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    We desperately need stronger action on social rights

    The COVID-19 pandemic is having profound health, economic, employment and social impacts. We desperately need a stronger Social Europe. Here are the Greens/EFA's proposals ahead of the launch of the European Pillar of Social Rights.
    Opinion |

    New GM technology has no place in sustainable farming

    Benoît Biteau Martin Häusling
    Opinion by Benoît Biteau & Martin Häusling
    New report shows that new GM technology won’t solve the problems of industrial agriculture and will undermine nature, climate protection and the European Green Deal.
    Event |

    The European Pillar of Social Rights: the tool for a just climate transition?

    Experts from civil society will discuss and put key questions to Greens/EFA MEPs Mounir Satouri and Kim van Sparrentak.
    Covid-19 vaccine/ CC0 Hakan Nural
    Press release |

    Greens/EFA call for global & equitable access to vaccines & European containment strategy

    MEPs will debate the European Vaccination Strategy with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament are calling for global and equitable access to vaccines, among other measures. Read more.
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    Press release |

    Recovery Fund essential to ecological transition

    Members of the European Parliament will vote on the outcome of the negotiations into the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), designed to help EU Member States through the economic fallout from the pandemic. The Greens/EFA group welcome the allocation of at least 37% of the total national envelopes to biodiversity and climate, as well …
    Wind turbines in a field/ CC0 Alex Eckermann
    Press release |

    Parliament wants EU to slash material use and consumption

    The European Parliament will vote today (9 February) on the Parliament's position the European Commissions' New Circular Economy Action Plan, a main pillar of the Green Deal. The Greens/EFA group are calling for binding targets to reduce the use of resources, the right to repair, and a digital product passport that should inform consumers…
    Offshore wind farm / CC0 Nicholas Doherty
    Publication |

    Best practice in maritime spatial planning

    With this study, we set out to demystify the process behind planning, developing and conservation for our seas and oceans. In the coming years, we will be increasingly familiar with the process of Maritime Spatial Planning as we look to simultaneously harness the energy of the winds and the seas and protect our marine environment from ove…
    Photo European Parliament - Architecte : Association des architectes du CIC : Vanden Bossche sprl, C.R.V. s.a., CDG sprl, Studiegroep D. Bontinck
    News |

    Flash - Plenary session 8-12 February 2021

    During the plenary session, the European Parliament will debate and/or vote on COVID vaccines, new circular economy action plan, recovery and resilience facility, report on border procedures, Ostrovets nuclear power plant, combating human trafficking, ghost flights in Europe, de facto abortion ban in Poland,...
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    Press release |

    Riba - 'Europe must act to save the Ebro Delta'

    EFA MEP Diana Riba is calling for concrete action at EU level to conserve Europe's deltas, including the Ebro Delta. Significant deltas in Europe include the Danube, the Vistula, the Rhine, the Po, the Rhone and the Ebro. They are all rich in biodiversity and of high socio-economic and env...
    Shoal of fish/ CC0 Sebastian Pena Lambarri
    Opinion |

    Maritime Spatial Planning

    Grace O'Sullivan
    Opinion by Grace O'Sullivan
    New study shows that effective Maritime Spatial Planning does not view the marine space through prisms of exploitation and economic development, or environmental protection alone.