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    Earth Day

    In the week leading to Earth Day (22 April) and six months ahead of the Nagoya Summit, the European Commission just published a puzzling report that opens a new debate on tools to prevent biodiversity loss. The report looks at a "Habitat Banking" system in which financial credits and debts for envir...
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    How much for biodiversity?

    On the occasion of the International Year of the Biodiversity, the Greens/EFA organise a series of events and actions around biodiversity. This workshop will deal about the European action for biodiversity protection and the marine, forest and agricultural aspects of biodiversity.
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    Video |

    GM maize and coexistence

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    Biodiversity Action

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    Letter to Commissioner Damanaki on bluefin tuna

    In the wake of Commission commitments to saving the bluefin tuna, but failure to secure a ban at CITES, Green MEPs Isabella Lovin and Raül Romeva have written to Maria Damanaki, European Commissioner for Fisheries, urging her to support a unilateral ban on the industrial fishing and export of bluefin tuna.
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    News |

    e-fa News Round-Up March 2010

    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 joint European parliamentary group with the Greens, making up the fourth largest group in parliament.E...
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    Press release |

    SNP backs international efforts to save traditional fishing rights

    SNP President Ian Hudghton MEP has (Tuesday) welcomed support from various European governments for the principle of EU nations retaining historical fishing rights according to traditional practices.The governments of Germany, Denmark and Estonia have all given backing to the principle of "rela...
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    Amflora potato

    Presidents of the EU Parliament's largest political groups today blocked a Greens/EFA request - supported by the GUE/NGL Group - for a debate on GMOs in next week's plenary session in Strasbourg. The request follows the EU Commission's decision to authorise cultivation of the gen...
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    Publication |

    Letter to Commissioner John Dalli on Amflora potato

    'Amflora' contains a gene which conveys resistance to antibiotics classified as 'critically important' and 'increasingly important' by the WHO and EMEA. Greens/EFA find it highly questionable that the Health Commissioner authorise a GM plant with an antibiotic marker gene, against the warning of the Authority under your responsibility, Eu…
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    Press release |

    GMOs

    The European Commission has issued the first new cultivation authorisation for a genetically-modified plant variety in 12 years, despite health and environment concerns. The resistance of one of its genes to medically-valuable antibiotics has been identified as a particular problem.