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    Oriol Junqueras ©Marc Puig i Perez(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
    Oriol Junqueras
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    ECJ rules Oriol Junqueras has the right to be a MEP

    Today, European Court of Justice has ruled that our colleague Oriol Junqueras has the right to be a Member of the European Parliament. The Spanish Supreme Court had ruled that Junqueras could not take up his seat after he was elected in the last European elections in May, as he was in pretrial detention for having participated in the orga…
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    Emily O'Reilly ©european ombudsman
    Emily O'Reilly
    Press release |

    Parliament votes for Emily O'Reilly to continue work in holding EU institutions to account

    The European Parliament has voted to elect Emily O'Reilly to continue in her current role as European Ombudsman, an independent role that is designed to hold EU institutions and bodies to account, as well as promoting good administration. O'Reilly won in the third round of votes. There were five candidates in the first round.
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    Ilham Tohti
    Ilham Tohti
    Press release |

    European Parliament criticises China's repressive policy in Xinjiang

    The Sakharov Prize this year goes to the Uighur professor of economics and civil rights activist Ilham Tohti.   Reinhard Bütikofer, Chairman of the China Delegation of the European Parliament and Greens/EFA spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, comments:"The European Parliament has t...
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    European Union
    Hemicycle European Parliament Strasbourg
    News |

    What's coming up this week

    A look ahead to the plenary session in the European Parliament in Strasbourg and the Greens/EFA priority issues on the agenda
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    Woman with facial recognition graphic on face
    Woman with facial recognition graphic on face
    Event |

    Automated Discrimination?

    Artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly important yet invisible role in our everyday lives. The Greens/EFA Digital Working Group invites you to a hearing on 12 December 2019 to discuss the societal impact of automated decision-making processes with a special focus on discrimination.
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    Public Domain
    Political map of the Middle East
    Event |

    North and East Syria/Rojava

    This conference will focus on the current situation in North-east Syria/Rojava, and on the implication of the Turkish state in it.
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    © European Union 2015 - Source EP
    strasbourg building ep
    News |

    Greens/EFA Debriefing

    Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary week included the votes on climate emergency and the Climate Summit in Madrid (COP25), the new European Commission, the votes on the 2020 Budget, public country-by-country reporting, combatting gender-based violence, and an EP Mission to Malta following recent revelations around the murder of Daphne C…
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    © Bmywuk
    Silhouette behind glass door
    Press release |

    International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women & Istanbul Convention

    The EU must take a stand and end all gender based violence. The Commission must make violence against women and girls and other forms of gender-based violence a crime under EU law. We need considerably more investment in the fight against violence against women and a radical change of course to put an end to hatred against women.
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    Photo by Simon King on Unsplash
    Man standing near window with window blinds
    Event |

    Shrinking Spaces

    Civil society organisations are increasingly under pressure in Europe. NGOs engaged in helping refugees as well as human rights defenders fighting against rule of law backsliding are criminalised, intimidated and charged with legal restrictions. The conference will address how the criminalisation affects the rights of citizens and discuss…
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    CC Scott Webb
    Child eating Apple
    Press release |

    World Children's Day – Europe must do more to build a better world for all children

    On World Children's Day – 20 November 2019 – EFA MEP Diana Riba has called for the EU to do more to build a better world for all children. That means ensuring that children's rights are respected in all aspects of EU law, and taking concrete steps to end child poverty in Europ...