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    Defence Spending

    The European Parliament today adopted the report on the impact of the financial crisis on the defence sector (Lisek report), voting in favour of allocating additional funds of the EU budget for defence research and several other projects. After the vote, Green defence spokesman Reinhard Bütik...
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    Co-Presidents' session briefing

    This week's Strasbourg Plenary session briefing will be held exceptionally at 17:00. Greens/EFA co-presidents Rebecca Harms and Dany Cohn-Bendit on the key issues of the plenary session for the Greens/EFA group
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    Greens/EFA Group

    The end of 2011 marks the middle of the legislative period in the European Parliament. From January on, the European Parliament will have a new President and possibly new Vice-Presidents. The Greens/EFA Group today elected their new Bureau for the second part of the legislative period.  T...
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    ITER - nuclear fusion

    The European Parliament today voted to approve an agreement between the EP and Council, under which €1.3 billion of the budget overrun for the ITER nuclear fusion project will be funded from the EU budget in 2012-13 (1). The Greens have hit out at the deal and believe no more public funds should b...
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    Lisbon MEPs

    The last European Parliament elections took place in June 2009. At the time, the Nice Treaty - fixing the number of Members of Parliament to 736 - was still in force. With the entering into force of the Lisbon Treaty on 1 December 2009, the number of seats given to the European Parliament increased ...
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    Strasbourg Flash

    Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary week in Strasbourg include the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement, ITER nuclear fusion and EU funds, single EU work permit, criminal proceedings and the right to information, the Euro crisis, banning environment-damaging phosphates and many others
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    EU summit - Serbia

    Commenting on the decision at the EU summit to postpone any decision on granting EU candidate status to Serbia to next spring, Green foreign affairs spokesperson Franziska Brantner said: “Despite the considerable progress made by Serbia over the past year, now is not the right time to grant Serbi...
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    EU summit

    Commenting on the outcome of the EU summit on economic governance and the Euro crisis, Greens/EFA co-presidents Rebecca Harms and Dany Cohn-Bendit said: “This stopgap outcome has prevented summit failure but the proposed intergovernmental treaty raises as many new questions as it answers. In term...
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    Presidency of the European Union

    On Wednesday 7 December, a delegation of the Greens/EFA Group went to Copenhagen and met the incoming Danish Presidency of the European Union to discuss its priorities
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    EU summit

    This week's EU summit, the latest in a seemingly never-ending cycle of 'crisis summits', is being billed by many as the last chance saloon for the Euro. If that is the case, the portents are not good, with Monday's Merkozy meeting having served up another package of half-measures as the basis for ag...