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    SWIFT bank data

    Today, the Council of EU foreign ministers is set to grant the European Commission a mandate to negotiate a bank data sharing agreement with the US authorities. Greens/EFA Co-Presidents Rebecca Harms Daniel Cohn-Bendit comment:"It is unacceptable that the EU Commission is attempting to bypass the Eu...
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    Russia - human rights

    The murder of Andrei Kulagin, activist for human rights organisation Spravedlivost (Justice), has been announced by authorities more than two months after his disappearance and almost two weeks after his body was found. Rebecca Harms, President of the Greens/EFA Group in the European parliament and ...
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    EFA Group - Committee Membership

    Appointments to European Parliamentary committees have now been confirmed for members of the European Free Alliance (EFA) Group in the European Parliament. The EFA Group was formed in 1999 and brings together representatives of stateless nations, regions and disadvantaged minorities.EFA MEPs' commit...
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    Zdanoka to observe Moldovan elections

    Latvian MEP Tatjana Zdanoka will next week join an official EU election observation mission to Moldova. Ms Zdanoka is a member of the seven strong European Parliament delegation who will serve as official observers for the 29 July legislative election.Legislative elections were originally held in Ap...
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    SNP welcomes European action on dementia

    SNP President Ian Hudghton MEP has today (Wednesday) welcomed proposals from the European Commission to coordinate action across the EU aimed at tackling Alzheimer's disease, dementia and other degenerative neurological conditions.The EU initiative seeks to improve early diagnosis of dementia, coord...
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    EP committee chairs

    Eva Joly (France) will chair the European Parliament's development committee, while Heidi Hautala (Finland) takes over the chair of the human rights subcommittee. Greens also picked up seven vice-chair positions in other committees, including for budget control, a surprise result.
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    EU Council President

    Reacting to the UK Europe minister's comment that Tony Blair would be the UK government's candidate for the future EU Council president (assuming ratification of the Lisbon Treaty), Greens/EFA Co-Presidents Rebecca Harms und Daniel Cohn-Bendit said: "The suggestion of Tony Blair to become the E...
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    SNP MEP hails Icelandic EU bid

    SNP MEP Alyn Smith has today hailed the formal decision by the Icelandic Parliament, the Althingi, to apply to the EU for membership. Smith, a member of the European Parliament's Switzerland Iceland and Norway Delegation and regular visitor to Iceland has taken part in numerous meetings with th...
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    Russia - human rights

    Greens/EFA MEPs were today shocked by the news of the brutal murder of Russian human rights activist Natalya Estemirova, who had close relations with the parliamentary group. Greens/EFA Co-Presidents Rebecca Harms and Daniel Cohn-Bendit commented: "We deplore the cowardly murder of the exceptio...
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    No to Blair as European President

    SNP MEP and Party President Ian Hudghton has strongly criticised a proposal to nominate former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair as the new President of the European Council.  The new post would be created if the Lisbon Treaty is ratified by all EU member states, and this is currently subject to a r...