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    Delivering the Right to Health with the Health Millennium Development Goals

    The conference - co-organised by by the Greens/EFA, the European Parliamentary Forum and the Action for Global Health - provides the opportunity for civil society to work with European leaders to find concrete solutions. Europe must move towards full funding for health, stronger health systems and universal access to basic health care in …
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    Child safety on social networking sites

    MEP welcomes EU initiative to better protect children who use the internetSNP President Ian Hudghton MEP has welcomed moves by the European Commission to make social networking sites safer for children who use them. Mr Hudghton commented following the publication of a new EU study which reveale...
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    Managing risks

    Public health disasters remind us how essential it is to have an effective and proactive pharmacovigilance system to guarantee the safety of EU citizens. In December 2008, the European Commission put forward proposals for new legislation governing Pharmacovigilance in Europe. This expert meeting will debate about the consequences of the e…
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    Brussels Agenda

    In the upcoming European Parliament committee week, Greens/EFA agenda priorities and events include Haiti, discussions on the EU-US SWIFT agreement and medicine safety with particular regard to the swine flu vaccine.
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    GMOs-Consumer protection

    It has emerged in Germany that massive quantities of "organic" clothes and textiles – sold by high street chains such as H&M, C&A and Tchibo – have been sourced from genetically-modified cotton in India.Greens/EFA President Rebecca Harms commented:"Although the fraud has onl...
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    Radioactive foodstuffs

    The EP industry and energy committee today adopted a report on EU rules on the radioactive contamination of foodstuffs (1). MEPs called for the legal base to be changed to ensure the European Parliament is a co-legislator on the proposal (2). Green MEPs believe the maximum permitted levels of radio...
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    Greens/EFA Round-up 14-17 December 2009

    Priorities for the Greens included the Commission statement on toy safety, the report on microfinance facility, the resolution on access to documents, the award of the Sakharov Prize, the resolution on violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as the EU budget.
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    Smith invites McCartney for "mince"

    SNP MEP Alyn Smith has today (Monday) invited Paul McCartney out to dinner in Brussels, for a plate of Scots mince, in advance of his speech at the European Parliament tomorrow. Mr Smith, a member of the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee, extending the invitation to Mr McCartney in advance...
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    Brazilian beef still leaves bad taste in Brussels

    SNP Member of the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee Alyn Smith has today (Tuesday) hailed a decision by the Agriculture Committee to haul the European Commission back to the floor of the full Parliament in Strasbourg to justify the continued refusal to ban Brazilian beef imports on grounds...
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    Forest fires in southern Europe and their consequences and the conclusions to draw for prevention and alert measures

    Tabled by Michail Tremopoulos, François Alfonsi and Raul RomevaOn behalf of the Greens/EFA Group The European Parliament, – having regard to its resolutions of 7 September 2006 on forest fires and floods, 5 September 2002 on floods in Europe , 14 April 2005 on the drought in Portugal, 12 ...