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Banking reform

The European Parliament today adopted a report on structural reform of the EU's banking sector. Although the report contains a number of weaknesses, it decisively calls on the Commission to produce legislation aimed at reforming the structure of the EU banking sector. The Commission will be submitti...
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NSA spying scandal - free trade agreement

  On the eve of the vote on Parliament's resolution on the NSA spying scandal, Greens/EFA Co-Presidents Dany Cohn-Bendit and Rebecca Harms called for a clear signal against opening negotiations with the USA on a free trade agreement:         "The E...
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Hungary

The European Parliament today adopted a report by Green MEP Rui Tavares (Portugal) on the situation of fundamental rights in Hungary. The report states that the legal and constitutional changes in Hungary are incompatible with the values of the EU set out in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Unio...
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EU Emissions Trading System

The European Parliament today voted on a regulatory proposal aimed at tackling the oversupply of emissions allowances in the EU's emissions trading scheme through postponement of the auctioning of 900 million allowances (ETS 'backloading') (1). This is the second time that the plenary has voted on t...
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Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020

The European Parliament today adopted the Council's proposal for the EU budget for 2014-2020 (Multiannual Financial Framework or 'MFF'). The MEPs agreed by a large majority to support a political resolution which binds the European Parliament to the compromise on the MFF that was agreed last week. T...
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EU Ombudsman

The European Parliament today voted to elect a new EU Ombudsman (1) for 2013-2018.  Having come joint first in the first round of voting on Tuesday, independent candidate Ms O'Reilly was today overwhelmingly endorsed by MEPs to be the next EU Ombudsman. Ms O'Reilly won out of a field of candida...
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Fundamental rights - standards and practices in Hungary

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Review of the Irish Presidency incl. MFF agreement

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting (27-28 June 2013)

Greens/EFA Co-President Rebecca Harms attacks the backward looking EU Budget proposal that spends more money on agriculture than on youth unemployment. She also calls for the upcoming trade negotiations with the US to be put on hold following the revelations of US NSA spying on the EU.
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Multiannual Financial Framework agreement

on the Review of the Irish Presidency, including the MFF agreement tabled by Rebecca Harms, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Helga Trüpel, Isabelle Durant, François Alfonsi on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group The European Parliament, - having regard to Articles 295, 310, 311, 312 and 323 of the Treaty on the F...