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    Data surveillance
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    Pegasus: Greens/EFA call for inquiry committee

    The Pegasus scandal reveals nothing less than the illegal and abusive use of cyber-surveillance weapons against our fellow citizens. This is why we are calling for an inquiry committee to expose the extent of these illegal hacking practices. Starting with establishing which European countries use Pegasus or similar spyware.
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    Oil platform
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    Greens/EFA, NGOs and associations file a legal appeal against Italian oil company ENI’s harmful business plan

    A group of Italian environmental organisations, movements and groups, supported by the Greens/EFA group and Europa Verde, submitted a legal appeal to the National Contact Point of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) denouncing the inadequacy of the industrial plan of the Italian oil company ENI with respect t…
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    Commission proposal to label gas & nuclear as sustainable tantamount to greenwashing

    The European Commission published its final draft of the Delegated Act to the EU Taxonomy Regulation, which seeks to list gas and nuclear projects as potential sustainable investments. The Delegated Act is supposed to classify which financial investments may be labelled as sustainable. The Greens/EFA Group strongly objects to the inclusio…
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    Large investors playing monopoly with Europe’s homes

    New data published by the Greens/EFA Group reveals the amount of housing being bought up and controlled as investment assets by large firms across Europe. The study 'My home is an asset class: The Financialization of Housing in Europe' shows how investors, facilitated under the capital markets union, are rapidly buying up significant amou…
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    Photo by Christopher Burns on Unsplash
    Photo by Christopher Burns on Unsplash
    Press release |

    European Parliament votes on constitution for the internet

    The European Parliament voted to determine its position on the Digital Services Act (DSA), after which the trilogue negotiations with the European Commission and Council will begin. The Greens/EFA have long campaigned for a fairer internet with less power in the hands of tech giants. The DSA is the EU’s answer to the fact that a few large…
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    Hong Kong Street at night
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    Fundamental rights must be protected in Hong Kong

    MEPs are voting on a resolution on the violation of fundamental rights in Hong Kong. MEPs are calling for the release of political prisoners, a free press, sanctions against Hong Kong's political leadership and a review of the city's status in the World Trade Organisation. Since the National Security Law came into force, more than 150 rep…
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    This is our chance to limit animal transport

    MEPs will vote on the recommendations of the Special Inquiry Committee for Animal Transport, which was launched on the initiative of the Greens/EFA group. The recommendations will be the basis for the Commission’s new legislation on transporting animals in the EU. The Greens/EFA group have pushed for high standards, including a maximum jo…
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    @david-leveque
    Parlement européen - Strasbourg FRANCE
    Press release |

    Greens/EFA MEP Heidi Hautala re-elected as Vice President and Marcel Kolaja elected as Quaestor

    The European Parliament re-elected Heidi Hautala MEP, as Vice President of the European Parliament, and Marcel Kolaja, Pirate Party MEP and Greens/EFA member, as Quaestor.
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    Greens/EFA congratulate Roberta Metsola & offer constructive cooperation

    The Greens/EFA Group congratulate Roberta Metsola MEP on her election as President of the European Parliament and offer critical and constructive cooperation. The Greens/EFA Group call on all political groups in the European Parliament to ensure proportional representation of the democratic Groups of the European Parliament when electing …
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    Greens/EFA Group nominate Alice Bah Kuhnke for European Parliament President

    The Greens/EFA stand for a feminist, sustainable and democratic Europe and call on all MEPs to support these principles. The climate crisis is too urgent, the threat to biodiversity, our forests and oceans too serious for us not to act now. The European Parliament must stand hand in hand with its citizens in building a sustainable and inc…