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    e-fa: News Round-Up March 2012

    March 2012 Round-Up The European Free Alliance (EFA) draws together political parties fighting for democracy and self-determination for the stateless nations and regions of Europe. European Free Alliance MEPs sit in a European parliamentary group with the Greens, making up the fourth largest group i...
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    Greens/EFA Round-up

    Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary session included the state of nuclear power on the Fukushima anniversary, strengthening the role of cooperatives in European society, the recent elections in Russia, government violence in Syria, the low carbon roadmap...
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    Brussels Agenda

    Priorities for the Greens/EFA group this week include a common EU corporate tax base, new proposals for dealing with shadow banking and our iniative for the EP to participate in a worldwide reading of Liu Xiaobo's writings.
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    Radical thinking needed to tackle economic crisis

    In a debate at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Jill Evans MEP today spoke of the need for radical thinking to tackle the economic crisis in Europe.  Addressing Presidents Barroso and van Rompuy, Ms Evans said: "The series of European summits since May 2010 have taken place against t...
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    Funding the Green New Deal

    As Europe, and much of the developed world, continues to grapple with the ongoing debt crisis, it must not be forgotten that the most pressing threat facing us is climate change. This report examines how we can make the necessary investment in a Green economy within the confines of the debt crisis.
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    Brussels Agenda

    Priorities for the Greens/EFA group this week include improving enforcement of EU environment law, fixing the ETS and EU climate policy, the consequences of the Fukushima nuclear disaster one year on, how to stop land grabbing, and the current state of democracy in Hungary.
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    EU summit

    It is high time to end the damaging blinkered focus on public spending cuts and start addressing ways to strengthen national revenue sources. A long-overdue step to this end is to take common measures to tackle tax avoidance and evasion, as well as finally implementing a financial transaction tax and introducing a proper common corporate …
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    Energy and carbon tax

    The European Parliament economic affairs committee (ECON) today voted on proposed EU legislation on energy taxation, which sets out minimum European rates, notably with a view to introducing EU-level carbon taxation. The Greens welcomed the outcome of the vote, which gives a clear political signal f...
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    Greek crisis and a Green way out

    The European Council is meeting this Thursday, with Greece and the economic crisis once more high on the agenda. A blinkered austerity focused strategy has held sway since the beginning of the crisis, but it is not too late for us to learn from our mistakes. Green MEP Nikos Chrysogelos has written...
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    Brussels Agenda

    Priorities for the Greens/EFA group this week include introducing tougher energy efficiency rules, reducing mobile phone roaming chanrges, improving air passenger rights, women and climate change and Serbia's move towards EU menbership.