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Belarus OUT (Photo by Leonid Shcheglov / BELTA / AFP)
A picture taken on November 8, 2021 shows migrants at the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region.
Press release |

Commission plans tantamount to accepting pushbacks

The European Commission has just announced that it will allow Poland, Lithuania and Latvia to ‘re-direct’ asylum seekers to a formal border crossing point, where they can be detained for up to 20 weeks. The proposal implicitly endorses the current practice of pushbacks at the borders with Belarus, which brings asylum seekers, including fa…
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Change the industrial farming system

Cruel animal transports are a result of bad political choices. They don't have to happen. Our current industrial farming system is bad for citizens, for the environment and for animals. It makes animals suffer. It destroys land and water. It Increases greenhouse gas emissions and bankrupts small farmers. No one else profits from it than t…
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© European Union 2017 - Source : EP
European Parliament
News |

Debriefing of the November plenary session

Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary week included the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), 2022 budgetary procedure, the outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow, the critical materials INI report, taxonomy, condemning Police Violence against Romani people, the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Belarus debate and address by Sviatlana Tsikhanousk…
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Video |

This Black Friday, help us ban ads exploiting personal data!

On Black Friday, online platforms are pushing ads in front of your eyes more than ever. Companies track and monitor everything you watch, click and like online and manipulate you into giving your data. This data is combined and analysed to figure out who you are, what you're interested in or worried about… and then to advertise certain pr…
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GreensEFA
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Signal for help - We need a law against gender-based violence now!

This year the signal for help for victims of violence went viral on TikTok, saving at least one kidnapped girl’s life. It has become a universal signal as a call for help and to escape gender-based violence. But we cannot rely on hand signals to save young girls and women from violence against them.
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Press release |

Government must halt attacks on ‘Memorial’ & civil society

Memorial, one of the most prominent Russian human rights organisations, and a former Sakharov Prize laureate, is facing threats of being dismantled by the Russian courts. The action by prosecutors is based on allegations that Memorial has failed to comply with requirements of the controversial law on ‘foreign agents’, legislation that sti…
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Greens/EFA
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya meeting the Greens/EFA in Strasbourg
Press release |

EU must stand in solidarity against Belarusian regime

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the leader of the democratic opposition in Belarus will address Members of the European Parliament. The Greens/EFA Group are calling for the EU’s unequivocal support for the democratic opposition and independent civil society in Belarus. The Greens/EFA Group condem the instrumentalisation of refugees and migrants…
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Press release |

EU Industry must play its part in tackling climate change

MEPs have today debated the outcome of the COP26 conference on climate change that took place recently in Glasgow. EFA MEP Piernicola Pedicini spoke in the debate where European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans was also present.   Pedicini called for the EU to ensure that ind...
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Mostar Bridge
Press release |

EU has responsibility to support peace in Bosnia & Western Balkans

MEPs will debate the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the request of the Greens/EFA Group, following the recent worrying political developments in the country. The Greens/EFA Group are calling for the EU to take the lead in finding a political solution to the current crisis. Any political agreement must not further deepen ethnic di…
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Press release |

No green light from Greens/EFA - CAP reform is set to again fail farmers, climate & environment

The majority of MEPs voted in favour of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for 2023-2027. Rather than using this next CAP period, and one third of the EU budget, to help solve the climate and environment emergency, or the loss of thousands of farmers per day, the final agreement repackages the status quo and falls short of the promises …