Newsroom

PRESS RELEASES

Filter
  • Agriculture and Fisheries
  • Climate
  • Culture
  • Transparency and Democracy
  • Economy
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • European Union
  • International
  • Mobility
  • Rights and freedoms
  • Trade
  • Society
    • Greens/EFA
    EFA
    Pirates
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481901233_2eeac99692e1a6a9cb2243895df7eb35.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481901233) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "2eeac99692e1a6a9cb2243895df7eb35.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2973/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2973/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2973/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2973/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Press release |

    Bee decline/neonicotinoid ban

    Crucial proposals from the European Commission to suspend the use of neonicotinoid insecticides - due to their damaging impact on bee populations - were today upheld after a vote by EU member states. The outcome of the vote (1) in the Comitology Appeal Committee will enable the proposed suspension t...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481901233_d4ea1945a1c77a7920126d9e29f6f6c1.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481901233) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "d4ea1945a1c77a7920126d9e29f6f6c1.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2974/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2974/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2974/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2974/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Press release |

    Bee decline

    Crucial proposals from the European Commission to suspend the use of 3 specific neonicotinoid insecticides - due to their damaging impact on bee populations - are again set to be voted on by EU member states on Monday (29 April), after an inconclusive vote last month (1). There are concerns that key...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481901233_b4daa6716a1a6128f12ce0b5cc860687.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481901233) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "b4daa6716a1a6128f12ce0b5cc860687.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2976/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2976/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2976/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2976/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Press release |

    Chernobyl/EU nuclear funds

    In the context of this Friday's 27th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the Greens have hit out at proposed funding from the European Commission aimed at keeping outdated nuclear reactors in Ukraine online. Commenting on the funding proposals, Greens/EFA co-president Rebecca Harms said: ...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481901234_0ee55f44934dbb1a3574fdc6010558f2.png" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481901234) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "0ee55f44934dbb1a3574fdc6010558f2.png" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2978/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2978/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2978/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2978/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Press release |

    Tax evasion

    The European Parliament's economic affairs committee today adopted a report on tax evasion, setting out its position ahead of next month's EU summit, which will deal with the issue. The Greens have consistently highlighted loopholes in EU legislation and deficiencies in EU tax policy, which facilita...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481901234_ebb65a835f18fd2e332b99631f828a22.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481901234) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "ebb65a835f18fd2e332b99631f828a22.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2979/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2979/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2979/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2979/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Press release |

    Car CO2 emissions/fuel efficiency

    The European Parliament's environment committee today voted on legislative proposals for implementing EU rules on CO2 emissions limits for vehicles for the year 2020 (1). The Greens welcomed the confirmation of the 2020 limit and the call for new EU limits for 2025 but expressed regret that MEPs fai...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481901235_76f0c933d2e691bd471ae4a4b3989de5.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481901235) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "76f0c933d2e691bd471ae4a4b3989de5.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2981/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2981/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2981/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2981/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Press release |

    Passenger data/privacy (PNR)

    The European Parliament's civil liberties committee today voted to reject a proposed EU system to store the private data of airline passengers (PNR), along the lines of a US equivalent. The Greens strongly welcomed the vote, with home affairs and civil liberties spokesperson Jan Philipp Albrecht sta...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481901235_71b2093eb6eeec6586610a0018c14de2.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481901235) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "71b2093eb6eeec6586610a0018c14de2.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2982/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2982/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2982/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2982/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Press release |

    EU fingerprint database

    The European Parliament's civil liberties committee today endorsed a legislative agreement on the EURODAC database of asylum applicants' and refugees' fingerprints (1), which includes controversial proposals to allow law enforcement authorities access to the database. Commenting after the vote, Gree...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481901236_f8473199f76387983239af4180247f61.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481901236) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "f8473199f76387983239af4180247f61.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2984/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2984/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2984/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2984/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Press release |

    Youth unemployment

    The European Parliament's employment and social affairs committee today approved the creation of a new youth funding programme under the European Social Fund: the Youth Employment Initiative. The Greens welcomed the vote, which will make €6 billion available to fund the implementation of the Euro...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481901240_f1a57ca9080f4d05c95abdc3434cfc33.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481901240) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "f1a57ca9080f4d05c95abdc3434cfc33.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2989/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2989/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2989/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2989/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Press release |

    Olaf and Dalli controversy

    Following a debate in the European Parliament's budgetary control committee on the annual report of the supervisory committee of OLAF, the EU's anti-fraud body, Green MEPs Bart Staes, vice-chair of the EP's budgetary control committee, and José Bové, vice-chair of the EP's agriculture committee st...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481901241_2239de8c9570413cc9284765deff88a3.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481901241) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "2239de8c9570413cc9284765deff88a3.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2990/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2990/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2990/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/2990/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Press release |

    Illegal fisheries

    The European Parliament's fisheries committee today approved a new rapid procedure for listing countries not cooperating in the fight against illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing (IUU). This clears the way for the Commission to add additional countries to the current list (1) and to publish t...