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    Amflora potato

    Presidents of the EU Parliament's largest political groups today blocked a Greens/EFA request - supported by the GUE/NGL Group - for a debate on GMOs in next week's plenary session in Strasbourg. The request follows the EU Commission's decision to authorise cultivation of the gen...
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    Europe must act to promote equal language rights

    EU institutions must fulfil obligations to all European languagesThe European Union is failing to protect the rights of millions of speakers of non-official EU languages, according to a group of MEPs who will hold a major conference at the European Parliament in Brussels on Thursday. They say t...
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    EFA representatives met President Van Rompuy

    President of the European Free Alliance (EFA), Ms. Nelly Maes and MEP Jill Evans, President of the EFA Group in the European Parliament, met with the President of the European Council, Mr. Herman Van Rompuy.In the one hour meeting with Mr. Van Rompuy, held Thursday 4 March 2010, Ms. Nelly Maes and M...
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    Letter to Commissioner John Dalli on Amflora potato

    'Amflora' contains a gene which conveys resistance to antibiotics classified as 'critically important' and 'increasingly important' by the WHO and EMEA. Greens/EFA find it highly questionable that the Health Commissioner authorise a GM plant with an antibiotic marker gene, against the warning of the Authority under your responsibility, Eu…
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    Europe 2020 agenda: a path or barrier to the Green New Deal?

    On 3 March, the European Commission is publishing its Communication on the EU2020 Strategy. The Greens/EFA Group invite you to an event to analyse the “sustainability” of this strategy with key speakers from the green technologies sector, and public and private investment sector. The afternoon will see a debate on the key question: Is gro…
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    EU 2020 Strategy

    The Greens/EFA Group has criticised the Commission's Communication on the EU 2020 Strategy, which repeats mistakes from the Lisbon Strategy and fails to adequately address social and environmental concerns as essential to Europe's economic future.
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    PANEL SUMMARIES

    9.30 – 11.15 - Part 1:  How to ensure the EU leads on green technologies?Focus: Leaders in Green technologies in EuropeIntroductionIn its proposals for an EU 2020 Agenda the Commission is repeating the mistakes of the Lisbon Strategy by presenting a programme without demanding obligations. We need...
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    PRESENTATIONS

    3 March 2010
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    VIDEO

    Video Statements:Click on the names below to watch videoPart 1:  How to ensure the EU leads on green technologies?Claude Turmes MEP comments the European Commission's Europe 2020 strategy.Claude Turmes MEP speaks with Ditlev Engel, Giuliano Monizza, and Harry Verhaar.Part 2: What role for public an...
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    EFA representatives meet President Van Rompuy

    President of the European Free Alliance (EFA), Ms. Nelly Maes and MEP Jill Evans (Plaid Cymru), President of the EFA Group in the European Parliament, will be meeting the President of the European Council, Mr. Herman Van Rompuy this Thursday 4 March. In the one hour meeting with Mr. Van Rompuy,...