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    EU tax rules

    The European Parliament today adopted its opinion on draft EU legislation on interest and royalty taxation (1). MEPs voted in favour of toughening EU measures with a view to outlawing tax avoidance schemes currently employed by businesses, as well as for effective minimum taxation of cross border ...
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    Air pollution/Sulphur emissions

    The European Parliament today adopted new revised EU legislation aimed at reducing sulphur pollution from ships (1). The final legislative agreement will introduce stricter limits on sulphur emissions from ships for Sulphur Emission Control Areas by 2015 and for all EU seas by 2020. Speaking after t...
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    CIA rendition and illegal detention

    The European Parliament today adopted a report highlighting new evidence of secret detention centres and extraordinary 'renditions' by the CIA in EU member states (1). The report, which comes 5 years after an original special inquiry by the EU Parliament (2), highlights these new abuses - notably re...
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    Energy efficiency

    The European Parliament adopted new EU legislation on energy efficiency and savings. The EP's rapporteur, Green MEP Claude Turmes, called for swift implementation and the reorientation of public policy and funds to ensure these job-creating measures can be delivered.
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    ECB executive board

    The European Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee has halted the appointment process for a new nominee to the executive board of the European Central Bank, after cross-party criticisms about the failure to consider any female candidates for the vacancy. Coordinators of the committee ...
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    Euro crisis/sovereign debt

    Commenting on the announcement by the European Central Bank of its intention to reactivate a scheme to buy governments bonds from Eurozone members in economic difficulty (1), Greens/EFA economic and finance spokesperson Sven Giegold (MEP, Germany) said: “The ECB has been again forced to fill the v...
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    European Parliament seat

    The European Court of Justice's Advocate General today delivered an opinion (1) recommending that the court find against the decision by MEPs to travel only 11 times per year to Strasbourg for plenary sessions instead of 12 (2). The Greens expressed regret at the decision but pointed out that it und...
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    Ukraine

    In view of the now official new allegations against Julia Tymoshenko and the declaration of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office, the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights can under no circumstances lead to release for the former Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko, currently in prison and...
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    Syria

    Commenting on the acute humanitarian crisis in Syria and its neighbouring countries, Greens foreign affairs spokesperson Franziska Brantner (MEP, Germany) said: "The acute humanitarian situation in Syria requires a dramatic response from the international community and the EU. With aid organis...
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    Romanian impeachment referendum

    Commenting on the outcome of the referendum in Romania on the impeachment of President Basescu, which failed due to a below-threshold turnout, Greens/EFA co-presidents Rebecca Harms and Dany Cohn-Bendit said: "After the outcome of this farcical referendum, it is time to draw a line under the po...