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    Study |

    Paris aligned EU external action for a climate just world for all

    The study - commissioned by the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament - shows how the European Green Deal can be mobilised to secure an EU foreign policy aligned with the Paris Agreement and capable of accelerating the transition towards a climate-just world for all.
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    Belarus OUT (Photo by Leonid Shcheglov / BELTA / AFP)
    A picture taken on November 8, 2021 shows migrants at the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region.
    Press release |

    Commission plans tantamount to accepting pushbacks

    The European Commission has just announced that it will allow Poland, Lithuania and Latvia to ‘re-direct’ asylum seekers to a formal border crossing point, where they can be detained for up to 20 weeks. The proposal implicitly endorses the current practice of pushbacks at the borders with Belarus, which brings asylum seekers, including fa…
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    Press release |

    Government must halt attacks on ‘Memorial’ & civil society

    Memorial, one of the most prominent Russian human rights organisations, and a former Sakharov Prize laureate, is facing threats of being dismantled by the Russian courts. The action by prosecutors is based on allegations that Memorial has failed to comply with requirements of the controversial law on ‘foreign agents’, legislation that sti…
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    Photo by Yu Siang Teo on Unsplash
    Mostar Bridge
    Press release |

    EU has responsibility to support peace in Bosnia & Western Balkans

    MEPs will debate the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the request of the Greens/EFA Group, following the recent worrying political developments in the country. The Greens/EFA Group are calling for the EU to take the lead in finding a political solution to the current crisis. Any political agreement must not further deepen ethnic di…
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    © Kancelaria Premiera (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
    Belarus Border Refugees
    Event |

    Live Q&A on EU external borders: Human lives instrumentalised in a geopolitical conflict

    MEP Tineke Strik recently visited the Poland and Lithuanian border with Belarus, and MEP Damian Boeselager recently visited Athens and Samos. In a live, together, they will reflect on their missions, explain the current crises at the EU external border and discuss their priorities of how the EU can improve the situation on the ground.
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    Photo by Lydia Hague on Unsplash
    Fence on Lesvos
    Press release |

    Greens/EFA MEPs call for end to criminal charges against Humanitarian Workers

    Over 71 MEPs have sent an open letter to the European Commission and the Greek government, in support of humanitarian workers facing possible 25 years’ imprisonment as Greece cracks down on activists engaged in search and rescue. This Thursday, the trial of humanitarian workers will start in Greece and could result in the activists spend…
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    fence
    Letter |

    Supporting Humanitarian Workers at the EU’s External Border

    On 21st August 2018, Greek Police arrested humanitarian workers Seán Binder, Sarah Mardini and Nassos Karakitsos along with over 20 others. They were subsequently taken to Mytilene police station, questioned, and detained on orders of the Magistrate of Mytilene and held in pre-trial detention...
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    Photo by Olivier Miche on Unsplash
    Mountains
    Press release |

    New EU Asylum Agency first step to a functioning common European asylum system

    The European Parliament has voted in favour of establishing a fully-fledged EU Asylum Agency (EUAA) which will replace the European Asylum Support Office (EASO). The Greens/EFA group welcomes the establishment of this new agency. This is the first asylum related law to be adopted since at least 6 years, when the Commission proposed a se…
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    Press release |

    EFA President calls for European response to crisis at EU/Belarus border

    President of the EFA Group in the European Parliament Jordi Solé MEP has called for a European response to the growing migrant crisis at the EU's border with Belarus. Belarus' dictator Lukashenko stands accused of cruelly using migrants as a tool in a hybrid attack on the EU, follo...
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    Climate Justice Now Protest Sign
    Opinion |

    CLIMATE JUSTICE AT COP26? Why we need an intersectional approach to climate activism

    The climate crisis is affecting some parts of the planet more than others. But especially those most affected people and areas are not represented adequately at the COP in Glasgow. Continue reading to find out why intersectionality and representation at COP26 matters.