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Eurozone crisis/Greece

European finance ministers have delayed approval of a new tranche of loans for Greece, insisting that the country pass a new package of austerity measures first. The Greens have hit out at the persistent reliance on austerity and the failure to ensure private creditors take a bigger and compulsory p...
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e-fa News Round-Up May/June 2011

Key issues over the past few weeks included: E-coli outbreak S4C future raised with European Commission EU calls for a new era of social justice Scots political bloggers EFA Group visit to Limburg Food security and price volatility Independence for South Sudan Plight of the Tuareg in the Libyan Con...
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Pregnant Workers Directive

The ConDem UK Government is reported to be amongst a number of EU states trying to block new EU legislation to improve maternity leave. On Friday (17 June) EU ministers meeting in Brussels are set to discuss the Pregnant Workers Directive. The new law was approved by the European Parliament last Oc...
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Freedom of information and public access to documents

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The Greens/EFA and EMAS

Our group has pushed for EMAS policies from the very beginning. There have been a number of successes along the way, but there is still a great deal of work to do. Find out about what we are doing internally, as well as the policies that we continue to push for the European Parliament as a whole to adopt.
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Data protection/PNR

The release of two new legal analyses has raised fresh concerns about the European Commission's approach to the retention of sensitive passenger name records (PNR) from flights. Their release comes just days after EU home affairs ministers expressed their concerns with proposed EU agreements on PNR ...
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Water pollution

The European Parliament environment committee today voted on a proposal to revise EU rules on the use of phosphates in detergents (1). Green MEPs welcomed the outcome, which would extend the proposed ban on phosphates in laundry detergents to dishwashing detergents. After the vote, Green MEP and sha...
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Yvan Colonna

Corsican MEP François Alfonsi has written to all members of the European Parliament to highlight the case of Yvan Colonna and the controversy surrounding his trial. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 2007 for the 1998 murder of Corsican Prefect Claude Erignac, this conviction was overturned last yea...
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Referendum in Italy

A large majority of voters in Italy has voted in a referendum against the use of nuclear energy. Voters could also give their opinion on the privatisation of water utilities and on an amnesty law for the prime minister and its government.
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Croatia

The European Commission today recommended that the accession negotiations with Croatia be concluded by the end of June. Croatia could thus join the European Union on 1 July 2013. Commenting on the Commission's proposal, Franziska Brantner, spokesperson for foreign affairs of the Greens/EFA group, sa...