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    Photo by James Baltz on Unsplash
    Photo by James Baltz on Unsplash
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    Greens/EFA call for a new strong pesticides reduction proposal

    Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the withdrawal of the Sustainable use of Pesticides Regulation (SUR). The Greens/EFA call for a new strong proposal and will be pushing to see this proposal back on the agenda ahead of the elections.
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    Deregulation threatens ecology and the organic sector

    Members of the European Parliament will vote on new genetic engineering of plants. The agricultural industry is calling for the legislative proposal because of its alleged benefits, however, genetically modified plants are associated with a number of uncertainties and risks and could jeopardise biodiversity, our health, freedom of choice …
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    EU 2040 climate target: Green/EFA push for phasing out all fossil fuels to make the EU climate neutral by 2040

    The Commission presented their proposed 2040 climate target for the EU. It includes a 90 percent reduction in net greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2040. The Greens/EFA Group is calling for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions reduction by the year 2040. The Commission is expected to present draft legislation at a later stage.
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    Greens/EFA welcome agreement on 50 billion aid package for Ukraine and call for revoking Viktor Orbán's voting rights

    EU leaders have just got their act together and understood that Orbán only reacts to pressure. The good news is that the financial aid Ukraine so urgently needs will finally be paid out, and the country will be able to continue its fight against Russian aggression.
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    Greek MEP Petros Kokkalis joins Greens/EFA Group from The Left

    Greens/EFA Group wholeheartedly welcomed MEP Petros Kokkalis to the Group. He is the new Greens/EFA Group MEP in Greece. “Today, together with the Greens/EFA Group, we have the opportunity to play our part for a greener, safer Europe. We owe it to our youth and to the future of Greece to take bold action and build a more sustainable world…
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    Stop the EU-Mercosur Trade Deal

    Our Group has been opposing the EU-MERCOSUR dinosaur agreement as it goes against the European general interest but also the European Green Deal which has not even entered into force yet. It does not even respond to the challenges faced by the population of the four Latin American countries
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    EU’s vast public investment gap will kill climate ambitions & weaken standing on global stage

    Today, the Greens/EFA Group have launched unprecedented new research into how the green transition is being undermined by a lack of public investment. The study, The Road to Net Zero: Bridging the Green Investment Gap, commissioned by the Group and carried out by the Institut Rousseau, finds that an additional €10 trillion investment is n…
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    Greens/EFA call for protection of our seas and marine life

    Today, at the initiative of the Greens/EFA, MEPs will debate the recent ecological disaster off the coast of Galicia. The Greens/EFA Group call for urgent measures to be taken to mitigate the impact on the environment and the marine fauna, for the inclusion of Maritime Transport on the Proposal for a Regulation on preventing Pellet Losses…
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    MEPs calls for hate speech and hate crimes to be criminalised across the EU

    Today, Members of the European Parliament voted in favour of adding hate crimes and hate speech to the list of EU crimes. The EU list of crimes in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union consists of offences that are considered particularly serious and have a cross-border element. The Parliament calls on the Council to add ser…
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    Parliament to vote on taking Commission to court over funds to autocratic Hungary

    Tomorrow, the Parliament will vote on whether to refer the Commission to the European Court of Justice for releasing previously frozen funds to Hungary. The Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) will prepare to sue the European Commission.