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    Backing for Catalan 'people power'

    MEPs from Corsica, Flanders and Wales will be in Catalonia this weekend to act as observers for the series of local referendums taking place on Catalan independence.A grassroots initiative has used existing powers to organise a series of local referendums at town and municipal level in order to give...
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    Tax and development to fight against poverty

    The Commission is currently working towards a paper addressing the issue of improving good governance in the tax area in developing countries. In this context, the European Commission and Parliament organize a joint conference with a view to analyse the link between taxation and development and the impact of harmful tax practices on devel…
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    The European OpenSource & Free Software Law Event

    The European OpenSource & Free Software Law Event is an event that aims to promote the sharing and dissemination of legal knowledge on Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) licences, as well as the development and promotion of good practices in the field. The themes of the day will be "FOSS Terminology" and "Mutual software development and o…
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    Afghanistan Post-Elections

    The conference aims at discussing how civil society can provide new momentum to reconstruction and state-building in Afghanistan post-elections. It is being held at a significant time for Afghanistan, security having deteriorated considerably since the last conference, and when concerns are being expressed about the slow progress of gover…
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    Climate change

    A new study by the Ecofys Institute, commissioned by the Greens/EFA group and launched today in European Parliament, has revealed EU's claims to be the leader in international climate policy to be a myth.
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    Human rights - Russia visit

    Speaking ahead of the UN International Day of Human Rights and her visit to Moscow and Ekaterinburg in Russia, Finnish Green MEP and EP human rights chair Heidi Hautala has called for protection and freedom of human rights defenders.
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    MEPs support for hunger striker

    MEPs from the European Free Alliance Group in the European Parliament are supporting the case of Western Saharan activist Aminatou Haidar.  Ms Haidar is currently on hunger strike at Lanzarote airport in the Canary Islands after being forcibly expelled from her homeland by the Moroccan aut...
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    Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Greens/EFA call for an immediate end to the violence and human rights abuses in eastern DRC and stress the need for further efforts to put an end to the activity of foreign-armed groups. They also express particular concern about MONUC's involvement with the Congolese army in operation Kimia II and call on the ONU to investigate.
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    Access to documents

    This motion for a resolution is about improvements needed to the legal framework for access to documents following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty
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    Kosovo

    In its conclusions on the Enlargement and Stabilisation and Association Process, EU foreign affairs ministers at the General Affairs and External Relations Council yesterday stressed that Kosovo should benefit from eventual visa-free travel to the EU. Ulrike Lunacek, Greens/EFA foreign affairs spoke...