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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...
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    Copenhagen climate summit

    The Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament will have a strong presence at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. Four Greens/EFA MEPs will be part of the European Parliament's official delegation: President Rebecca Harms (Germany), Satu Hassi ( Finland), Yannick Jadot (France) and Bas Eickhout (Netherlands).
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    Brussels Agenda

    Greens/European Free Alliance major priorities for next week are the COP15 UN climate change conference in Copenhagen and the EU summit of heads of state and government in Brussels. Greens/EFA events also include a presentation of a study on CO2 reduction targets and joint conferences on tax and development, Afghanistan and Opensource and…
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    Bluefin tuna

    In response to a formal question from Green MEP Raül Romeva, the European Commission has revealed that the EU pays millions of Euros to European fishing fleets that target bluefin tuna.
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    Smith hails progress on green electricity transmission charging

    SNP Member of the European Parliament Alyn Smith has today (Wednesday) hailed a revelation that National Grid experts are working on a new model of transmission charging which could see grid connection costs for renewable operators halved as a major step forward in resolving the thorny issue of loca...
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    EU subsidies to bluefin tuna fishing fleets

    In response to a written request from Raül Romeva, the European Commission has revealed the EU has paid out millions in subsidies to bluefin tuna fishing fleets, ins pite of the increasingly endangered situationof the species.
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    How to get REDD right?

    Deforestation has a serious impact on the climate, biodiversity and the livelihoods of local people. It seems therefore useful to install mechanisms that prevent deforestation. How to design these mechanisms and whether to integrate them in the international climate agreement is discussed in different fora.