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    NSA spying scandal - free trade agreement

      On the eve of the vote on Parliament's resolution on the NSA spying scandal, Greens/EFA Co-Presidents Dany Cohn-Bendit and Rebecca Harms called for a clear signal against opening negotiations with the USA on a free trade agreement:         "The E...
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    Hungary

    The European Parliament today adopted a report by Green MEP Rui Tavares (Portugal) on the situation of fundamental rights in Hungary. The report states that the legal and constitutional changes in Hungary are incompatible with the values of the EU set out in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Unio...
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    EU Emissions Trading System

    The European Parliament today voted on a regulatory proposal aimed at tackling the oversupply of emissions allowances in the EU's emissions trading scheme through postponement of the auctioning of 900 million allowances (ETS 'backloading') (1). This is the second time that the plenary has voted on t...
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    Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020

    The European Parliament today adopted the Council's proposal for the EU budget for 2014-2020 (Multiannual Financial Framework or 'MFF'). The MEPs agreed by a large majority to support a political resolution which binds the European Parliament to the compromise on the MFF that was agreed last week. T...
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    EU Ombudsman

    The European Parliament today voted to elect a new EU Ombudsman (1) for 2013-2018.  Having come joint first in the first round of voting on Tuesday, independent candidate Ms O'Reilly was today overwhelmingly endorsed by MEPs to be the next EU Ombudsman. Ms O'Reilly won out of a field of candida...
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    Spy attacks against the EU

    The recent revelations about the borderless spying activities against so-called friend EU countries and their institutions by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the British secret service must lead to a rapid political response. Rebecca Harms and Dany Cohn-Bendit, Co-Presidents of the Gr...
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    EU summit

    Commenting on the result of the European Summit Dany Cohn-Bendit, Co-President of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament said: "Once again, petty narrow national interests dominated this summit. That the UK will get an even higher rebate is unacceptable. This ongoing bargaining betwee...
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    Treaty for the blind and visually impaired

    Over the last two weeks, World Intellectual Property Organization delegates have been meeting at a diplomatic conference to conclude a treaty to facilitate access to published works by visually impaired people. After years of discussion, an agreement has finally been reached. Commenting on the ag...
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    Multiannual Financial Framework

    The Irish Presidency of the EU Council, the European parliament and the European Commission today agreed on a compromise on the Multiannual Financial Framework for 2014-2020. The Greens/EFA group are critical of the fact that the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, accepted the weak...
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    Resolution of failing banks

    After several months of discussions, the Council agreed this morning on its general approach on the Banking Recovery and Resolution Directive, opening the way to negotiations with the European parliament, which had adopted its own position in May. The objective is to reach a final agreement by the e...