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    Press release |

    ITER/France

    The Green MEPs Bart Staes, Isabelle Durant and Michèle Rivasi were in the delegation of MEPs that visited Cadarache, France from 16 to 18 May 2011 to evaluate the progress of the ITER project of an experimental nuclear fusion reactor. A visit which comes at a time of financial tension, the cost hav...
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    ECOFIN Council

    Eurozone finance ministers have just agreed to grant a bailout package of €78bn to Portugal, the third euro-area country to receive official loans. The EU’s two bailout funds, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and the European Financial Stabilization Mechanism (ESM) will each prov...
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    News |

    Plenary Round-up

    Highlights for the Greens included the votes of the reports on lobbying transparency and registering lobbyists, on the discharge of the EU's 2009 budget and on investment agreements with 3rd countries. The debates on Schengen, on nuclear safety, on novel foods and on Syria were also our priorities during this plenary week.
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    Publication |

    Small Business Act Review

    We are reminded daily how SMEs, accounting for the vast majority of all business in Europe, is fundamental to the EU economy and how we should do more for supporting them. However, the Small Business Act, aiming primarily at reducing bureaucracy, improving access to markets and to financing, remain...
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    Video |

    Labour Migration and Social Rights

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    Event |

    Labour Migration and Social Rights

    We will examine how we can integrate migrant workers into the European labour markets by giving migrant workers rights. But we want to do it in a way that avoids a race to the bottom for wages and working conditions. We wish to avoid social dumping and the other downsides of migration and therefore we wish to put forward demands - to the …
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    Event |

    Raw materials

    In the context of the Bütikofer report, the Greens in the European Parliament are hosting a public conference with high level experts to define a Green strategy on raw materials. MEPs and experts will discuss the effects of exploitation and preservation of raw materials on trade and development, resource efficiency. The conference will al…
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    Press release |

    Nuclear industry

    Preliminary findings of a new independent study on the status of the nuclear industry were presented today in the European Parliament at a press conference hosted by the Greens/EFA group (1). The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2010-11 (the final version of which will be presented to the Worldw...
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    Press release |

    Economic governance package

    The European Parliament economic affairs committee yesterday evening adopted a series of reports as part of the new EU economic governance package (1). While they have supported part of the package, the Greens have described the vote as a missed opportunity to make the proposals fair and balanced. A...
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    Press release |

    Economic indicators

    A new study, presented by the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament today, has underlined the need for to look beyond gross domestic product in order to assess the situation in Europe's regions.  Commenting on the outcome of the study, Green MEP and vice-president of the EP's social affai...