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    Novel food

    Commenting on today's vote on the Novel Food Regulation in the Environment Committee, Green MEP Martin Häusling said: "The research underlying the study 'Cloned farm animals' (1) concluded that cloning could have adverse health effects. Higher rates of infection, along with diseases and malfor...
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    Covenant of Mayors

    This Tuesday 4th of May EU President Barroso will address more than 500 mayors from all over the EU who will gather in the European Parliament for the so called 'Covenant of Mayors'. This strategic partnership between the EU and local authorities on climate change, sustainable energy and transport w...
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    Industrial emissions

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    Regional policy

    The Committee on Regional Development of the European Parliament voted today on the report "Transparency in regional policy and its funding".of Green MEP Michail Tremopoulos (Greece). Commenting on the result of the vote, MEP Michail Tremopoulos said: "I drafted this report in order t...
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    Working time for lorry drivers

    Commenting on today's vote on the directive for working time for lorry drivers in the European Parliament's Social Affairs and Employment Committee, Green MEP Emilie Turunen (Denmark) said:"Today's vote is a big victory for a more social Europe. It states that we do not distinguish between self-empl...
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    Visa-Liberalisation Bosnia and Albania

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    Columbia

    Commenting on the most recent disclosure that the Colombian secret service DAS  (Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad) tried to influence the EP's Human Rights Committee with illegal measures, Heidi Hautala, President of the Sub-Committee for Human Rights of the European Parliament and &nbs...
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    Greek Financial Crisis

    In a letter to Parliament's President, Jerzy Buzek, the Co-Presidents of the Greens/EFA group, Rebecca Harms and Dany Cohn-Bendit today called for convocation of a top-level meeting on the Greek financial crisis. Harms and Cohn-Bendit proposed a conference of the Presidents of the political groups i...
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    Human Rights in Russia

    The Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament and the European Green Party condemn in the strongest possible terms the raid by police on the offices of the Social-Ecological Union (SEU) in the city of Samara. SEU is oldest and largest environmental organisation in Russia and is one of the country'...
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    Earth Day

    In the week leading to Earth Day (22 April) and six months ahead of the Nagoya Summit, the European Commission just published a puzzling report that opens a new debate on tools to prevent biodiversity loss. The report looks at a "Habitat Banking" system in which financial credits and debts for envir...