Daniel Cohn-Bendit
- European Parliament presidency - Martin Schulz urged to relinquish EP presidency in context of Commission presidency campaign
- GM maize authorisation - Commission insistence must be met with censure
- MFF/future EU budget - Final deal commits EU to a budget with no vision and no scope to redress this
- Lampedusa tragedy / EU Council
- NSA spying scandal - free trade agreement
- EU summit - A summit full of empty promises and words
- Multiannual Financial Framework - A bad deal and a breach of trust
- Greens visit to Athens - Launch of a "Call from Athens"
- Press release: Turkey demonstrations - Spirit of compromise must prevail to prevent further regression of democracy
- Greek broadcaster shutdown : Heavy-handed decision underlines democratic concerns
- EU-Summit: Cobbled-together compromise no basis for Europe's future
- UK-EU relationship: Cameron cannot blackmail EU with hokey-cokey referendum
- Nobel Peace Prize: EU gets timely wake-up call
- Palestine: UN recognition an historic step to peaceful solution
- Backward-looking EU budget looms, as haggling leads to wrong priorities being set
- EP backs UN recognition of Palestinian state
- Eurogroup - Greece: Stop shifting goalposts on bailout
- Sakharov prize: Award to Iranian activists ups pressure on regime to end their detention and wider repression
- EU leaders buy more time on banking union but end of year deadline must be final
- Dalli resignation / EU tobacco legislation
Dalli resignation / EU tobacco legislation
Press release - Strasbourg - 23.10.2012
"The circumstances surrounding the resignation of commissioner Dalli remain hazy, with resulting concerns being raised about undue influence. Commission president Barroso needs to lift the smoke and provide full transparency about the circumstances surrounding the resignation. This includes making the report by OLAF public, as it is clearly in the public interest."
Commenting in the context of today's debate with the Commission, Green public health spokesperson Michèle Rivasi (MEP France) added:
"The review of EU tobacco rules is long overdue and this latest delay reflects poorly on the Commission and its commitment to addressing this public health priority. Tobacco is the largest single cause of avoidable death in Europe and strengthening EU rules on labelling, health warnings and additives should clearly be a priority in this context. We implore Commission president Barroso not to play into the hands of the tobacco lobby and to ensure the legislative review is presented as soon as possible."
