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    EU summit and climate

    Ahead of this week's European Council, Green MEPs have held a press conference calling for EU leaders to step up the ambition of their climate policies. In this context, they have also launched a online communications tool (www.climatecircus.com ) to show how far the climate policies of EU and world leaders are from their rhetoric on clim…
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    Russia

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    Press conference

    Press conference:European climate leadership? The EU summit and Europe's role in the UN climate negotiationsWhen: Tuesday, 27 October, 11.00-11.30Where: Press Room, PHS 0A50, European Parliament, BrusselsWho: Green MEPs Satu Hassi (member of the EP delegation to COP15), Claude Turmes and Caroline Lu...
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    Sakharov Prize

    Today, the European Parliament's Conference of Presidents selected Oleg Orlov, Sergeï Kovalev and Lyudmila Alexeyeva for the institution's 2009 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, in the name of human rights organisation 'Memorial' and all human rights defenders in Russia.
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    European External Action Service

    Regarding today's vote of the European Parliament on the Brok Report on the European External Action Service (EEAS), Indrek Tarand, Greens/EFA shadow rapporteur and Franziska Brantner, Greens/EFA foreign affairs spokesperson, commented:"We welcome the fact that work on the new External Action Serv...
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    Freedom of the press

    A right-wing majority in the European Parliament has succeeded in rejecting tabled resolutions addressing press freedom in Italy and Europe.
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    EU climate policy

    At their Council meeting today, EU environment ministers failed to make progress on the key political issues for the EU negotiating position at the UN climate talks.
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    Guinea - Fisheries

    Yesterday, the European Commission announced that it will withdraw the proposal for a fisheries partnership agreement with Guinea, following the massacre of 28 September in the capital, Conakry. Swedish Green MEP Isabella Lövin, a member of the European Parliament fisheries committee that voted ...
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    Symbolic action on climate change

    A few weeks before the start of the world climate negotiations in Copenhagen, French Green MEPs install an ice sculpture symbolizing a climate refugee in the middle of the central courtyard of the Parliament. This action aims at illustrating the devastating impacts of global warming on humanity and on the planet.
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    EU climate policy

    The EU position for the UN climate negotiations will be discussed by finance and environment ministers at their respective council meetings 20-21 October. Ahead of these crucial meetings, the European Parliament environment committee has adopted a strong resolution on the UN climate negotiations and the EU position.