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Banking sector reform

The European Commission today presented proposals on structural reform of the EU's banking sector. The Greens expressed regret that this crucial and long-awaited legislation will fall short of providing for a full separation of retail and investment banking activities. Commenting on the proposals, G...
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Seed market regulation

The Greens/EFA group today presented a new study highlighting the concentration of the European seed market (1). In contrast with claims by the European Commission that market concentration is not a problem, the study revealed five companies (also producing agrochemical products) control more than 5...
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Concentration of market power in the EU seed market

Is the EU seed market really as diversified as the European Commission wants lawmakers and the general public to believe? Or is this market in fact transforming rapidly from a seed sector with a large number of competing small firms and farmers into an oligopoly, increasingly dominated by a small number of transnational agro-chemical-se…
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EU-Russia relations

Commenting on today's EU-Russia summit, Green foreign policy spokesperson Werner Schulz said: "Today's summit is totally overshadowed by the crisis in Ukraine and the role of Russian president Putin in the crisis. The Winter Games in Sochi will also be taking place in the shadow of the Ukrainia...
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Vandana Shiva

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Public Eye Awards 2014

The Public Eye Awards call on people all over the world to choose the worst case of offences against the environment and human rights Once again this year, the Berne Declaration (BD) and Greenpeace presented the awards. Just behind the winner Gazprom, Syngenta, Bayer and BASF, companies producing am...
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EU systemic banks capture huge amount of implicit subsidies

According to the study, the best estimate of subsidies amounts to 233.9 billion euro. The study shows that that without these implicit subsidies the large banking institutions in the EU would be making substantial losses. Furthermore, it compares the orders of magnitude of implicit subsidies with the upcoming capital charges and levies …
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Environmental policy in the European Semester: assessing progress to date

This Greens/EFA study draws a critical analysis of environmental policy in the current European Semester and discusses avenues for greening the EU semester process.
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Brussels Agenda

Greens/EFA priorities for the week include Europe's banking sector, F-gases' climate damage, emissions trading, pollution from shipping, airline emissions, data protection and Europol. Greens/EFA events will deal with human trafficking and smuggling, seed diversity, food security and the role of industry, greening regional policy, LGBT ri…
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UE -Turquie: Un dialogue utile mais qui n'a pas convaincu