A group of MEPs today launched the cross-party appeal "Let's change Europe" criticising current economic and social policies in the EU and calling for a change of course. It's the economic governance package, in particular, that's in the line of fire. It is described as an unprecedented ch...
The European Commission today presented proposals to guarantee access to legal advice EU-wide (1). The proposals come in the context of growing concern about the European arrest warrant, which MEPs will debate with the European Commission later today (2). The Greens welcomed the new proposals on leg...
The European Parliament today adopted a report on credit rating agencies. The Greens welcomed the report as an important step to addressing the damaging dominance and conflict of interests of the three big rating agencies, with a review of EU legislation on ratings agencies foreseen for later this y...
The European Parliament today adopted a report setting out its opinion on the future financing of the EU budget from 2013 on. Greens welcomed the support of MEPs for the establishing of a proper and meaningful 'own resources' system for financing the budget, a long-standing Green priority, as w...
