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    News |

    Plenary Flash - 3-6 October 2022

    On the agenda for the plenary session: energy prices and cost of living, rule of law conditionality regulation in the case of Hungary, common charger for electronic devices, repression of women's rights protesters in Iran, Ocean Governance and the protection of biodiversity
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    Amazon Forest in Danger - Thumbnail
    Video |

    The Amazon Forest is in Danger

    Deforestation rates are skyrocketing in Brazil under current President Bolsonaro. Indigenous people's livelihoods are being destroyed, their land invaded. This is not only fuelled by Bolsonaro’s devastating policies but the EU also needs to take responsibility for what is happening.
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    © Illustrations credits: Lola Mercé
    Illustration magnifying glass and gmo material
    Study |

    Behind the smokescreen

    In 2018 the European Court of Justice ruled that new gene-edited organisms are covered by the EU’s GMO laws. The ruling galvanised a concerted lobbying response by promoters of new GM technology to get these new GMOs exempted from the EU’s GMO laws. What are these groups? Why would they promote a weakening of the EU’s GMO legislation?…
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    Event |

    Energy price crisis – Practical solutions to energy poverty

    Policy experts and grassroots organisations from across Europe will be there to discuss workable actions and policies to overcome energy poverty.
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    Euro sign in front of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt am Main, Germany / CCO mika-baumeister
    Euro sign in front of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt am Main, Germany / CCO mika-baumeister
    Event |

    Greening monetary policy in times of soaring inflation

    The ECB is under pressure to act, but how can monetary policy address fossil fuel-driven inflation without threatening the green transition? Register and join us on 28 September.
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    Photo by Jacek Dylag on Unsplash
    Photo by Jacek Dylag on Unsplash
    Position Paper |

    EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Income

    We need an EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Income to ensure that everyone has a living income that provides them with the financial resources needed to ensure a life in dignity.
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    Study |

    Energy Poverty Handbook

    This second edition of the Energy Poverty Handbook expands upon the findings of the original Energy Poverty Handbook to consider the best practices that can be employed to tackle the issue, in parallel with the causes and effects of energy poverty.
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    Press release |

    EU Directive on Minimum Income is needed

    The European Commission published recommendations on Minimum Income Schemes (MIS). The Greens/EFA Group welcomes the initiative of the Commission, but reiterates that we need an EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Income to ensure everyone has the financial resources to live a life in dignity.
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    Press release |

    EFA statement on the Italian elections results

    Italy has voted for its most far-right Government since World War II. Giorgia Meloni from Fratelli D'Italia (ECR) is set to become the next Italian Prime Minister.
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    Euro bank notes / CC0 Markus Spiske
    Euro bank notes / CC0 Markus Spiske
    Study |

    An EP-ECB interinstitutional agreement on monetary policy

    To inform the deliberations of the EP facing the ECB, this reports provides a legal and political analysis of existing accountability practices, while outlining scope for improvement, both by means of an IIA as well as through non-formal changes to ECB-EP interactions.