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    Strasbourg Flash September 2009

    The highlight of next week's European Parliament plenary week is the scheduled vote on Barroso's second term on Wednesday, 16 September. On Monday, however, the Greens will call for a vote on the agenda to postpone this decision to after the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
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    Hearing of Mr Barroso at Greens/EFA Group meeting

    On 9 September 2009, current EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso took part in a two-hour Greens/EFA Group hearing to debate his record and proposed programme for a new five-year term. The debate opened with Greens/EFA Co-Presidents Dany Cohn-Bendit and Rebecca Harms questioning the very lega...
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    Greens/EFA Group demands for the next EU Commission

    This autumn will see the launch of a new five-year mandate for the European Commission and its chosen President. Europe needs the Commission to play a vital role as it responds to the triple economic, social and environmental crisis. The Greens/EFA Group have outlined essential considerations for the new Commission.
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    EFA Group - Committee Membership

    Appointments to European Parliamentary committees have now been confirmed for members of the European Free Alliance (EFA) Group in the European Parliament. The EFA Group was formed in 1999 and brings together representatives of stateless nations, regions and disadvantaged minorities.EFA MEPs' commit...
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    SNP MEP hails Icelandic EU bid

    SNP MEP Alyn Smith has today hailed the formal decision by the Icelandic Parliament, the Althingi, to apply to the EU for membership. Smith, a member of the European Parliament's Switzerland Iceland and Norway Delegation and regular visitor to Iceland has taken part in numerous meetings with th...
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    No to Blair as European President

    SNP MEP and Party President Ian Hudghton has strongly criticised a proposal to nominate former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair as the new President of the European Council.  The new post would be created if the Lisbon Treaty is ratified by all EU member states, and this is currently subject to a r...
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    New EFA Group in the European Parliament

    When: Tuesday 7 July 2009 at 14h30Where: European Parliament Press Briefing Room PHS 0A50  MEPs from the newly re-constituted European Free Alliance Group, which forms a common parliamentary group with the Greens, will give a press conference to present the new group and explain priorities for ...
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    Swedish EU Presidency - Commission President

    The Greens/EFA Group has welcome the Swedish EU Presidency's announcement that there will be no European Parliament vote in July on a second mandate for Barroso as EU Commission President.
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    Swedish EU Presidency

    Greens have warned the incoming Swedish Presidency that there is no European Parliament majority in favour of an early vote on Barroso's proposed second manadate as Commission President. Greens/EFA Co-Presidents have also demanded greater ambition in the EU strategy leading up to climate talks in Copenhagen.
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    Lisbon Treaty

    The Greens/EFA Group have welcomed the German Constitutional Court's judgment dismissing constitutional objections to the Lisbon Treaty.