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    Grand majority of Parliament votes in favor of a regulation on investor-state lawsuits

    Investor-state dispute settlement ( ISDS ) has come into the focus of critics since the start of negotiations on a free trade agreement with the US (TTIP). ISDS means that foreign investors can sue the states hosting their investments in front of international courts when they see their rights and p...
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    Rescuing refugees at sea

    The European Parliament today voted to confirm new EU legislation governing sea missions by FRONTEX, the EU's border management agency. The Greens acknowledged some improvements in the new rules but expressed concern that it will still fail to offer full protection to refugees. After the vote, Green...
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    Strasbourg Flash

    Greens/EFA priorities for the Strasbourg Plenary include reports on politicisation of EP administration posts and Martin Schulz; monster trucks, pollution and safety; EU airport noise rules; transparency and the lobby register; banking resolution and taxpayers' exposure; regulating investment markets and products; plastic bags; saving mig…
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    Electoral Fraud in Turkey

    Basque MEP Inaki Irazabalbeitia held a press conference today in the European Parliament to raise concerns of alleged electoral fraud in the recent municipal elections in Turkey. He was joined for the press conference by Eyyup Doru of the Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party or BDP. Mr Irazabalbeitia ...
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    Does the NSA know I had a beer with ...

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    Ukraine

    With increasingly alarming reports from Ukraine on the occupation of government buildings and growing tensions in cities in eastern Ukraine, Rebecca Harms, President of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament, called on the OSCE mission to Ukraine to immediately and consistently carry out it...
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    Greens/EFA Round-up

    Greens/EFA priorities for the Brussels plenary session included Car engine noise; EU nuclear safety rules; Europe's Magnitsky law; Emissions from aviation; Net neutrality; Clinical trials for medicines; outside the Plenary: Putin's Russia: USSR reloaded?; Bee Week 2014
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    No spyware for dictators

    For years, we as Greens in the European Parliament have fought for a robust regulatory framework controlling the export of European surveillance technology. Especially the Conservatives and the German Liberals, however, continue to block even the slightest attempt to introduce legally binding export rules on European spyware. Sell spyware…
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    Putin's Russia

    This event will be livestreamed Watch the Livestream The Russian constitution declares the Russian Federation to be a democratic and social state under the rule-of-law. It guarantees human rights, the right to life, democracy, the separation of powers, individual liberty rights and diversity of po...
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    TTIP, beware what lies beneath

    On the occasion of the EU-US Summit and the presence of Barack Obama in Brussels, European Greens and Belgian Green parties rallied outside the European Parliament to highlight the growing concerns that TTIP will water down hard-won social, environmental and health standards among many.