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Food security and GMOs

Regarding the world food crisis GMOs will create more problems than offering solutionsAgainst the background of the worldwide food crisis, the speakers agreed that GMOs with their claim of being "inventions" for a new "green" revolution and able to solve hunger rather constitute a major threat to ag...
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State of affairs: EU Commission Energy/Climate package

The second session focused on the EU's climate and energy package of legislation. Coming just three days after key votes in the European Parliament on three of the main legislative proposals, it provided a good opportunity to discuss the state of affairs with the French presidency, which was represe...
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EU policy: human rights or economic cynicism ?

Daniel Cohn-Bendit, co-president of the Greens Group in the European Parliament, opened the debate describing Europe as at the crossroads of crises and the right political space to address them. How, with Russia and China particularly in mind, can the French EU presidency help to reconcile human rig...
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International climate talks

Danish climate minister Connie Hedegaard outlined the state of play in the international climate negotiations to the EP Climate Change committee. Despite slow progress, she gave an upbeat assessment but stressed the importance of a timely EU agreement on a strong Climate Package.
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Situation in Belarus

The Greens stress that serious concerns remain with regard to fundamental rights of freedom of assembly and expression, and access by voters to a plurality of views; Point out that, while the EU has welcomed the recent release of several democratic opposition activists and nurtured hopes for an improvement in organisation of arrangements …
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Climate campaign newsletter

Its crunch time for the climate package of EU legislation with key votes in the European Parliament, deals being negotiated in the Council and intense lobbying from industry. This issue looks at this progress, as well as summing-up other climate news.
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Written declaration on the use of open source software

WRITTEN DECLARATION 0046/2008pursuant to Rule 116 of the Rules of ProcedureLapse date: 25.9.2008The European Parliament,– having regard to Rule 116 of its Rules of Procedure,A. having regard to the growing disparities in access to information and communication technologies in the European Union, re...
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Plenary FLASH - September II 2008

New legislation needed to regulate the financial sectorRasmussen report (Monday)Hedge funds and private equity investments lack transparency and are geared towards making short-term gains. These characteristics and the tendency of hedge funds to explore market imperfections create systematic risk i...
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Albino killings in Tanzania

The Greens/EFA Group strongly condemns the killings of the albinos in Tanzania and calls on the Commission to actively support the Albino Association of Tanzania and their call on academics, religious leaders and human rights activists to make members of the public aware that the killing of albinos is socially and morally unjustified.
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Death penalty in Iran

The Greens/EFA Group is profoundly saddened over the recent execution of several juvenile offenders in Iran, making Iran the only country in the world where this grave violation of international standards of law is still practiced; Strongly condemns the persecution and imprisonment of Iranian citizens in Iran who engage in the defence of …