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    Nuclear waste

    The Hungarian authorities are planning to transport damaged nuclear fuel to a Russian reprocessing site, via Ukraine, with no plan for any return (1). The Greens have called on the European Commission to intervene to prevent this. Commenting on the situation, Greens/EFA co-president Rebecca Harms sa...
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    GMO authorisation

    EU environment ministers meeting in Luxembourg today approved proposals for a new scheme for the authorisation of genetically-modified organisms. Commenting on the Environment Council, Green food safety spokesperson Bart Staes said: “The compromise on revising the EU process for GMO authorisation...
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    European Parliament

    The Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament today elected Rebecca Harms and Philippe Lamberts as its co-presidents for the first half of the legislative term (2014-17). Rebecca Harms (Germany) was co-president of the Greens/EFA group in the previous legislative term (2009-14). Philippe Lamberts ...
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    Northern mini-summit

    Commenting on the outcome today of the meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in Sweden, Rebecca Harms, President of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, stated:...
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    G7 summit

    Commenting on the outcome of the G7 summit in Brussels, Greens/EFA president Rebecca Harms said: "The failure to stop arms exports to Russia (notably from France and Germany) will prevent the G7 and the EU from developing any coherent Russia strategy. It is unfathomable that the French governme...
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    G7 summit

    Commenting in the context of the G7 summit in Brussels, Greens/EFA president Rebecca Harms said: "While the G7 leaders are meeting in Brussels, the situation in eastern Ukraine continues to escalate. The G7 cannot stand idly by and accept this deterioration, with its inevitable humanitarian con...
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    Energy security

    Commenting on the proposals by EU energy commissioner Oettinger on energy security, presented today, Greens/EFA co-president Rebecca Harms said: “The crisis in Ukraine has again underlined the need to develop a European strategy to secure our energy supply and reduce our damaging dependence on fo...
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    Commission presidency

    Following the meeting of the European Parliament’s Conference of Presidents of the political groups and ahead of tonight’s meeting of heads of state and government on the election of the European Commission president, Greens/EFA president Rebecca Harms stated: “Presidents of the main political...
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    European election results

    Commenting on the initial published results of the European Parliament elections, Greens/EFA president Rebecca Harms said: "The Greens remain a force to be reckoned with in EU politics based on the results of the European elections. While the composition of EP political groups will only be f...
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    European election night

    When: 25 May from 19.00 Where: European Parliament hemicycle, passerelle (passageway between the PHS and ASP buildings, 3rd floor) and room 4B001 (PHS building) With: Greens/EFA MEPs - Ska Keller, co-leading candidate of the European Green Party, Bas Eickhout, vice-president of the Greens/EFA group,...