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Position papers include all papers formally adopted by our Group and thus representing our official position on major issues. Policy papers gather all briefings, brochures, statements from working groups or other Group bodies which have not been submitted to a vote but reflect a more technical position on specific topics. Studies are reports commissioned to experts and are accompanied most of the time with our political recommendations. For information and transparency purposes, we also publish here all Group letters sent to the other institutions or representatives

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    Taste the change

    In this cookbook, Greens/EFA MEPs share local/personal recipes from throughout Europe: from south to north and from east to west.Eating local – even home-grown and organic – food that you cook yourself is safer and feels good. Be the change you want to see on your plate.
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    Your Guide to EU Funding

    More EU money than ever before is earmarked for sustainable projects and the implementation of these projects requires close involvement of civil society including on local and regional level. This Guide to EU Funding shall help accessing EU funds. Accessing those Funds has often been problematic because of complex procedures and rules, …
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    Green Jobs

    By greening our economies, we can provide high-quality green jobs to fight unemployment and at the same time combat climate change and environmental decline. The EU can only benefit from such efforts. There is strong evidence to suggest that the green transition will have a positive impact on employment, reflecting the fact that sustainab…
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    © Udo Weber
    Greening the streets © Udo Weber
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    A Green Review

    During this five-year term, Greens/EFA have been the driving force to promote crisis resilience through social justice, to secure our climate and energy future, to fight for a healthy environment, to defend human rights, social, democratic and digital rights, to promote global solidarity and security and to celebrate cultural diversity in…
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    Erasmus +

    Want to know more about Erasmus+? Check out our Frequently Asked Questions section for students in a hurry.
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    Seed
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    Concentration of market power in the EU seed market

    Is the EU seed market really as diversified as the European Commission wants lawmakers and the general public to believe? Or is this market in fact transforming rapidly from a seed sector with a large number of competing small firms and farmers into an oligopoly, increasingly dominated by a small number of transnational agro-chemical-se…
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    EU systemic banks capture huge amount of implicit subsidies

    According to the study, the best estimate of subsidies amounts to 233.9 billion euro. The study shows that that without these implicit subsidies the large banking institutions in the EU would be making substantial losses. Furthermore, it compares the orders of magnitude of implicit subsidies with the upcoming capital charges and levies …
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    Environmental policy in the European Semester: assessing progress to date

    This Greens/EFA study draws a critical analysis of environmental policy in the current European Semester and discusses avenues for greening the EU semester process.
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    All you need to know on the Seed Production and Marketing regulation

    All you need to know on the Seed Production and Marketing regulation (Regulation on Plant Reproductive Material) What is the proposal on the Regulation on Plant Reproductive Material about? The newly proposed "European regulation on production, breeding and making available on the market of...
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    Using the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to Limit Fossil Fuel Subsidies

    Fossil fuel subsidies contribute to climate change by encouraging production and consumption of carbon-intensive energy sources. The negotiations between the United States and the European Union on the Trans- Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) present an important opportunity to negotiate both enforceable limits on fossil f…