Sven Giegold
Member of the European Parliament – Greens/EFA Group

Speaker of the German Green Delegation

Month: January 2019

Press breakfast Tue 29.01. 9h30: Parliament to vote if lobbying gets transparent

Dear correspondents, For the first time, the European Parliament has the opportunity to vote on binding rules for lobby transparency instead of broadly ignored voluntary recommendations. However, after political and legal roadblocks have been cleared, the European Peoples’ Party (EPP)…
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Citizenships and visas: EU Commission must set and comply with binding minimum standards against the sale of citizens’ rights

Today, Wednesday, the European Commission warned EU Member States of the controversial “golden passports and visas” programmes that grant residence permits and even citizenship to non-EU citizens in exchange for money and investment. The report of the European Commission…
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Invitation: Conference on Brexit and the future of tax havens

Brexit must become an exit from British tax dumping. The rejection of the Brexit agreement by the British House of Commons has made the modalities of the Brexit even more incalculable. However, for the Greens/EFA group in the European…
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European Parliament: Lobby transparency must not be a secret matter

On 31st January, the European Parliament will vote for the first time on binding rules for the lobbying transparency of MEPs, as part of a reform to amend the European Parliament’s rules of procedure. Last Wednesday, the Christian-Democrat EPP…
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