Delivering the Right to Health with the Health Millennium Development Goals -...
The conference - co-organised by by the Greens/EFA, the European Parliamentary Forum and the Action for Global Health - provides the opportunity for civil society to work with European leaders to find...
View ArticleMedical innovation prizes instead of monopolies - A Greens/EFA Conference.
This conference will bring together policy makers, experts, and representatives from civil society, industry and patient organisations to discuss new models for innovation in the biomedical sector.
View ArticleTraditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive - Watch the recorded live...
Everything you want to know about the Directive. React and ask your questions via Twitter using #THMPD. A Greens/EFA forum co-hosted by MEPs Michele Rivasi, Satu Hassi, Heidi Ruhle, Carl Schlyter and...
View ArticleHuman rights and the EU-India Free Trade agreement - A joint conference
Ska Keller co-hosts this conference on the negative effects of the EU-India Free trade agreement and what the Commission and Parliament can do have a positive influence.
View ArticleNew study on Passenger data agreement with the United States - Recorded...
A study done by legal experts shows that the new agreement with the United States on the transfer, retention and profiling of air passenger data (PNR) is in breach of EU fundamental rights provisions....
View ArticleDocument Freedom Day - Open standards in the eBook market
Giving voice to the movement for a free information infrastructure, and to highlight the importance of Open Standards and how they impact both universal access to the Public Domain and business...
View ArticleGMO-free Europe Conference 2012 - 7th European Conference of GMO free regions
Central topics of the conference this year will be the right to national bans of GMO cultivation, the deficient risk assessment of GMOs by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the upcoming seed...
View ArticleFinancing and biopiracy - The challenges of the next UN Biodiversity Summit...
Biodiversity erosion is particularly alarming in developing countries with the constant plunder of their natural richness and corollary the exploitative appropriation of indigenous forms of traditional...
View ArticleLimogeage de John Dalli - les Verts au PE demandent la mise en place d'une...
Le limogeage de M. Dalli a suscité de nombreuses interrogations. Des zones d’ombre persistent quant à la procédure et les raisons de ce limogeage, au contenu du rapport de l’OLAF, au rôle joué par les...
View ArticleHorsemeat scandal and the necessary EU response - Recorded livestream of...
With: Rebbeca Harms (Germany - co-president of the Greens/EFA group), Bart Staes (Belgium) and Carl Schlyter (Sweden - vice-chair of the EP committee on environment, public health and food safety)...
View ArticleGMO-free labelling of food products - a way to increase GMO-free supplies for...
The conference will look at whether voluntary GMO-free labelling of food products can contribute to increase GMO-free supplies for animal feed, and under which conditions. Food products that contain...
View ArticleTobacco lobbying and Dalligate - Proposed EP special committee on good...
The Greens/EFA group has proposed creating a special committee in the European Parliament to investigate the role of lobbying, notably tobacco lobbying, in the aftermath of the Dalligate scandal. At...
View ArticleFinding Food - innovative ways to help the most deprived
Over 90 million tons of food is wasted in the EU each year, of which at least a quarter is edible, while the current EU food programme disperses around 400.000 tons of food a year. There should be a...
View ArticleWater is a public good
Recent developments have confirmed that threat of privatisation of the water sector is still very real. Privatisation of public services, including water utilities, is set as a condition for Member...
View ArticleThe law of the seed - lecture by Vandana Shiva - Watch the video of the event
The Greens/EFA invite you to an exclusive public lecture 'The Law of the Seed ' by the international activist and scientist Vandana Shiva. She will explain why the newly proposed European seed...
View ArticleThe Greens/EFA Co-Presidents' briefing - Video press briefing Tuesday 22...
The Greens/EFA co-presidents Dany Cohn-Bendit and Rebecca Harms presented the key issues of the plenary session for the Greens/EFA group
View ArticleA pollinator-friendly agricultural model - the way forward
This event aims to raise awareness of the link between the existing dangers to pollinators and the current agricultural model. The first panel of this working session will give the floor to renowned...
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