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    Strasbourg Flash - MFF special

    With the European Parliament to vote on the EU multiannual financial framework 2014-20, as well as a series of votes on EU funding programmes for the budgetary period, this preview provides an overview from a Green perspective. Click for a printable-layouted version (pdf) - MFF: EU budget off on the...
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    EU insurance rules (Solvency II)

    The European Parliament and Council last night reached an agreement on revising the EU's prudential rules for insurers (the Solvency II Directive). The Greens criticised the outcome for falling short in key areas aimed at protecting policy holders. Commenting on the outcome, Green finance spokespers...
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    A Post-Growth Society for the 21st Century

    How can economic growth be explained, and what future for growth in Europe? What’s the state of natural resources, limiting our ability to grow? What could be key factors and dynamics for decoupling economic growth from our ecological footprint in the case of energy and climate change? Given the radical uncertainty about the future of ec…
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    The Amazon up for grabs?

    CONFERENCE PRESENTATION Belo Monte is a controversial mega-dam complex on the "big bend" of the Xingu river, a tributary of the Amazon. Like other mega-projects, it is claimed that such large scale development will improve living conditions for local people, in line with the  Brazi...
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    Belo Monte Mega-Dam

    Our delegation's visit to the Belo Monte Mega Dam site this year made clear that from the streets of Rio to the upper Amazon, Brazil's social movements are reclaiming their democratic space. With several of the European companies involved facing trials for bribery and corruption related to the rewarding of public contracts in Brazil, we a…
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    Euro crisis response

    A European Parliament inquiry into the role of EU-ECB-IMF troika is set to be launched, with political group leaders expected to give the inquiry the go-ahead at today's Conference of Presidents (1). The Greens/EFA group, which initiated and pushed for the inquiry, welcomed the anticipated decision,...
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    EU-Ukraine

    The Ukrainian parliament today postponed a decision on the medical treatment of imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, while five additional opposition politicians in Ukraine were also charged. Commenting on these developments, and their implications for the EU's Eastern Partnership Summit i...
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    The right to decide

     CONFERENCE DOCUMENTATION Watch the recorded video stream Simultaneous interpretation will be provided English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Catalan and Galician DRAFT PROGRAMME 9:00-9:30Registration 9:30-11:00Welcome speech: Jill Evans MEP, EFA Group President Part 1: A recognised right &nbs...
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    2 years left to reach an ambitious climate deal

    From 11 to 22 November 2013, the United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Warsaw, Poland. During the previous international climate negotiations, the most pressing issues - especially the necessity for all countries countries to urgently reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to have a chance to limit global warming to les…
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    Press release |

    EFA Conference - the Right to Decide

    Speakers from Catalonia, Scotland, the Basque Country, Wales, Galicia, and Quebec took part in a conference hosted by the European Free Alliance Group in the European Parliament today on 'The Right to Decide'. The event focussed on the distinctive and different con...