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    The revolt from Istanbul

    Greens/EFA MEPs host a conference with guest speakers from Turkey, including representatives from the Taksim platform, to debate about the events in Istanbul and the situation in Turkey
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    Situation in Turkey

    Tabled by Hélène Flautre, Rebecca Harms, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Franziska Keller, Ulrike Lunacek, Isabelle Durant, Barbara Lochbihler, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Nikos Chrysogelos, Ana Miranda, Malika Benarab-Attou, Catherine Grèze On behalf of the Greens/EFA Group The European Parliament, – ...
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    The European Arms Exports, Peace, Human Rights and Democracy

    Greens/EFA conference will address the urgent issue of the implementation EU export criteria and the need to reform and strengthen the EU export regime. EU Member States outrank US and Russia as the world’s largest arms exporter. An ever increasing proportion of European arms exports - 61% in 2011 - is being delivered to countries outside…
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    Turkey demonstrations

    Commenting on the public demonstrations in Turkey and the violent response of the authorities, Green MEP and co-chair of the EU-Turkey joint parliamentary committee Hélène Flautre said: "The massive peaceful demonstrations in Turkey, the silence of the Turkish mainstream media and the excessi...
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    Human Rights in Russia

    The Human Rights Committee of the European Parliament held a hearing on Russia today with members of the band "Pussy Riot", William Browder and others. Chair of the Committee, Green MEP Barbara Lochbihler and the vice chair of the Parliamentary Committee on EU-Russia Cooperation, Gr...
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    Human Rights in Russia

    Anlässlich der heutigen Anhörung im Ausschuss für Menschenrechte zur Lage in Russland erklären Barbara Lochbihler, Vorsitzende des Menschenrechtsausschusses und Werner Schulz, Vizevorsitzender des Parlamentarischen Kooperationsausschusses EU-Russland des Europaparlaments:  "Bei der ...
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    News |

    Greens/EFA Round-up

    Greens/EFA priorities for the Strasbourg plenary week included bank resolution and economic stability, renewable energy policy in Europe, a missed chance for offshore drilling rules, tax avoidance and EU action, supervising European banks, the EU Commission and Dalligate, concerns with EU-US trade deal, defending EU standards in trade ag…
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    Press release |

    Burma

    The European Parliament today endorsed a proposal to grant preferential trade access to Burma (under the generalised scheme of preferences) after a break of 16 years. The Greens criticised the decision, notably the absence of any conditions or time limits, in spite of the human rights situation in t...
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    LGBT Discrimination

    Today the EU Fundamental Rights Agency published the first-ever comparative study on the experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the 27 EU Member States and Croatia. Drawing on over 93,000 responses and more than 20,000 additional individual sources, it finds that many hide ...
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    Syrian refugees

    Europe must accept more Syrian refugees. Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey each offer shelter to more than half a million Syrian refugees. In contrast, all 28 EU member states together have so far accepted only about 8000 refugees.