icon

ADVANCED SEARCH

Press Releases, Opinions, Publications, Events and Videos

Filter
  • Agriculture and Fisheries
  • Climate
  • Culture
  • Transparency and Democracy
  • Economy
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • European Union
  • International
  • Mobility
  • Rights and freedoms
  • Trade
  • Society
    • array(3) { ["url"]=> string(43) "files/layout/img/default_article_header.jpg" ["alt"]=> bool(false) ["copyright"]=> bool(false) }
    Press release |

    Kosovo-Report

    Commenting on the vote today in the Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET) on the Kosovo report, Ulrike Lunacek, Foreign Affairs Spokesperson of the Greens/EFA in the European Parliament and Kosovo-Rapporteur, said:"With a clear majority for my Kosovo-report, the Foreign Affairs Committee has given an imp...
    array(3) { ["url"]=> string(43) "files/layout/img/default_article_header.jpg" ["alt"]=> bool(false) ["copyright"]=> bool(false) }
    Press release |

    European External Action Service

    Commenting on the outcome of yesterday's inter-institutional negotiations on the European External Action Service in Madrid, Franziska Brantner, foreign affairs spokesperson of the Greens/EFA Group, said: "The political agreement reached yesterday is a step in the right direction compared to th...
    array(3) { ["url"]=> string(43) "files/layout/img/default_article_header.jpg" ["alt"]=> bool(false) ["copyright"]=> bool(false) }
    Press release |

    European Council

    While the heads of state had lengthy debates about possible stress-tests for banks, they failed the stress-test themselves: in spite of Merkel and Sarkozy's Berlin statements, a strategy for a Common European Economic Policy is yet to be found. EU heads of state still don't dare to commit to real economic governance and refuse to give mor…
    array(3) { ["url"]=> string(43) "files/layout/img/default_article_header.jpg" ["alt"]=> bool(false) ["copyright"]=> bool(false) }
    Press release |

    Regional policy

    The European Parliament today adopted a report on transparency in regional policy with 629 votes in favour and 6 against. Commenting on the result of the vote, the rapporteur, Green MEP Michail Tremopoulos, said: "European Parliament today has called for greater transparency in the funding of r...
    array(3) { ["url"]=> string(43) "files/layout/img/default_article_header.jpg" ["alt"]=> bool(false) ["copyright"]=> bool(false) }
    Press release |

    EU economic governance

    Today the leaders of the political groups in the European Parliament insisted that the strengthened European economic governance should be based on the "Community method" and not on the intergovernmental one. During a meeting with the chairman of the Eurogroup, Jean-Claude Juncker, they su...
    array(3) { ["url"]=> string(43) "files/layout/img/default_article_header.jpg" ["alt"]=> bool(false) ["copyright"]=> bool(false) }
    Press release |

    EU climate aid

    New revelations that EU member states will fall short of their pledges on climate aid for developing countries have dogged the opening day of the first full UNFCCC negotiating session this year (1), which is taking place in Bonn. Commenting on the revelations, Dutch Green MEP Bas Eickhout said: &quo...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481896477_647e0616f55cc28414b5c2c7ccf9db2f.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481896477) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "647e0616f55cc28414b5c2c7ccf9db2f.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/171/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(56) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/171/list" ["photo"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/171/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(60) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/171/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Publication |

    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...
    array(3) { ["url"]=> string(43) "files/layout/img/default_article_header.jpg" ["alt"]=> bool(false) ["copyright"]=> bool(false) }
    Press release |

    European Asylum Support Office

    The EU Parliament today approved a report (1) by Jean Lambert on the creation of a European Asylum Support Office. The UK Green MEP commented: "I am delighted that the Parliament has now given its final seal of approval for the establishment of the much needed and long awaited European Asylum S...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481896462_8ef30ab321c482919e50a2b87a23a23e.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481896462) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "8ef30ab321c482919e50a2b87a23a23e.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/166/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(56) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/166/list" ["photo"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/166/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(60) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/166/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Event |

    The European Citizens' Initiative

    After the Commission presented its proposal for a regulation, it is now Parliament's turn. We are currently working on the legal specification of this instrument. The hearing aims at gathering inputs from experts and initiatives from the civil society and debating with a view to find the best solution for this right of initiative on the E…
    array(3) { ["url"]=> string(43) "files/layout/img/default_article_header.jpg" ["alt"]=> bool(false) ["copyright"]=> bool(false) }
    Press release |

    EU Financial Supervision