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    Press release |

    Minority rights

    The European Parliament's civil liberties committee today voted with a large majority in favour of a report calling for an EU roadmap against homophobia and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Commenting after the vote, EP rapporteur/draftsperson and Green civil liberties...
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    Fracking in Romania

    Green MEPs have written to Martin Schulz, president of the European Parliament, calling on him to denounce the current situation in Pungești, Romania, where villagers have been lawfully protesting against Chevron's plans to drill for shale gas and have been brutally treated by riot police, with s...
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    Turkey

    The European Commission and Turkish government today signed agreements on readmission of migrants and the opening of negotiations on visa liberalization. These agreements will lead to a relaxation of EU visa rules for Turkish citizens in return for Turkey readmitting illegal migrants who enter the E...
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    News |

    Greens/EFA Round-up

    Greens/EFA priorities for the Strasbourg plenary included trotecting migrants' lives in Mediterranean, reforming EU fisheries policy, deep sea fishing and destructive trawling, EU-Morocco fisheries and Western Sahara, the situation in Ukraine, repairing the emissions trading scheme, EU rules on mortgages, sexual and reproductive health an…
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    Press release |

    Ukraine

    The European Parliament today adopted a resolution on the situation in Ukraine. Commenting after the vote, Greens/EFA co-president Rebecca Harms stated: "The European Parliament has today sent a clear signal to President Yanukovych. MEPs have called for the urgent convening of a round table at...
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    Video |

    Ulrike Lunacek on the rejection of the SRHR report in the EP

    The so-called Estrela report on "Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)" was rejected today due to intensive lobbying by conservative MEPs and NGOs. In this video Ulrike Lunacek MEP expresses her disappointment and explains why it should have been adopted.
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    Event |

    From Maidan Square to the European Parliament

    In the context of the crackdown against democratic pro-EU demonstrations in Ukraine, Greens/EFA organise a public hearing with Ukrainian representatives of the media, political and civic movements
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    Press release |

    EFA President calls for Civilian Peace Corps

    Plaid Cymru MEP Jill Evans (Wales) has called for the establishment of a European Peace Corps. The President of the European Parliament's European Free Alliance Group, and Vice President of the Greens/EFA Group made the call in a key debate in the Strasbourg parliament today. MEPs were discussing&nb...
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    Sexual health and rights

    The European Parliament today failed to adopt a report by its women's rights committee on sexual health and reproductive rights, after a narrow majority of MEPs voted to back an alternative resolution by centre-right political groups, which aimed to bury the issue (1). Commenting after the vote, Gre...
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    EU-Morocco fisheries agreement/Western Sahara

    The European Parliament today voted in favour of a new EU-Morocco fisheries agreement, two years after decisively rejecting an earlier version. The Greens criticised the vote and the agreement, which would give the EU the right to fish in Western Saharan waters despite the fact the government of Mor...