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    Tax avoidance/Greece

    Co-presidents of the Greens/EFA group Rebecca Harms and Dany Cohn-Bendit today wrote to EU Council president Van Rompuy and Commission president Barroso urging swift action on tax evasion in the context of the deteriorating economic situation in Greece (1). The letter calls for the forthcoming EU su...
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    EU budget 2013

    The European Parliament's budget committee voted today on its position for the 2013 EU budget. The Greens welcomed the vote, which counters the position by EU governments in Council to arbitrarily cut the draft budget proposed by the European Commission. Commenting after the vote, Green budgetary sp...
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    Nanomaterials

    The European Commission today presented its 2nd regulatory review on nanomaterials in response to a demand from the European Parliament (1). The Greens criticised the failure to commit to proper EU regulation in spite of clear deficiencies underlined by the European Parliament in reviews of existing...
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    Banking sector reform

    Commenting on the report of the European Commission's high-level group on bank structural reform (the Liikanen report), Green finance spokesperson Philippe Lamberts stated: "This report outlines a number of important proposals that would contribute to the overdue reform of the banking sector. H...
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    Nuclear stress tests

    The final report of the disputed EU nuclear stress tests, proposed by the European Commission in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, is expected to be adopted by the Commission tomorrow. Leaked drafts of the stress tests confirm that large numbers of nuclear reactors in Europe are deficient in ...
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    Financial markets and products (MiFID)

    The EP's economic and monetary affairs committee voted on important legislative proposals on the regulation of the market for financial instruments (MIFID) yesterday evening. While MEPs took tentative steps to strengthening proposals on high frequency trading and commodity speculation, the Greens ar...
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    Georgia

    Zu den aktuellen Straßenprotesten in Georgien, ausgelöst von im Fernsehen gezeigten Beweisen für die vorherrschende Brutalität gegen Insassen georgischer Gefängnisse, erklärt Ulrike Lunacek, außenpolitische Sprecherin der Grünen/EFA-Fraktion und Mitglied der Süd-Kaukasus-Delegation des Euro...
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    EU-China Summit

    On the occasion of the 15th EU-China Summit held in Brussels, Reinhard Bütikofer, vice-president of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, and Helga Trüpel, member of the EU-China delegation of the European Parliament, declare: "Dialogue and cooperation between the world's first and...
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    Fisheries/shark finning

    The Greens welcomed a vote by the European Parliament's fisheries committee today supporting proposed legislation to ban shark finning in principle but regretted the introduction of loopholes (1). The Greens have long supported the outlawing of this odious and wasteful fishing practise and urged MEP...
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    Fisheries

    The European Parliament's fisheries committee today adopted a report setting out its opinion on the external dimension of fisheries policy. After the vote, the EP draftsperson/rapporteur Greens/EFA MEP Isabella Lövin (Sweden) stated: "While the Commission has taken tentative steps to address t...