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SWIFT Agreement

Commenting on the presentation of the new SWIFT agreement by EU home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmström, Greens/EFA expert on home affairs in the European Parliament, Jan Philipp Albrecht, comments:"The European Commission risks another rejection in the European Parliament with its proposal for...
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Regional policy

The European Parliament today adopted a report on transparency in regional policy with 629 votes in favour and 6 against. Commenting on the result of the vote, the rapporteur, Green MEP Michail Tremopoulos, said: "European Parliament today has called for greater transparency in the funding of r...
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Biofuels

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SWIFT-Agreement

After the presentation of the new agreement on the transfer of SWIFT bank data to US authorities, the Green home affairs expert in the European Parliament, Jan Philipp Albrecht, comments: "The new agreement, which is close to being finalized, has serious flaws. It still allows the transfer of m...
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EU economic governance

Today the leaders of the political groups in the European Parliament insisted that the strengthened European economic governance should be based on the "Community method" and not on the intergovernmental one. During a meeting with the chairman of the Eurogroup, Jean-Claude Juncker, they su...
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Bluefin tuna fishery closure

After scarcely a week of fishing, the purse seinebluefin tuna quotas (1) allocated to European fishermen in the Mediterranean have been reached. Maria Damanaki, European Commissioner for Fisheries, acting on behalf of the commission has been compelled to close the fishery to prevent further wea...
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Iran

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Copyright treaty for visually impaired

Tomorrow, Tuesday June 8th, an EU Council working group coordinated by DG Internal Market and the Spanish Presidency will decide the EU position concerning the proposal for a Treaty for the visually impaired (sponsored by Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador and Paraguay) that shall be considered at the World In...
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Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre

4th of June is the 21st anniversary of the brutal repression of the students and workers who occupied Tiananmen Square. What happened that night was a massacre about which very little has been revealed since. All of this information is still a state secret, something intolerable on the eve of important trade agreements between China and t…
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Electrical and electronic equipment

The Environment Committee today sent a clear signal about the dangers of hazardous chemicals used in electrical and electronic equipment during a vote on the recast of the RoHS (1) Directive. Greens/EFA rapporteur Jill Evans commented after the vote: "I am glad that, despite heavy pressure from...