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    UN climate talks

    The European Parliament today adopted a resolution on the outcome of the UN climate talks in Copenhagen last December. The resolution includes a call for the EU to improve its negotiating position and to remove question marks over its pledged climate aid. After the vote Finnish Green MEP Satu Hassi ...
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    Child safety on social networking sites

    MEP welcomes EU initiative to better protect children who use the internetSNP President Ian Hudghton MEP has welcomed moves by the European Commission to make social networking sites safer for children who use them. Mr Hudghton commented following the publication of a new EU study which reveale...
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    MEPs oppose closure of Basque newspaper

    Twenty two MEPs from four parliamentary groups have given their support to a declaration which calls for the provisional closure of Basque language newspaper Egunkaria to be lifted. The declaration also calls for the acquittal of those accused and for them to be compensated.It will be seven years on...
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    European Financial Supervisory Architecture

    The European Parliament rapporteurs on the financial supervision package today presented in a joint press conference in Strasbourg their draft reports for a reform of financial supervision at European level. Commenting on European Parliament proposals, Green MEP Sven Giegold, rapporteur for the Euro...
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    Barroso II Commission

    The new College of European Commissioners has been approved by a majority built around Parliament's three biggest political groups. The Greens/EFA Group, who voted against, judged that - as a whole - the proposed Commission lacks the vision and determination that is needed to face up to the current economic, social and environmental crise…
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    Early Scotland visit for new EU Commissioner

    SNP President Ian Hudghton MEP has today (Tuesday) welcomed a commitment from Europe's new Fisheries Commissioner Ms Maria Damanaki to visit Scotland at an early opportunity to witness firsthand Scottish efforts to conserve fish stocks.The European Parliament today voted to approve the new European ...
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    Situation in Ukraine

    Tabled by Rebecca Harms and Werner Schulzon behalf of the Green/EFA Group The European Parliament, – having regard to its previous resolutions on Ukraine, - having regard to the OSCE statement of 18 January 2010 on the outcome of the first round of the Presidential elections, - having regard to the...
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    New EU Commission

    "This is the end of politics. Parliament's three biggest groups seem to be only interested in their backroom deals and sharing out the Commission posts between themselves" declared Greens/EFA Co-Presidents Rebecca Harms and Dany Cohn-Bendit.
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    Bank data transfer:

    After today's vote in the EP civil liberties committee, which today recommended rejection of the EU agreement to transfer of SWIFT bank data to the United States, Greens/EFA home affairs expert Jan Philipp Albrecht said:"The EU Parliament's civil liberties committee vote has sent a clear signal in f...
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    EU Commission

    At the meeting of the EP Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community on the 4 February 2010 the chief negotiator of the Commission, responsible for the free trade agreement between the EU and Colombia and Peru, refused to provide further information to MEPs (1). German Green ...