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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...
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    ACTA

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    Interim IMF report for G20

    Commenting on yesterday's leaked International Monetary Fund (IMF)  interim report (1) for the G-20 "A fair and substantial contribution by the financial sector", Sven Giegold, spokesman for economy and monetary affairs of the Greens/EFA says:"We welcome the IMF's proposal that the financial sector...
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    Nuclear energy

    Today the Finnish government decided to propose approvals for two new nuclear power reactors. The decision follows continuous technical and financial problems in the Olkiluoto 3 reactor which is still under construction. The Greens/EFA group in the European parliament support the Finnish Greens in their ongoing campaign against any new nu…
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    Air Traffic Chaos

    With regards to the impact of the volcanic eruption in Iceland on the transport in Europe, Michael Cramer and Eva Lichtenberger, spokespersons on transport for the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, state:"Mobility in Europe has changed drastically in the past six days. This time, the...