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    News |

    Plenary Flash: Greens/EFA Priorities 16 to 19 June

    GREENS/EFA priorities for the plenary session are the Clean Industrial Deal, Electricity grid, Hungary, the EU-Israel Association Agreement, the Ocean Pact, the use of surveillance spyware and much more.
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    Image by joakant from Pixabay
    Press release |

    Greens/EFA welcome the European Ocean Pact and call for concrete action

    Today, the European Commission presented its European Ocean Pact. The Greens/EFA Group have long called for a comprehensive approach to issues concerning the ocean
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    EFA STATEMENT ON THE HISTORIC ECJ RULING ON THE EU-MOROCCO TRADE DEAL.

    Luxembourg – The European Free Alliance group welcomes the historic ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) invalidating the 2019 trade agreements between the EU and Morocco concerning fisheries and agricultural products. This decision represents a significant victory for the Sahrawi peo...
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    Ecological Disaster in Galicia: EFA MEP Ana Miranda Slams Negligence and Demands Action.

    EFA MEP Ana Miranda spoke up against the environmental catastrophe plaguing the coasts of Galicia, initiating an urgent and necessary debate at the European level. The disaster, triggered by the tide of pellets inundating Galician beaches, has shown the lack of an effective response from the Galician government.
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    Opinion |

    No nature, no fish - Why we need (more) marine protected areas

    Caroline Roose
    Opinion by Caroline Roose
    Marine biodiversity in the Mediterranean is declining. MEP Caroline Roose explains how more marine protected areas can save our oceans.
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    Plenary Flash 15-18 January 2024

    On the agenda this week: Hungary: Frozen Funds, Israel/Gaza Conflict, Fiscal Rules & Economic Governance, Support needed for the protection and restoration of marine ecosystems to support sustainable fisheries, Plastic pellets and the impact on micro plastic pollution in the maritime and coastal habitats, F-Gases and Ozone Depleting Subst…
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    Ana Miranda Urges immediate EU Action on Galician Coast Pollution from Pellet Dumping

    Ana Miranda, EFA MEP, condemned today in the European Parliament the environmental disaster of plastic pellets dumping on the coast of Galicia and the lack of action by the Galician government of the PP.  On the 8th of December, a ship named 'Tocano' lost part of its shipment, including plastic pellets, off the coast of Galicia and Por…
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    EFA MEPs demand EU to negotiatie fisheries deal with Western Sahara

    Today, 17 July 2023 the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement expires and its illegal nature as sanctioned by the EU Court of Justice prevents its renewal.
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    Industrial farming seen from above / CCO no one cares
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    EPP and Renew align with far-right extremists against nature restoration

    A majority of EPP, Renew and right-wing populists in the European Parliament's Fisheries Committee rejected the European Commission's proposal for a Directive on Nature Restoration. The rejection is part of an ideological right-wing campaign against the Green Deal and key legislation to protect the climate and conserve natural resources.
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    Greens/EFA welcome plan to end bottom trawling

    The European Commission presented an action plan to end bottom trawling. In the "Action Plan for the Conservation of Fisheries Resources and Marine Ecosystems", the EU Commission calls for an end to the use of bottom trawling gear in marine protected areas from 2030. The Greens/EFA call on the EU Commission to present a proposal for EU-wi…
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