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EU Commission

At the meeting of the EP Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community on the 4 February 2010 the chief negotiator of the Commission, responsible for the free trade agreement between the EU and Colombia and Peru, refused to provide further information to MEPs (1). German Green ...
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Presidential elections in Ukraine

Rebecca Harms, Co-President of the Greens/EFA group, will go to Ukraine between 5 and 8 February to observe the second round of presidential elections. Harms is the Greens/EFA representative in a delegation of eight MEPs.The second round of the presidential elections is due to take place on 7...
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Humanitarian Aid Commissioner hearing

Following the withdrawal of Rumiana Jeleva as the Commissioner-designate for international cooperation, humanitarian aid and crisis response, her replacement Kristalina Georgieva participated this afternoon in a hearing at the EU Parliament development committee.
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New Entrants Reserve

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Barroso II Commission

Greens/EFA reiterate that the procedure for nomination and election of the Commissioners remains unsatisfactory and plead for a new procedure. They believe that the incoming Commission must be measured against the challenges of overcoming this triple crisis, as well as defining the role of the EU on global level and they regret that Presi…
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Outcome of the Copenhagen Conference Summit on Climate Change (COP 15)

Tabled by Rebecca Harms, Satu Hassi, Bas Eickhout and Yannick Jadoton behalf of the Greens/EFA Group The European Parliament, – having regard to its previous resolutions relating to climate change, and in particular the one adopted 25 November b on EU strategy for Copenhagen Climate Conference, – ...
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Haiti

Greens/EFA call on the High Representative of the EU to put in place a European civil protection force to guarantee EU's humanitarian aid more effective and better coordinated. They also call for an immediate cancellation of all Haiti's outstanding debts and stress that any emergency earthquake assistance is provided in the form of grants…
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Honduras

Today the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee and Central American Delegation held a joint meeting on the subject of Panama and Honduras. Green MEP Raül Romeva, a member of the EP Delegation to Central America, commented:"Today's meeting in the European Parliament represents a clear ma...
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Illicit tobacco trade

Today Belgian Green MEP Bart Staes hosts a conference on the illegal tobacco trade (1), ahead of a crucial UN meeting in March (2) that could secure a binding international agreement to combat this huge worldwide problem. Illicit tobacco is estimated to represent 12% of the global market.Calling on...
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Russia - human rights

Following the arrest of Lyudmila Alexeyeva on New Year's Day, Oleg Orlov - a fellow laureate of last year's EU parliament Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, was yesterday arrested and detained. Finnish Green MEP Heidi Hautala, Chair of the EU Parliament human rights subcommittee, said:"The arres...