The parliament voted today on the budget framework for the next seven years – the multiannual financial framework. It would have been a chance to take a step into the direction of increasing the aid for the poorest in the world. EU aid has made a huge difference. Between 2004…

TiSA, the Trade in Services Agreement is one of the most important agreements that is currently negotiated apart from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) between the EU and USA. On 8th of July the second round of negotiations between the EU and 21 other countries (including the…

Currently, hundreds of negotiators from all over the world meet in Morocco to find an agreement on a new international treaty that should facilitate the access to books for blind, visually impaired, and other print disabled people. The World Health Organisation states that there are more than 314 million blind…

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The extraordinary joint meeting of the Committee on Development and the Committee on Foreign Affairs on the topic “Millenium Development Goals” took place on the 10th June 2010 in the European Parliament. Helen Clark had been invited to the European parliament to give a speech on the Millenium Development Goals…

With the European Parliament set to decide on the fate of the controversial ACTA anti-counterfeiting agreement, Green MEPs set out the reasons why they believe the parliament should vote to withhold its consent and reject the agreement. All of the 50 reasons to reject ACTA are listed here.  

Ska Keller, Eva Joly, Isabella Lövin, Catherine Grèze invite to a Conference and Discussion How coherent are you in your politics? Enhancing policy coherence for development May 11, 10-12.30, ASP 1 G 3 Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) means to ensure that no policies go against the aim of development…

From: Jan Philipp Albrecht MEP Karima Delli MEP Carl Schlyter MEP Ska Keller MEP Judith Sargentini MEP Christian Engström MEP Sandrine Bélier MEP Greens/EFA in the European Parliament To: Pascal Lamy Director General World Trade Organization Centre William Rappard Rue de Lausanne 154 Case postale 48 1211 Geneva 21, Switzerland…