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Plenary Flash 10-13 July 2023

On the agenda this week: nature restoration law, Fit for 55 & industrial emissions directive, search & rescue in the Mediterranean, EU Chips Act, ecodesign regulation, ING2/Qatargate,...
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Greens/EFA call on Council and the EPP to stop delaying the SUR

The Commission published additional data complementing the impact assessment of the Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products Regulation. The report shows that the proposed regulation will not have a significant negative impact on food security. The additional impact assessment has delayed its entry into force and threatens European he…
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FEMM and LIBE committees approves first EU legal document addressing gender-based violence

This is a historic step for the European Union as this directive will constitute the first legislative document of the Union for addressing gender-based violence. The Greens/EFA and feminists across Europe have long pushed for such a directive.
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Parliament to have final say on key nature bill in July

Members of the Environment Committee have just voted on the Nature Restoration Law. The Law will now go to the European Parliament Plenary session in July. There was no majority in favour of rejecting the law, despite the efforts of the EPP Group to attack nature and the Green Deal. The compromise did not get a majority.
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EFA remembers Winnie Ewing

It is with great sadness that we learn of the passing of former MEP Winnie Ewing, at the age of 93.
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Feminist, free, equal: meet human rights advocates in the US

Join us on the road with our MEPs Katrin Langensiepen and Monika Vana to hear from leading human rights advocates, who are building a world where everyone will be free and equal.
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Commission proposals welcome but not enough to steer EU through crises

Today, the European Commission has just presented two proposals, one on the revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework, the EU’s seven year budget, and the other amending the so-called Own Resources enhancing the EU’s ability to raise funds directly, rather than via Member States budgetary contributions.
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Debriefing of the June plenary session

Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary week included the Nature Restoration Law, artificial intelligence, internships, consequences of the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in Ukraine Dam, findings of the Pegasus Committee on surveillance spyware, and the Battery Regulation.
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EU Parliament votes in favour of ending surveillance spyware.

The European Parliament has today approved the recommendations to the Member States and the Commission included in the findings report of the Committee of Inquiry into Pegasus(PEGA) and other cyber espionage systems.
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Parliament calls for end to surveillance spyware

MEPs adopted the conclusions of the Pegasus Committee (PEGA) which was set up in the wake of the revelations that spyware had been abused inside and outside of the EU to target journalists, activists and politicians across Europe, including Greens/EFA Group MEPs Diana i Riba and Jordi Sole.