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    Pandora Papers visual / GreensEFA
    Pandora Papers visual / GreensEFA
    Opinion |

    One year after the Pandora Papers scandal - has the EU learned any lessons on tax havens?

    Damien Carême Kira Peter-Hansen
    Opinion by Damien Carême & Kira Peter-Hansen
    A year after one of the biggest tax evasion scandals, the Pandora Papers, what lessons has the EU learned?
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    Sonia Guajajara - Thumbnail
    Sonia Guajajara - Thumbnail
    Video |

    Sônia Guajajara, our Sakharov Prize nominee

    Sônia Guajajara is a brave human rights defender from Brazil and our Sakharov Prize nominee. She fights for the rights of Indigenous peoples and for the protection of the Amazonia forest.
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    Sunflower
    Sunflower
    Press release |

    Greens/EFA welcome windfall tax & call for an embargo on Russian fossil fuels

    The Greens/EFA Group welcomes today's EU Energy Ministers agreement on a windfall tax for excess profits from energy companies. The Greens/EFA Group call for a fair distribution of revenues from the windfall tax, an embargo on fossil fuels and uranium imports from Russia, a common EU-wide energy purchasing platform, support for households…
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    Picture of the hemicycle in Strasbourg
    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
    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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