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    EU staff regulation reforms

    The lead European Parliament legal affairs committee today voted on the proposed reform of the EU staff regulations, the rules governing the employment of EU officials. The Greens voted against the final report due to the failure to introduce a progressive levy on the salaries of higher-earning EU...
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    Hungary - fundamental rights

    The European Commission today announced it would refer Hungary to the European Court of Justice over the failure of the Hungarian government to amend proposed laws threatening the independence of the judiciary and the data protection authority. The Greens welcomed the decision but expressed concern ...
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    Shale Gas Petitions at EP

    Green MEPs met with three petitioners from Bulgaria today to discuss their petition against the exploration and extraction of shale gas in their country ahead of its presentation to the petitions committee. Bulgaria depends almost entirely on Russian gas supplies via Ukriane and is understandably ...
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    EU plans for big brother data analysis must be nipped in the bud

    The ever-creeping drive for more pervasive retention and analysis of private data and big brother-style surveillance looks set to continue in the European Union. Last week, the European Parliament voted to give the green light to a controversial EU-US agreement on air passenger data. The passenger n...
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    Greens/EFA Round-up

    Priorities of the Greens/EFA Group for the April 2012 plenary session included the situation in Syria, the common corporate tax base, the taxation of energy products, the EU-US PNR agreement, the financing of ITER, the report on women and climate change...
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    Brussels Agenda

    Highlights of the week for the Greens/EFA include EP committee votes on mobile phone roaming, equal pay for equal work, taxing financial transactions, resource efficiency, reform of EU staff regulations. Other EU priorities are the 2013 EU budget, PNR and Schengen
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    No to PNR

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    No to PNR

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    Press release |

    Evans opposes giving all personal passenger details to the US

    Plaid MEP Jill Evans has protested at today's vote in the European Parliament allowing the transfer of personal information on all airline passengers to the US Department of Homeland Security.  Ms Evans said that the European Commission had not presented factual evidence to show that this mass ...
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    PNR - data protection

    The European Parliament today voted to give its consent to a controversial draft EU-US passenger data (PNR) agreement. The positive vote on the EU-US PNR deal, which came in spite of the fact that fundamental concerns previously outlined by the EP and European courts have not been addressed, will me...