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    EU telecoms legislation

    The European Parliament has today approved a compromise agreement on telecoms legislation that its negotiators reached with the EU Council. The major sticking point had been on the protection of internet users' rights in the face of severe and fast-track copyright enforcement measures that are envisaged in some EU Member States.
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    EU budget 2010

    Commenting on yesterday's conciliation meeting on the EU budget, German Green MEP Helga Trüpel, member of the European Parliament budget committee, said:"The Greens welcome the compromise reached on the EU 2010 budget. Thanks to a one third contribution by the European parliament and two thirds co...
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    EU summit

    The Greens/EFA Group Co-Presidents react to EU leaders' decision to nominate Belgian PM Herman van Rompuy as the first EU Council President and Commissioner Catherine Ashton as EU high representative for foreign and security policy.
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    Energy efficient buildings

    A political agreement has been reached on rules for "nearly zero energy" buildings after 2018 for new public buildings and after 2020 for other new buildings. But Council rejected calls to fund a new programme that would have boosted renovation of existing buildings, reduced CO2 emissions and created new jobs.
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    EU top jobs

    MEPs from five of the European Parliament's political groups hold a press conference to call upon EU heads of state and government to nominate more women candidates for the new European Commission and EU top jobs. So far only three of the 27 Member States have confirmed they will nominate a woman for a European Commission post.
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    Energy efficiency labelling

    An agreement was reached in the final "trialogue" discussion on energy efficiency labelling that took place this afternoon between the EU Parliament, EU Commission and EU Council. This will revise the rules on the well-known A-G labelling scale that already applies to certain domestic appliances. If...
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    Bluefin tuna

    After nine days of backroom negotiations, the EU put forward a fishing quota proposal for bluefin tuna that is set to continue its slide towards extinction. Greens/EFA Vice-President Raül Romeva commented from the meeting in Recife.
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    Kosovo

    Kosovo's first local elections as an independent state were a democratic success.
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    EU-US bank data agreement

    The Swedish Presidency of the EU has been negotiating an EU-US agreement on sharing 'SWIFT' bank transfer information, due to be concluded on 30 November, the day before the Lisbon Treaty is expected to be ratified. German Green MEP Jan-Philipp Albrecht, a member of the European Parliament's civil...
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    EU-Russia

    The European Union must not stand back and allow its cooperation with Russia to be based on pure pragmatism. Instead, the EU must firmly insist that the independence of the Russian judiciary is respected and call for the strengthening of democracy, freedom of speech and human rights.