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3 December 2008

Not a cent!

A few days ago the government announced that relatives of victims of Dutch war crimes in Indonesia would not be receiving damages, however much they harped on about it. The mass murder in Rawagedeh of hundreds of innocent men and boys happened, after all, such a long time ago. The lawyer working for Premier Balkenende stated this quite literally when he wrote that "insofar as your clients have a claim, this claim is in any case out of date." This implies that the fact of large scale war crimes having been perpetrated remains in doubt and that there is no responsibility to be taken. This is incredible audacity.

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2 December 2008

Novel foods will be better regulated thanks to SP report

The SP is winning increasing support in the European Parliament for its view that meat from cloned animals must not be smuggled on to our plates via the back door. "We must not recognise cloned meat as a novel food under the new regulation," said Kartika Liotard following today's vote on her report on the proposed new regulation in the European Parliament Committee on the Environment and Public Health.

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1 December 2008

The constitution and the Treaty

Speech on the European Treaty by Hans van Heijningen, SP general secretary, at the conference of the Peace and Neutrality Alliance, Saturday 29th November in Dublin

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28 November 2008

Minister must review aid to Burundi

On Friday, SP Member of Parliament Ewout Irrgang asked development minister Bert Koenders to review the Netherlands' aid to Burundi. In Irrgang's opinion, too many human rights abuses are taking place in Burundi for the country to continue to be given millions of euros in unconditional budgetary support.

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27 November 2008

Petition against fybromyalgia

Almost 14 million people suffer from fybromyalgia within the EU. Fybromalgia brings with it chronic pain which can ruin your entire life. Yet neither the European Commission nor the Council of Ministers recognises the condition. A group of Euro-MPs is collecting signatures for a petition demanding that something be done about this.

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26 November 2008

Sugar cane and soya from stolen land

Inhabitants of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul are being driven out by violent means by people occupying lands on which the indigenous people have lived since time immemorial. The aim of the land thieves is to institute large-scale cultivation of soya and sugar cane. The Brazilian authorities have taken no action against the thefts.

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