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    EU Summit

    Commenting on the result of the European Summit, Rebecca Harmsand Dany Cohn-Bendit, Co-Presidents of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament said: "By giving the permanent crisis mechanism a watertight legal base through a limited change of the EU treaties, the EU summit took the right ...
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    e-fa News Round-Up October 2010

    The European Free Alliance (EFA) draws together political parties fighting for democracy and self-determination for the stateless nations and regions of Europe. European Free Alliance MEPs sit in a European parliamentary group with the Greens, making up the fourth largest group in the European parli...
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    EU budget 2011

    The EU Parliament today voted to adopt a compromise package on the EU's budgets for 2011. The Greens broadly welcomed the vote, which would limit the growth in the EU budgets based while still enabling the EU to respond to the extra demands created by the Lisbon treaty. Commenting on the general out...
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    SNP vote against EU budget increase

    SNP MEPs Alyn Smith and Ian Hudghton have today (Wednesday) voted to freeze the EU budget for 2011 in a fraught vote in Strasbourg which saw the amendment overwhelmingly defeated with 92 votes in favour of freezing the budget, with 564 in favour of increase. The already programmed multiannual increa...
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    Eu budget

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    Strasbourg Flash

    A busy plenary week includes legislative votes on maternity leave, the EU budget, and the external action service. MEPs will also discuss the Hungarian sludge disaster, the ACTA agreement and the Roma scandal in France, while the Sakharov Prize will also be decided.
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    EU state aid and competition law

    The Greens in the European Parliament today presented an assessment of the decision by the German government on the life extension of nuclear power plants (1). The analysis raises serious question marks about the decision and the related pact concluded with four major energy utilities, notably on it...
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    Financial transaction tax

    The European Commission today presented a communication on the Taxation of the Financial Sector. The communication acknowledges the possibility of an EU-level transaction tax but the Greens regret that it fails to outline any concrete proposal to this end. Commenting on the communication, German Gre...
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    Budget reform and cohesion funds

    The European Parliament today adopted two resolutions regarding the reform of cohesion policy beyond 2014. With this vote, the Parliament today presented its first input to the debate on the future architecture of the multiannual programmes, just before the publication of the fifth cohesion report b...
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    EU budget and ITER

    The EU budget committee voted last night to reduce proposed spending on the ITER nuclear fusion project under the EU budget for 2011 (1). Green MEPs welcomed the vote but argued that scrapping the project, which is facing higher-than-planned costs, would be the most logical solution. After the vote,...