votes in the European Parliament on three of the main legislative proposals, it provided a good opportunity to discuss the state of affairs with the French presidency, which was represe...
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    EU policy: human rights or economic cynicism ?

    Daniel Cohn-Bendit, co-president of the Greens Group in the European Parliament, opened the debate describing Europe as at the crossroads of crises and the right political space to address them. How, with Russia and China particularly in mind, can the French EU presidency help to reconcile human rig...
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    International climate talks

    Danish climate minister Connie Hedegaard outlined the state of play in the international climate negotiations to the EP Climate Change committee. Despite slow progress, she gave an upbeat assessment but stressed the importance of a timely EU agreement on a strong Climate Package.
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    Situation in Belarus

    The Greens stress that serious concerns remain with regard to fundamental rights of freedom of assembly and expression, and access by voters to a plurality of views; Point out that, while the EU has welcomed the recent release of several democratic opposition activists and nurtured hopes for an improvement in organisation of arrangements …
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    Climate campaign newsletter

    Its crunch time for the climate package of EU legislation with key votes in the European Parliament, deals being negotiated in the Council and intense lobbying from industry. This issue looks at this progress, as well as summing-up other climate news.
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    Written declaration on the use of open source software

    WRITTEN DECLARATION 0046/2008pursuant to Rule 116 of the Rules of ProcedureLapse date: 25.9.2008The European Parliament,– having regard to Rule 116 of its Rules of Procedure,A. having regard to the growing disparities in access to information and communication technologies in the European Union, re...
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    Plenary FLASH - September II 2008

    New legislation needed to regulate the financial sectorRasmussen report (Monday)Hedge funds and private equity investments lack transparency and are geared towards making short-term gains. These characteristics and the tendency of hedge funds to explore market imperfections create systematic risk i...
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    Albino killings in Tanzania

    The Greens/EFA Group strongly condemns the killings of the albinos in Tanzania and calls on the Commission to actively support the Albino Association of Tanzania and their call on academics, religious leaders and human rights activists to make members of the public aware that the killing of albinos is socially and morally unjustified.
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    Death penalty in Iran

    The Greens/EFA Group is profoundly saddened over the recent execution of several juvenile offenders in Iran, making Iran the only country in the world where this grave violation of international standards of law is still practiced; Strongly condemns the persecution and imprisonment of Iranian citizens in Iran who engage in the defence of …
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    Situation in Georgia

    The Greens/EFA take the view that there can be no military solution to the conflicts in the Caucasus and criticise strongly, in that connection, the attack by Georgian forces on the Tskhinvali region and strongly condemns the disproportinate Russian military response. They also reaffirm their support for the independence and the territori…