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A number of issues that popped up during the first few months of a new plastic bottle recycling system made it unpopular in Hungary, resulting in overflowing bins, long queues and many disappointed consumers. About 3.5 million bottles are thrown into the machines daily, far more than the planned capacity. For each empty drink container returned, consumers should be refunded 0.13 cents. "Once we came with a lot of bags, but the machines didn't work. Then we went to another one, and that was bad too. Finally, we took the rubbish home," Fruzsina, a Budapest resident, said. Other problems include ...
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Fifty-three years and five months separate Leoluca Orlando and Lena Schilling, the oldest and youngest MEPs in the new European Parliament. Both are part of the Green/EFA group, where they arrived with very different political and personal trajectories. Orlando, 76, comes from Sicily, where he has spent a long political career. He served a total of 22 years as mayor of the island's capital, Palermo — a city with a complex and complicated history he governed in the aftermath of the 1992 mafia massacres that killed judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. During his first term, from 1985 to...
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The European Court of Justice has confirmed that it will issue a much-anticipated ruling over access to information related to Ursula von der Leyen's handling of pandemic vaccine contracts next Wednesday (17 July), the eve of a crucial vote on the Commission President's reappointment in the European Parliament. Several Green MEPs filed requests to access COVID-19 vaccine contracts in 2021 negotiated by the Commission and in an attempt to understand terms and conditions of the agreements, brokered by the EU executive. The ruling is expected to be publicly available by early afternoon on Wednesd...
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It is becoming increasingly clear that Ursula von der Leyen will need the support of the Greens as she seeks a second term as European Commission president, forcing the nominee into a delicate balancing act as she does the rounds in Brussels ahead of a confirmatory vote next week. After a second meeting with von der Leyen in as many weeks, Greens/EFA co-president Bas Eickhout told reporters on Wednesday evening (10 July) that discussions over her political priorities were moving “in the right direction” but that she could not yet take his group’s support for granted. The German politician is d...
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Parties making up the left-wing New Popular Front (NFP), which created the surprise by topping France’s snap legislatures elections, claimed they have the right to govern and vowed to constrain the far-right as they returned to the National Assembly on Thursday. “We are, from today, on the job. We are on the job with our partners in the New Popular Front, we are on the job with the France Unbowed group, and we still claim to govern this country,” Mathilde Panot, the parliamentary leader for the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party told reporters upon arriving at the National Assembly. “[French...
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As the first exit polls were released at the crowded offices of the Greens Party in Paris, campaigners jumped up in joy, crying and applauding over a result they had hoped for but did not expect. The left-wing coalition the New Popular Front (NPF) was projected to gain the most seats in France’s lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, after the far-right National Rally (RN) came first in the first round of the elections last week. Outside the electoral parties, onlookers honked from cars and people in the streets chanted the coalition’s name “Popular Front,” which refers back to a 19...
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The last time left-wing parties joined forces to form a coalition, there was a clear leader in the figure of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. But the far-left founder of France Unbowed (LFI) has been heavily criticised over his early comments on Israel and Gaza and recent statements seen as downplaying antisemitism. This led to the dissolution of the New Ecological and Social People’s Union (Nupes) late last year, with left-wing parties running separate party lists during the June European elections. That was until President Emmanuel Macron called a snap election, prompting the parties to try to join toget...
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While Ursula von der Leyen seeks support from MEPs in her bid for a second term as European Commission president, her European People’s Party does not plan to broaden a three-way centrist alliance with the Socialists & Democrats and liberal Renew group, but one way or another she might need the support of the Greens or the hard right. A senior source within the EPP told Euronews the Greens group would not be invited to join. “There won't be any formal inclusion of the Greens in the platform,” the source said, adding: “It will not happen.” This was reinforced by a spokesperson for the centre-ri...
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The head of France's Green Party has called on the presidential coalition's leaders to commit to withdrawing from second-round legislative races to prevent far-right candidates from winning. In a letter addressing the presidents of four political parties in Emmanuel Macron's coalition, Marine Tondelier, national secretary of the French Ecologists party, wrote that the country's "situation called for simple and clear commitments." Her party would "do everything to beat National Rally candidates", Tondelier added. Recent polls suggest that in France's upcoming snap legislative elections on 30 Ju...
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Volt, the European federalist movement that secured five MEPs in recent European elections, has voted to stay in the European Parliament’s Green grouping. The decision, taken by a poll of party members, puts an end to rumours that they might instead join Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Renew party. After EU elections held 6-9 June, parties are racing to see who can coalesce into the biggest groups – the channel by which funding and influence is distributed within the Parliament. It was clear as polls closed that the European People’s Party and socialists would constitute the two biggest coalitions ...
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