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    e-fa News Round-Up May/June 2011

    Key issues over the past few weeks included: E-coli outbreak S4C future raised with European Commission EU calls for a new era of social justice Scots political bloggers EFA Group visit to Limburg Food security and price volatility Independence for South Sudan Plight of the Tuareg in the Libyan Con...
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    Pregnant Workers Directive

    The ConDem UK Government is reported to be amongst a number of EU states trying to block new EU legislation to improve maternity leave. On Friday (17 June) EU ministers meeting in Brussels are set to discuss the Pregnant Workers Directive. The new law was approved by the European Parliament last Oc...
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    Plenary Round-up

    The main issues were the multiannual financial framework, the Eurovignette, the application of Schengen acquis in Bulgaria and Romania, EU-Canada trade relations, the European Arrest Warrant, the nuclear stress tests, the forthcoming EU-Russia Summit and the external dimension of social policy.
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    Appeal "Let's change Europe"

    A group of MEPs today launched the cross-party appeal "Let's change Europe" criticising current economic and social policies in the EU and calling for a change of course. It's the economic governance package, in particular, that's in the line of fire. It is described as an unprecedented ch...
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    No Sustainable Resources without new own resources

    The EU is facing a major economic and social crisis, together with the food, energy and climate crises, which are multiple manifestations of the limits of our model of development and the mechanisms that support it. The current debt crisis has led Member States to curb public spending and propose au...
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    Labour Migration and Social Rights

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    Labour Migration and Social Rights

    We will examine how we can integrate migrant workers into the European labour markets by giving migrant workers rights. But we want to do it in a way that avoids a race to the bottom for wages and working conditions. We wish to avoid social dumping and the other downsides of migration and therefore we wish to put forward demands - to the …
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    Economic indicators

    A new study, presented by the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament today, has underlined the need for to look beyond gross domestic product in order to assess the situation in Europe's regions.  Commenting on the outcome of the study, Green MEP and vice-president of the EP's social affai...
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    Roma

    The European Commission today presented an EU framework for national Roma integration strategies. The Greens have given a cautious welcome to the framework but regretted the failure to put a central focus on discrimination and the weak requirements on member states. The group has stressed the need f...
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    e-fa News Round-Up March 2011

      The European Free Alliance (EFA) draws together political parties fighting for democracy and self-determination for the stateless nations and regions of Europe. European Free Alliance MEPs sit in a European parliamentary group with the Greens, making up the fourth largest group in the Europe...