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    Data protection

    Justice and home affairs ministers, meeting in Council today and tomorrow, will decide on the opening of negotiations with the US and other third countries on agreements for the exchange of data for security purposes and a general data protection agreement with the US (1). Ahead of the decisions, Gr...
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    UE - Proche Orient

    La députée Verts/ ALE (Europe-Ecologie- les Verts) Nicole Kiil-Nielsen revient de Gaza et de Cisjordanie dans le cadre d'une délégation officielle du Parlement européen : "La situation dans la Bande de Gaza est Intolérable et explosive." "Avec l'appui des autorités Égyptiennes...
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    Iran

    Iranian woman Khadijeh Jahed, known as "Shahla" (1), was executed by hanging this morning in Tehran. Commenting on the hanging, Green MEP and chair of the European Parliament's Iran delegation, Barbara Lochbihler said: "The hanging of Khadijeh Jahed is an act of inhumane and cruel pun...
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    EU External Action Service

    The European External Action Service will officially start work on 1 December, one year after the Lisbon Treaty came into force and the start of Catherine Ashton's term as high representative. Commenting on this occasion, Franziska Brantner, Greens/EFA foreign affairs co-spokesperson, said: "Th...
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    International fisheries talks (ICCAT)

    The annual meeting of ICCAT (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) ended today in Paris after intense, clandestine negotiations. The Greens criticised the outcome on bluefin tuna, with the talks agreeing a total allowable catch far higher than that necessary to protect the species from collapse.
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    Free Liu Xiaobo

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    Climate change

    The European Parliament today adopted a resolution setting out its position on the forthcoming UN climate summit in Cancun (1). Green MEPs welcomed the resolution, which calls for stronger EU action on emissions and resolving contradictions in the EU's negotiating position. After the vote, Green MEP...
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    Burma - human rights

    Commenting on the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese pro-democracy leader and the 1991 Nobel laureate who has been in detention for 15 of the past 21 years, Green MEP and chair of the European Parliament subcommittee on human rights Heidi Hautala said: "The long-awaited release of Aung San Su...
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    Data protection

    The European Parliament today adopted a resolution on the negotiating mandates for a data protection agreement with the US, as well as agreements on passenger data (PNR) transfers. Following the vote, Green spokesman on civil liberties and home affairs Jan Philipp Albrecht stated: "The European...
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    A stronger European disaster response

    At the end of October, the Commission presented its communication entitled "Towards a stronger European disaster response" which in particular the questions of setting up an EU emergency response capacity and a more effective EU coordination of pre-committed Member States assets. This hearing aims at assessing the Commission's communicati…