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    Sakharov Prize

    The winner of the 2011 Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought was today decided at the EP conference of presidents (1). The 2011 prize has been awarded to a group activists representative of the Arab Spring: Asmaa Mahfouz (Egypt), Ahmed al-al-Sanusi Zubair Ahmed (Libya), Razan Zaitouneh (Syria), Ali ...
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    Corporate tax

    The European Parliament today adopted by a large cross-party majority a report by Green draftsman Sven Giegold on a recast of the legislation governing the taxation of distributions from subsidiaries to parent companies (1). The legislation aims to prevent the double (or multiple) taxation of profit...
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    EU budget 2012

    The European Parliament today adopted its position on the EU's 2012 budget, under which an increase of 5.3% is foreseen (1). Given the increased competences of the EU, the Greens are not opposed to an overall budget increase per se, but the group has problems with a number of the budget lines and he...
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    Tax agreements

    EU tax commissioner Semeta highlighted major flaws with the bilateral tax agreements concluded by the UK and Germany with Switzerland at a debate in the European Parliament last night (1). The Greens welcomed his response to an oral question - which underlined problems with the applicable rates of w...
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    Country-by-country reporting

    The European Commission today set out proposals to revise EU rules on accounting and transparency (1). The Greens welcomed the proposals as a first step to improving transparency on the payments and accountability of large corporations but regretted that the Commission did not go further both in ter...
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    Smart borders

    The European Commission today adopted 'smart borders' proposals, which aim to promote new electronic technologies for external border control, along the lines of the US system, including a biometric registration programme. The Greens criticised the proposals as excessive both in terms of oversight a...
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    Public procurement

    The European Parliament today adopted a report on modernisining public procurement, setting out proposals for revising EU rules on public contracts, drafted by Green MEP Heide Rühle. After the vote, Heide Rühle said: "Public procurement procedures should ensure no unnecessary costs are borne...
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    Eurozone summit

    Commenting on the open-ended outcome of this weekend's EU and Eurozone summit, Greens/EFA co-president Rebecca Harms said: "The most important lesson of this latest crisis summit with no definitive outcome must be that the EU needs to finally commit to a proper common economic policy. This endl...
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    Gaddafi death

    Commenting on the reported death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Green foreign policy spokesperson Franziska Brantner said: "Libya must now move on and begin a true process of reconciliation and rebuilding, leaving revenge behind. While it clearly would have been preferable if Gaddafi...
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    Eurozone crisis

    EU and Eurozone heads of state are set to meet this weekend with expectations high that the summit will deliver a comprehensive set of solutions to the ongoing Eurozone crisis. Ahead of the summit, the Greens outlined their priorities for the comprehensive package of solutions that urgently needs to...