Brussels Agenda - Weekly preview of the Greens/EFA group - 3-7 June 2013
Priorities for the Greens this week: EU-Russia summit and EU-Russia relations, EU data protection rules Greens/EFA events: EU-US trade: the good, the bad and the ugly; Finding food - Innovative ways to...
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Modern slavery, forced prostitution, recruitment of child soldiers – trafficking in human beings has a lot of different appearances.
View ArticleGreens/EFA Round up - Debriefing of the Strasbourg plenary week 4-8 July 2016
Greens/EFA priorities for the Strasbourg plenary included: Energy labels and a common sense A-G system; Human trafficking and EU external relations; UK referendum aftermath; Diverting development aid...
View ArticleOut there - Celebrating diversity, fighting for equal rights & open societies
Pride is first and foremost political. It is not just about dressing up and bringing some more colour and glitter into the world. The Pride season is about equal rights for all. It is about the right...
View ArticleSakharov Prize 2016 - Greens/EFA nominate Can Dündar for defending of freedom...
The Greens/EFA group has agreed to nominate Can Dündar, a Turkish journalist, columnist and documentarian, for this year's Sakharov Prize.
View ArticleGreens/EFA Round up - Debriefing of the Strasbourg plenary week 12-15...
Greens/EFA priorities for the Strasbourg Plenary included: Car emissions scandal; Work-life balance; Rule of law in Poland; Situation in Turkey; State of the Union; Social dumping in the EU; Asylum -...
View ArticleGreens/EFA Round up - Debriefing of the Strasbourg plenary week 3-6 October 2016
Greens/EFA priorities for the Strasbourg Plenary included: transparency; GMO cultivation faces objection vote; Commission hearing on macro-economic conditionality for Portugal & Spain; Legal Aid...
View ArticleIn solidarity with Népszabadság - Questions about media freedom and pluralism...
The biggest Hungarian opposition daily newspaper Népszabadság was summarily shut down over the weekend of 8-9 October 2016. Journalists were told that their offices were being moved to another building...
View ArticleGreens/EFA Round up - Debriefing of the Strasbourg plenary week 24-27 October...
Greens/EFA priorities for the Strasbourg Plenary included: Breaches of democracy, rule of law, fundamental rights; Commission Work Programme; Corporate Tax package; Democracy and press freedom Hungary;...
View ArticleGreens/EFA Round up - Debriefing of the Strasbourg plenary week 21-24...
Greens/EFA priorities for the Strasbourg Plenary included: Occupational retirement provision; EU-Turkey relations; Conflict minerals trialogue; Council/Commission Statements on outcome of COP22; EU...
View ArticleGreens/EFA Round up - Debriefing of the Strasbourg plenary week 12-15...
Greens/EFA priorities for the Strasbourg Plenary included: LuxLeaks appeal trial; 4th Railway Package: missed opportunity for progress; New Greens/EFA co-presidents and bureau announced; Commission...
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