icon

ADVANCED SEARCH

Press Releases, Opinions, Publications, Events and Videos

Filter
  • Agriculture and Fisheries
  • Climate
  • Culture
  • Transparency and Democracy
  • Economy
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • European Union
  • International
  • Mobility
  • Rights and freedoms
  • Trade
  • Society
    • array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481902082_0d921c2a8ad0bc1f0c7ae0a66586429a.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481902082) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "0d921c2a8ad0bc1f0c7ae0a66586429a.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3763/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3763/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3763/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3763/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Press release |

    European Commission appointment

    The Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament has written to European Commission president-elect Juncker to highlight concerns with commissioner-designate Miguel Arial Cañete's candidacy, notably as regards certain conflicts of interest. Commenting on the initiative, Greens/EFA co-presidents Rebe...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481902082_ebb9d506660c25d632c01add74a4dd5c.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481902082) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "ebb9d506660c25d632c01add74a4dd5c.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3764/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3764/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3764/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3764/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Press release |

    Emissions trading

    The European Parliament's environment committee today voted to endorse proposals from the European Commission to extend a loophole under which certain heavy industry sectors under the EU's emissions trading scheme are gifted their emissions permits for free (1). The Greens had proposed rejecting the...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481902082_2f00de7f80b98e40fd575bd83390ee36.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481902082) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "2f00de7f80b98e40fd575bd83390ee36.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3765/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3765/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3765/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3765/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    News |

    Environmental legislation and the Troika

    The recent WWF report regarding environmental legislation in Greece highlights how legal and political safeguards for environmental protection have been seriously damaged by Troika policies. This report is yet more evidence of the failures of the short sighted economic policies driven by the...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481902084_2bd0502e8048c342435e162a40826009.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481902084) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "2bd0502e8048c342435e162a40826009.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3769/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3769/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3769/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3769/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Press release |

    Nuclear power/state aid

    Leaked reports indicate the European commissioner in charge of state aid, Joaquín Almunia, is set to recommend approving plans by the UK government to give public support for the construction of a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley (1). Commissioner Almunia was today questioned by Green MEPs on the...
    array(8) { ["url"]=> string(39) "files/assets/imgs/list/greennewdeal.jpg" ["title"]=> string(14) "Green New Deal" ["alt"]=> string(14) "Green New Deal" ["copyright"]=> string(14) "Green New Deal" ["updated_at"]=> int(1481900091) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "cbb3cc11b1cadad447963af0668f5a1b.jpg" ["fname"]=> string(16) "GreenNewDeal.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/1562/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(50) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/1562/list" ["photo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/1562/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(54) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/1562/portrait" } }
    Green New Deal
    Green New Deal
    News |

    Green New Deal

    The Green New Deal is the Greens' comprehensive response to the current economic, social and environmental crises. It aims to ensure prosperity and well-being for all, across the planet and generations, based on reducing inequalities within and between societies, and reconciling our lifestyles - the way we live, produce and consume - with…
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481902084_9338419b4b0ea33fc02beb03808a638a.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481902084) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "9338419b4b0ea33fc02beb03808a638a.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3771/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3771/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3771/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3771/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    News |

    Greens/EFA Roundup

    Greens/EFA priorities for the Strasbourg Plenary included access to life-saving medicines in Europe, EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, UN climate talks and the EU's role, the European Youth Initiative, nominations for the Sakharov Prize and the EU response to the Ebola outbreak.
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481902085_cb5d5a56ab07099b80c076022cfc458b.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481902085) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "cb5d5a56ab07099b80c076022cfc458b.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3772/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3772/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3772/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3772/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    News |

    Food Waste Plan Dumped

    This weekend a Belgian umbrella organisation of NGO's called 11.11.11 launched their campaign "Sorry is not enough" with the aim to call on the general public to put pressure on policy makers to act strongly against food waste.  Green MEP Bart  Staes: "Saying sorry will su...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481902086_cb3814d1e58e7c15a09bba867657d874.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481902086) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "cb3814d1e58e7c15a09bba867657d874.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3773/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3773/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3773/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3773/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    News |

    Fisheries and nature under Team Juncker

    So, overall, are you happy with the proposal from Jean Claude Juncker? I am worried about the direction the new Commission seems to be taking. My overall impression is that there is a clear risk that both environmental and fisheries policy is demoted and that Jean-Claude Juncker is putting more emp...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481902086_afbc059acc49c9d8d93f253960285aae.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481902086) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "afbc059acc49c9d8d93f253960285aae.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3774/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3774/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3774/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3774/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Press release |

    Finland-Russia/nuclear power

    Commenting on the decision of the Finnish Green Party to withdraw from government over plans to construct a new nuclear reactor, Philippe Lamberts and Rebecca Harms, co-presidents of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, said: "It is very regrettable that the Finnish government is a...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1481902091_c6768190fbe2eb5e6e60d427099d9738.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1481902091) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "c6768190fbe2eb5e6e60d427099d9738.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3784/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(57) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3784/list" ["photo"]=> string(58) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3784/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(61) "http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/api/image/3784/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    News |

    Climate and energy policy under Team Juncker

    So, overall, are you happy with the proposal from Jean Claude Juncker? I am not particularly happy with the proposal from Jean-Claude Juncker. The structure he has proposed for the new Commission appears to be based on promoting an outdated approach of economic growth at the cost of the environmen...