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    Energy infrastructure

    MEPs in the EU Parliament plenary voted today on Member States' responsibilities to notify the Commission on energy infrastructure projects. Parliament insisted on its co-decision rights with Council under the terms of the Lisbon Treaty and demanded several transparency measures, falling short, howe...
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    Parental leave

    A majority of MEPs in the European Parliament committee for women's rights and gender equality have voted in favour of a legislative report that sets a minimum threshold of fully paid maternity leave of 20 weeks, with additional paternity leave (also at full pay) of at least 2 weeks.
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    Bluefin tuna

    European Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki and Environment Commissioner Janez Potocnik today announced European Commission support for Appendix 1 listing of bluefin tuna in CITES (1), albeit with a delay and under certain conditions. The joint statement of the new Commissioners marks an end to t...
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    UN Climate talks

    Commenting on the resignation of Yvo de Boer as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as from 1 July, Rebecca Harms, President of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament said:"The Greens regret the decision of Yvo de Boer to step down as Executive S...
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    2nd anniversary of Kosovo's independence

    Commenting on the second anniversary of the declaration of independence of Kosovo, Ulrike Lunacek, rapporteur of the European parliament on Kosovo and foreign affairs spokesperson for the Greens/EFA group today said:"Two years after the declaration of Kosovo's independence, it is high time to focus ...
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    Greece

    Commenting on the result of today's meeting of the EU finance and economy ministers on the Greek budget crisis, Rebecca Harms and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Co-Presidents of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament today said:"We welcome that the EU's finance ministers today made clear that the EU w...
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    Eutelsat - censorship

    EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CROSS-PARTY PRESS RELEASEWe, the undersigned, are gravely concerned about news that Eutelsat, the leading European satellite operator – partly funded by French public funds – has, under pressure from Russia, refused to broadcast the Georgian channel in Russian language, Perviy...
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    SWIFT data transfers

    The Greens have welcomed Parliament's decision to reject an interim agreement for the EU to supply bank transfer data to the US.
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    Bluefin tuna

    European Parliament bluefin tuna rapporteur Raül Romeva has welcomed the instiution's resolution calling for a ban in the international trade of this species. A decision on whether to list bluefin tuna will be made at a CITES meeting in March.
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    UN climate talks

    The European Parliament today adopted a resolution on the outcome of the UN climate talks in Copenhagen last December. The resolution includes a call for the EU to improve its negotiating position and to remove question marks over its pledged climate aid. After the vote Finnish Green MEP Satu Hassi ...