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    EFA MEPS POINT OUT OPPORTUNITIES IN EU-CUBA RELATIONS AFTER THE VISIT OF HIGH REPRESENTATIVE TO THE ISLAND

    EFA President Jordi Solé and MEP Ana Miranda intervened in the plenary to express their concern about the situation taking place in Cuba and to welcome the future opportunities that the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and the island offers.
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    Jordi Solé speaks out against the new Migration pack.

    EFA Group President, Jordi Solé intervened in plenary to explain his concerns regarding the new European Migration Pack and the worrying policies presented.
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    Breakthrough for regulating AI and banning discriminatory technologies

    Members of the European Parliament have just voted on the world’s first law regulating Artificial Intelligence. This will determine the Parliament’s position for the trilogue, which is due to start this evening. Thanks to the Greens/EFA Group, the AI Act will include safeguards on environmental standards and fundamental rights .
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    Wild flowers
    Press release |

    Greens/EFA Group calls on EPP to stop blocking key law to support nature

    On Thursday 15 June, the Environment Committee is expected to vote on the European Parliament negotiation mandate for the Nature Restoration Law. The Greens/EFA Group calls on ENVI MEPs, including all those in EPP and RE, to vote in favour of the compromise reached and to vote against the rejection amendment.
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    EFA MEPS celebrate the work of the PEGA Comittee and urges EU institutions to regulate the use of Spyware

    Today, EFA Group President, Jordi Solé, and MEP Diana Riba Vice-President of the PEGA Committee intervened in plenary to celebrate the work that the Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware has done.
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    European Sustainable Tech Day

    This event aims at exchanging best practices when it comes to greening our tech and encouraging the organization of a European Sustainable Tech Day to stimulate and spread initiatives on how best to use sustainable technologies.
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    Press release |

    Plenary debate on the Humanitarian and environmental consequences of the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam

    At the request of the Greens/EFA Group, the humanitarian and environmental consequences of the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam has been added to the joint debate on Ukraine, taking place this morning in the European Parliament. Quote from Heidi Hautala MEP.
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    Parliament reiterates support for the protection and rights of minorities

    The European Parliament has adopted the report on the implementation of the Europeans Citizens' Initiative (ECI), which includes proposals to further support the organizers ECIs and to increase the visibility of this unique participatory instrument.
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    Letter |

    Statement on healthcare worker shortages

    Ahead of the next meeting of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (12-13 June 2023), Greens/EFA MEPs and green national MPs have issued a statement demanding coordinated action from European government in order to tackle the alarming shortage of healthcare personnel in the EU.
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    Plenary Flash 12-15 June 2023

    On the agenda this week: nature restoration law, water crisis, batteries and waste batteries, Artificial Intelligence Act, Pegasus spyware, food security, destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam, Pandora papers