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    Press release |

    Simplifying public procurement would help Welsh businesses

    Plaid MEP Jill Evans has welcomed calls by the European Parliament to simplify rules on public procurement to make it easier for small and medium sized businesses to win public sector contracts.   MEPs have been voting today ahead of an EU law due in December to revise publ...
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    Country-by-country reporting

    The European Commission today set out proposals to revise EU rules on accounting and transparency (1). The Greens welcomed the proposals as a first step to improving transparency on the payments and accountability of large corporations but regretted that the Commission did not go further both in ter...
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    Eurozone summit

    Commenting on the open-ended outcome of this weekend's EU and Eurozone summit, Greens/EFA co-president Rebecca Harms said: "The most important lesson of this latest crisis summit with no definitive outcome must be that the EU needs to finally commit to a proper common economic policy. This endl...
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    Eurozone crisis

    EU and Eurozone heads of state are set to meet this weekend with expectations high that the summit will deliver a comprehensive set of solutions to the ongoing Eurozone crisis. Ahead of the summit, the Greens outlined their priorities for the comprehensive package of solutions that urgently needs to...
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    What should the Eurozone and EU Summits achieve?

    EU and Eurozone heads of state are set to meet this weekend with expectations high that the summit will deliver a comprehensive set of solutions to the ongoing Eurozone crisis. Ahead of the summit, Green economic spokesperson Sven Giegold outlines the key issues that need to be addressed by the summ...
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    Press release |

    Financial regulation

    The European Commission today presented legislative proposals aimed at reforming the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MIFID) (1). While the Greens welcomed some of the proposals aimed at increasing market transparency, the group has expressed disappointment that the Commission has failed ...
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    Publication |

    The first European Semester and its contribution to the EU2020 Strategy

    The Commission doesn't care about the objectives it sets for itself. This is how we could summarise the study realised for the Greens on the European Semester. This study is the first of its kind to check through all the recommendations that the EU has addressed to the 27 member states and to analyse their coherence with regard to the per…
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    Press release |

    EU financial rules

    The European Parliament and Council agreed today on a compromise to ban naked credit default swaps (CDS) on the sovereign debt of European countries under new EU rules. Commenting on the agreement, Green MEP and EP draftsman for the legislation Pascal Canfin said: "Today’s agreement, notably...
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    Event |

    Forging a Green response to the Eurocrisis

    The financial crisis developed into a threat of the European project itself and debates on measures how to get out of it is dominating the political debate on European as well as on national level. Both parliaments, the European and the national parliaments, have a crucial role in deciding on measures and safeguarding democratic legitima…
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    News |

    Weekly Round-up

    Priorities for the Greens this week included the Green report on illegal fishing, the CAP reform, the preparation of the European Council, the debate on Schengen and Bulgaria/Romania, the situation in Ukraine and the debate on uprisings in Yemen and Bahrain.