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Poznan, 12/12/2008 European Parliament must do all in its power to strengthen Council decisions on climate change MEPs representing the European United Left/Nordic Green Left Bairbre de Brún (Ireland), Jens Holm (Sweden) and Roberto Musacchio (Italy), who are attending the UN climate change talks in Poznan this week, were strongly critical of the draft decisions…

Support Cyklopen Youth Cultural Center! November 29, the Cyklopen Youth Cultural Center in southern Stockholm was completely destroyed by arson. At the time that the fire broke out, Network Against Racism was to have had a function in the building. Fortunately, the activity had been cancelled shortly before. In all likelihood, neo-nazi groups are responsible…

Brussels, 08/12/2008 GUE/NGL delegation in Poznán for UN climate change conference MEPs Bairbre de Brún (Ireland), Roberto Musacchio (Italy) and Jens Holm (Sweden) from the European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) group are part of a 33-member European Parliament delegation heading off this week to the United Nations Climate Change Conference which started on 1…

Big success in today´s vote at the Climate Committee: The excact wording here (text first in Swedish, then English). GUE/NGL Brussels, 02/12/2008 A report voted today by the European Parliament’s Temporary Committee on Climate Change, drawn up by Conservative MEP Karl Heinz Florenz, concludes the work of this committee by putting forward a series of recommendations…

Regret to inform that a couple of minutes ago the Swedish parliament did – as expected – approve the Lisbon treaty. The Left Party and the Greens voted against. The vote was preceeded by a 9 hours long debate. The Left Party´s proposal on postponing the whole vote (in order to gain time) didn´t gain…

On Wednesday-Thursday this week I´m hosting GUE/NGLs annual environmental conference. This year it´s called: Feeding the World under the Climate Threat. Please find the whole programme at: clim_gueprogramme12-13_NOV_20081.doc