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    (Trans)Gender Equality?

    This joint conference will explore how transgender people's rights fit within wider EU gender equality legislation. It will raise awareness about the legal and social situation of transgender people, as well as the role of European institutions in defending transgender people's fundamental rights.
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    (Trans)Gender Equality?

    This joint conference will explore how transgender people's rights fit within wider EU gender equality legislation. It will raise awareness about the legal and social situation of transgender people, as well as the role of European institutions in defending transgender people's fundamental rights.
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    Climate change and working time

    The seminar aims at assessing the possible impact of working time on climate change. Would shorter work time reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Do working hours have a role in reducing carbon footprints? Those are questions that will be raised during the seminar.
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    International Criminal Court

    Commenting on reports, that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will travel to Kenya today, Heidi Hautala, President of the Sub-Committee for Human Rights of the European Parliament, said: "According to information I have received, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will be travelling to Kenya tod...
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    Recruitment of new EU ambassadors

    Commenting on media reports that EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton intends to appoint hardly any women and Eastern Europeans as EU ambassadors, Franziska Brantner, foreign affairs spokesperson of the Greens/EFA Group, said:"Ms Ashton's first staffing decisions could hardly be worse: not even ...
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    European electricity interconnection

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    Stress test

    Commenting on the disclosure of the stress tests of the EU banking system, Sven Giegold, coordinator of the Greens/EFA in the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the EU Parliament said: "As the purpose of the stress test exercise is to increase transparency and bolster confidence, we hav...
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    Kosovo ruling of the ICJ

    Commenting on today's ruling of the International Court of Justice on the legality of Kosovo's secession from Serbia, Ulrike Lunacek (Austria) Greens/EFA Foreign Affairs Spokesperson and Rapporteur of the European Parliament for Kosovo, said: "The Advisory Opinion of the International Court of ...
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    MEPs welcome Kosovo ruling

    MEPs from the EFA Group in the European Parliament have welcomed today's International Court of Justice  ruling confirming the legality of Kosovo's 2008 independence declaration.Scottish National Party MEP Alyn Smith commented:"While this decision alone is not determinative of the actual i...
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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.