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Renewables

A groundbreaking study on renewable energy in Europe, launched today by the European Climate Foundation, has revealed the potential for 100% renewables by 2050 and dispelled myths including the supposed added costs and reliability of renewable energy.
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Statutes of the Greens/EFA Group

CHAPTER I CONSTITUTION OF THE GROUP 1.1 The Parliamentary Group was constituted on 19 July 1989, under the name ‘The Green Group in the European Parliament’, in accordance with the provisions of its Rules of Procedure and the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament. The decla...
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Brussels Agenda

Greens/EFA events next week include a debate with civil society and Commission representatives on the forthcoming European External Action Service and a conference on on authors' intellectual property rights in the digital context. See the Agenda for a full listing.
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European Asylum Support Office

The EU Parliament civil liberties committee today approved a report (1) by Jean Lambert on the creation of a European Asylum Support Office. The report will now go to a plenary vote, expected to take place in Parliament's Strasbourg session 19-22 April. The UK Green MEP commented:"I am delighted ...
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New Entrants Reserve

The Greens have called on the European Commission to keep its promises on the New Entrants Reserve, worth a total of billions of Euro to trial new technologies to reduce emissions from power production. The risk is that costly CCS projects will dominate at the expense of cost-effective renewables proposals.
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New Entrants Reserve

The Commission's proposals for the New Entrants Reserve (1) have consistently left the door open for the bulk of credits to be assigned to costly carbon capture and storage (CCS) over renewables projects, which are also eligible.Luxembourg Green MEP Claude Turmes and Dutch Green MEP Bas Eickhout com...
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Citizens' Initiative

The European Commission has just presented the "Citizens' Initiative", an important tool for participative democracy that gives the right to a million Europeans to invite the Commission to propose legislation in a particular field.For the Greens, the Commission's proposal is useful, but it is still too cautious and not close enough to cit…
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UE/ACP et situation à Madagascar

Réagissant dans le cadre de la 19e session de l'Assemblée parlementaire paritaire ACP-UE à Ténériffe (Espagne) du 27 mars au 1er avril. Michèle RIVASI, eurodéputée du Groupe des Verts/ALE a estimé que:"Les pays membres de l'Union européenne doivent agir pour contraindre M. Rajoelina à...
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Spanish government must fulfil agreements for use of Catalan

* Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya MEP Oriol Junqueras has put forward a block of 17 parliamentary questions to the European Council, Commission, Parliament and Ombudsman regarding the Spanish Government's non-compliance in the use of Catalan at EU level;* Junqueras: 'Once again the Zapatero Govern...
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Child Abuse

The Greens/EFA home affairs expert in the European Parliament, Jan Philipp Albrecht, comments on the censorship plan by EU home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmström to filter websites:"Commission and council must abandon their plans for an EU internet censorship directive. Filtering certain ...