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    Financial transaction tax

     With an overwhelming majority, the European Parliament today adopted a resolution calling upon the Commission to take steps towards a financial transaction tax.German Green MEP Sven Giegold, member of the EP economic affairs committee, commented:"I am delighted that, for the first time, Parliament...
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    MEP delighted at Goldstone report vote

    Alyn Smith MEP has today (Wednesday) hailed a vote in the European Parliament endorsing the findings and recommendations of the Goldstone Report into human rights violations committed by Israeli forces during Israel's attack on the Gaza Strip last year. The Parliament voted...
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    Swine flu

    Green MEPs and MEPs from other groups today called for a European Parliament inquiry committee to examine the circumstances of the A(H1N1) (swine flu) outbreak and the EU response. Greek Green MEP Michalis Tremopouloscommented:"The exaggerated alarm caused by the swine flu outbreak led governments t...
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    Climate

    The Greens have called for a more unified and coherent European presence in UN climate talks, in response to Commission proposals due to be presented by Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard.
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    Iran

    Following the decision by the German government to accept a certain number of political refugees from Iran, German Green MEP Barbara Lochbihler, Chair of the EU Parliament delegation to Iran, commented: "I warmly welcome the decision of the German government to grant asylum to a number of Iranian ...
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    SNP backs international efforts to save traditional fishing rights

    SNP President Ian Hudghton MEP has (Tuesday) welcomed support from various European governments for the principle of EU nations retaining historical fishing rights according to traditional practices.The governments of Germany, Denmark and Estonia have all given backing to the principle of "rela...
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    International Women's Day

    On 8 March, International Women's Day, Green MEPs Marije Cornelissen and Raül Romeva took the opportunity to comment on the Commission's new "Women's Charter" and call for new measures in the fight for improved gender equality.
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    Amflora potato

    Presidents of the EU Parliament's largest political groups today blocked a Greens/EFA request - supported by the GUE/NGL Group - for a debate on GMOs in next week's plenary session in Strasbourg. The request follows the EU Commission's decision to authorise cultivation of the gen...
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    Europe must act to promote equal language rights

    EU institutions must fulfil obligations to all European languagesThe European Union is failing to protect the rights of millions of speakers of non-official EU languages, according to a group of MEPs who will hold a major conference at the European Parliament in Brussels on Thursday. They say t...
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    EFA representatives met President Van Rompuy

    President of the European Free Alliance (EFA), Ms. Nelly Maes and MEP Jill Evans, President of the EFA Group in the European Parliament, met with the President of the European Council, Mr. Herman Van Rompuy.In the one hour meeting with Mr. Van Rompuy, held Thursday 4 March 2010, Ms. Nelly Maes and M...