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    Copyright: European Union
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    Decision on Ukraine accession talks welcome

    EU leaders have agreed to open accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova and reached an agreement on the revision of the EU’s seven year budget, the multiannual financial framework.
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    Breakthrough at World Climate Summit marks the end of the fossil fuel era

    The World Climate Summit (COP28) ends with a breakthrough towards phasing out oil, coal and gas in energy systems. The presidency of the United Arab Emirates threatened to gamble away the trust it had built up by setting up the Loss and Damage Fund at the start of the conference.
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    Photo by Gabriel Miklós on Unsplash
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    Rule of law & EU policy must not be blackmailed by Orbán

    The leaders of the main democratic political groups in the European Parliament are sending a letter to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, ahead of the Commission’s expected decision to proceed with payments under Cohesion Policy to Hungary. The Commission is scheduled to agree to release funding despite detail…
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    Greens/EFA Group & European Pirate Party reach agreement to continue positive and productive collaboration

    The Greens/EFA Group and the European Pirate Party (PPEU) have come to an agreement to continue their collaboration with the PPEU as a distinct delegation within the Greens/EFA Group. Greens/EFA MEPs have just approved the agreement and delegates for the European Pirate Party will vote on ratifying this agreement this weekend at the PPEU …
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    Nicolae Ștefănuță MEP elected as Vice President of the Greens/EFA Group

    Tonight, the Greens/EFA elected Nicolae Ștefănuță MEP as Vice-President of the Group. Nicolae Ștefănuță succeeds Ernest Urtasun, who was recently appointed Minister for Culture in the new Spanish Government.
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    MEPs vote to end endless scrolling

    Today, a great majority of members of the European Parliament voted in favour of the report on tackling the addictive design of online services. The Greens/EFA Group has long advocated for measures to tackle big tech’s tricks to keep you hooked to your screens. The report introduces a number of new concepts for consumer law in the text, w…
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    New draft conclusions do not yet promise a breakthrough

    COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber has just presented the preliminary conclusions of the COP28 climate summit (Monday, 11 December). The texts form the basis for the final round of negotiations, which the COP28 presidency has announced will be concluded tomorrow (Tuesday, 12 December). Bas Eickhout and Jutta Paulus, Greens/EFA members of the…
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    Vote on EU’s fiscal rules will entrench austerity & limit capacity to tackle crises

    Today, Members of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON) have just voted in favour of a reform of the EU’s fiscal rules, which are likely to force more austerity on national governments and limit the amounts they can spend in times of crisis.
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    Plenary Flash 11-14 December 2023

    On the agenda this week: European Council Summit, Fiscal rules, Role of tax policy in times of crisis, COP28, Adding hate crime and hate speech to the list of EU crimes, Rainbow families, Ecocide Ukraine.
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    Greens/EFA welcome stricter animal transport regulations

    The European Commission published the revision of the Animal Transport Regulation. The Greens/EFA has long pushed for this, and welcome the Commission revision. However, the proposed measures are not enough. It’s long overdue to significantly raise EU standards for animal transports.