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    Rare Earths

    Commenting on China’s announced cuts in its export quotas for rare earths for the first half year of 2012, Reinhard Bütikofer, spokesperson on industrial affairs for the Greens/EFA Group and Rapporteur on raw materials for the European Parliament, said: “China continues to revise its export quo...
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    e-fa: News Round-Up December 2011

    December 2011 Round-Up 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 European parliamentary group with the Greens, making up the fourth largest grou...
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    Energy Efficiency Directive

    The Environment Committee of the European Parliament voted today on its opinion on the Energy Efficiency Directive. A huge majority of the Environment Committee called upon the European Commission to withhold a significant amount of CO2 allowances before the start of the third trading phase of ETS a...
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    Greens/EFA Round-up

    Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary week in Strasbourg included the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement, ITER nuclear fusion and EU funds, single EU work permit, criminal proceedings and the right to information, the Euro crisis, banning environment-damaging phosphates and many others
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    EU-Ukraine Summit

    Ahead of the upcoming EU-Ukraine summit, a cross-party group sent an appeal to the Ukrainian government asking it to guarantee humane detention conditions and appropriate medical treatment for Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (1). Commenting on the situation of Ms Tymoshenko, Rebecca...
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    New Green MEP from Sweden

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    Press release |

    EU vote victory for Western Sahara

    A group of MEPs has welcomed the European Parliament's decision to reject a controversial agreement with Morocco. In a key vote in Strasbourg, MEPs refused to extend the protocol to the EU Morocco Fisheries Agreement which undermines the status of occupied Western Sahara and is questionable under in...
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    Event |

    The prospects for democracy in Algeria

    The Arab Spring saw many opposition movements emerge and uprisings take place in the Southern Mediterranean region. In Algeria however, there seems to be a deep silence hiding the trauma of the 90's. Constitutional laws are being voted, but can we really speak of democratic transition?
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    Defence Spending

    The European Parliament today adopted the report on the impact of the financial crisis on the defence sector (Lisek report), voting in favour of allocating additional funds of the EU budget for defence research and several other projects. After the vote, Green defence spokesman Reinhard Bütik...
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    EU-Morocco fisheries agreement/Western Sahara

    The European Parliament today voted not to give its consent to a controversial EU-Morocco fisheries agreement (1). The Greens warmly welcomed the outcome of the vote and called on the Commission to come forward with a revised proposal under which the waters of Western Sahara are excluded from the EU...