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    Tenerife blue chaffinch Fringilla teydea / Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble / Flickr CC BY 2.0
    Policy Paper |

    Greens/EFA demands for COP15 of the Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD)

    The COP15 in Montreal from 7 to 19 December must deliver a New Deal For Nature. Read our demands for the UN's Convention for Biological Diversity here.
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    Iceberg / CC0 Annie Spratt
    Iceberg / CC0 Annie Spratt
    Study |

    Climate risks and debt sustainability

    Read our study on the impact climate change has on debt sustainability. It investigates the trade-off between increasing deficit, with a faster climate change reduction, and a more conservative approach, with slower adaption to climate change.
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    Traffic light sign underwater CCO kelly-sikkema
    Traffic light sign underwater CCO kelly-sikkema
    Policy Paper |

    Greens/EFA demands for COP27

      These are the Greens/EFA’s demands for the COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt:   The EU must step up its climate action to limit Global warming to 1,5 degrees, in accordance with the Paris Agreement; must update its nationally Determined Contributions by COP27 so ...
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    Pay your fair share
    Policy Paper |

    The Roadmap Towards a Green Tax Fix

    We know there can be tax justice in the EU. But for this, we need the EU to be brave. An EU that we can be proud of is an EU that does not surrender to the powers of billionaires and multinationals. It is one that ensures that the people and the planet are at the core of all its decisions, not profit.
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    Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
    European flag / CC0 Markus Spiske
    Position Paper |

    Reforming EU macroeconomic governance

    With the upcoming revision of the Stability and Growth Pact, the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament adopted its position on an ambitious reform of the EU economic governance framework.
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    Policy Paper |

    Extraordinary profits mean extraordinary taxes

    As Greens/EFA, we have been asking for an ambitious and coordinated approach to ensure the fair redistribution of the extraordinary profits of large corporations across Europe and we are now seeing the first steps of our demands come to life, but we cannot stop. A windfall tax strategy that applies to all sectors is not just needed, it is…
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    ©annie-spratt
    trees©annie-spratt
    Study |

    Ecological Forestry In Europe

    This report advances principles for such an ecosystem-based forest management. It outlines how these principles can be put into practice, including examples of forests that have transformed to this model. Finally, the report discusses how EU policies can support the transition.
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    Lady Justice Statue - iStock.com/MarkusBeck
    Lady Justice Statue - iStock.com/MarkusBeck
    Study |

    Systemic problems, systemic infringements : the case of Hungary

    In this paper we analyse the independence of the Hungarian judiciary, and argue that Hungary is not a rule of law state, the judiciary does not operate according to the principles of constitutional democracy. We also show how judicial capture affects all segments of the public sphere, illustrated by the examples of academic freedom, med…
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    Publication |

    New ‘Pandemic-level’ Solidarity Fund needed in the face of pan-EU energy crisis & war

    The Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament therefore calls on the Commission to adopt proposals for the establishment of an EU Solidarity Fund based on joint borrowing and grants to Member states on the scale of the pandemic recovery fund, addressing high energy prices and the climate emergency
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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?…