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EU-US trade negotiations

Negotiations on an EU-US trade and investment partnership (TTIP) restarted today with a second negotiating round in Brussels. The Greens have called for the talks to be frozen in response to ongoing revelations about surveillance by US secret services of EU governments and citizens. The group is als...
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The BEE2BEES Project

The B2B project just launched at EU level aims at developing an open source tool to follow up bee colony losses. Beekeepers can use this application, either on their smartphone or on a computer, to share information about the status of their bees. Regular reports will make it possible for beekeep...
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Brussels Agenda

Greens/EFA priorities for the week include final conciliation negotiations on the EU's budget framework 2014-20. The Greens/EFA also organise a participatory debate about Poland and its future (in Warsaw) as well as 4 conferences in Brussels on UN climate talks, post-growth society, the Belo-Monte dam and the right to decide: a democratic…
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Announcement Conference on COP 19

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Social funds

The European Parliament's regional development committee today voted to approve a proposal from the Commission on new financial allocations for certain member states under the European Social Fund (ESF) for the current period. The proposal would see additional funds for action on unemployment exclus...
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Paks

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Travel diary - Rebecca Harms, Greens/EFA Co-President's visit to Eastern Europe

What an intense week: Warsaw, Katowice, Prague, Paks and Budapest. Many wonderful encounters, interesting conversations and events. In all three countries I visited during my Central Europe tour (27th to 31st October) I met committed, highly motivated Greens. They are the ones we need in these decis...
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GMO authorisations

The European Commission has today proposed authorising the cultivation of a new variety of genetically modified maize (1507, marketed as Herculex outside the EU) in the EU, which would be first GM maize to be approved in 15 years. The Greens have raised major concerns with the proposed authorisation...
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Lobbying transparency

The Greens have called for the resignation of the chairman of the working group set up to reform the European Parliament's transparency register for lobbyists (1) following revelations that the chairman, EP vice-president Rainer Wieland, is himself engaged in lobbying activities in Brussels. The gro...
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Commission lets GMOs loose

Only a few months before being replaced, it seems that the EU Commission has decided to impose new GMOs on to its citizens who by and large do not want them.Tomorrow, on the 6th November, Commissioner for Health and Consumers, Tonio Borg, will propose 3 devastating measures to his fellow Commissi...