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    Backing for Catalan 'people power'

    MEPs from Corsica, Flanders and Wales will be in Catalonia this weekend to act as observers for the series of local referendums taking place on Catalan independence.A grassroots initiative has used existing powers to organise a series of local referendums at town and municipal level in order to give...
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    Climate change

    A new study by the Ecofys Institute, commissioned by the Greens/EFA group and launched today in European Parliament, has revealed EU's claims to be the leader in international climate policy to be a myth.
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    Human rights - Russia visit

    Speaking ahead of the UN International Day of Human Rights and her visit to Moscow and Ekaterinburg in Russia, Finnish Green MEP and EP human rights chair Heidi Hautala has called for protection and freedom of human rights defenders.
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    MEPs support for hunger striker

    MEPs from the European Free Alliance Group in the European Parliament are supporting the case of Western Saharan activist Aminatou Haidar.  Ms Haidar is currently on hunger strike at Lanzarote airport in the Canary Islands after being forcibly expelled from her homeland by the Moroccan aut...
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    Kosovo

    In its conclusions on the Enlargement and Stabilisation and Association Process, EU foreign affairs ministers at the General Affairs and External Relations Council yesterday stressed that Kosovo should benefit from eventual visa-free travel to the EU. Ulrike Lunacek, Greens/EFA foreign affairs spoke...
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    Copenhagen climate summit

    The Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament will have a strong presence at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. Four Greens/EFA MEPs will be part of the European Parliament's official delegation: President Rebecca Harms (Germany), Satu Hassi ( Finland), Yannick Jadot (France) and Bas Eickhout (Netherlands).
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    Bluefin tuna

    In response to a formal question from Green MEP Raül Romeva, the European Commission has revealed that the EU pays millions of Euros to European fishing fleets that target bluefin tuna.
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    Smith hails progress on green electricity transmission charging

    SNP Member of the European Parliament Alyn Smith has today (Wednesday) hailed a revelation that National Grid experts are working on a new model of transmission charging which could see grid connection costs for renewable operators halved as a major step forward in resolving the thorny issue of loca...
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    EU foreign policy

    Greens have welcomed that Lady Catherine Ashton, the newly appointed high-representative for EU foreign and security policy, came to the EP to face questions. Her willingness to listen must now be followed with a clear vision for EU foreign policy, as well as leadership and action.
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    Financial supervision

    The four coordinators for the EPP, S&D, ALDE and Greens political groups believe that the negotiations of the ECOFIN Council on the micro-supervision of the financial sector are going in the wrong direction.The European Parliament, as co-legislator on this topic, will play its full role in respe...