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    Combating violence against women

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    Spanish government criticised on migrant policy

    "The Spanish government wants to legalise illegality" - Terricabras MEPs have strongly criticised Spanish authorities for their 'unacceptable and wrong' behaviour towards migrants at Spain's overseas enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa. Spain is accused of the 'summary expulsion ...
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    Air passenger data exchange

    The European Parliament today voted to refer an agreement between the EU and Canada on the exchange of air passenger data (PNR) to the European Court of Justice (1). Welcoming the vote, Green home affairs spokesperson Jan Philipp Albrecht said: "There are serious doubts about the legality of th...
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    Iraq: kidnapping and mistreatment of women

    Tabled by Alyn Smith, Barbara Lochbihler, Michel Reimon, Jean Lambert, Bodil Ceballos, Ernest Urtasun, Jordi Sebastià, Judith Sargentini, Ulrike Lunacek, Heidi Hautala, Reinhard Bütikofer, Davor Škrlec  on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group The European Parliament, – having regard to its previ...
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    Serbia: the case of accused war criminal Šešelj

    Tabled by Davor Škrlec, Igor Šoltes, Ulrike Lunacek, Tamás Meszerics, Ernest Urtasun, Barbara Lochbihler, Jordi Sebastià, Heidi Hautala, Klaus Buchner on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group The European Parliament, -     having regard to its previous resolutions on...
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    Air passenger data exchange

    The Greens/EFA group has called for the European Parliament to support the referral of a planned agreement between the EU and Canada on the exchange of air passenger data (PNR) to the European Court of Justice. MEPs will vote next week on whether to refer the agreement to the ECJ for its legal opini...
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    Petitions Committee concern at UK forced adoptions

    Serious concerns were raised at this week's meeting of the European Parliament's Petitions Committee about the practice of forced adoptions in the UK. MEPs also expressed concern about apparent attempts by UK authorities to prevent those affected from speaking to the committee. The Committee Chair ...
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    Basque Friendship Group re-established

    The European Parliament's Basque Friendship Group has been re-established for this next term of the European Parliament. It is made up of 14 MEPs from 5 different political groups and includes EFA MEPs Jill Evans, Ian Hudghton and Tatjana Ždanoka who were founder members. The group was established ...
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    Hungary defamation case

    The district court of Budapest yesterday ruled in favour of Green MEP Ulrike Lunacek in a defamation case brought against the Hungarian journalist Zsolt Bayer for injurious statements made on Hungarian television. Commenting on the ruling, Ulrike Lunacek said: "It is welcome that the Hungarian ...
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    EU asylum rules

    The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) today ruled that the authorities in Switzerland could not return an asylum seeking family to Italy due to insufficient guarantees regarding the welfare of the family. The Greens welcomed the ruling and cited it as further evidence of the need to revise the E...