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The group has worked to ensure the EU is a leader in the international response to climate change in the UN climate negotiations. Greens/EFA has led calls to phase-out nuclear power across Europe, notably in response to the Fukushima disaster. The group has also campaigned against the inherently risky and environmentally- damaging technology of shale gas extraction.

With threats to basic rights and freedoms prominent on the EU agenda, the group has also been to the fore in combating this, whether through defending basic democratic values in EU member states where they are under threat (e.g. Hungary and Romania), preventing the rolling back of core EU policies (e.g. the Schengen border-free system) or sticking up for individual freedoms by opposing plans to store passenger data (PNR) and ensuring the rejection of the controversial ACTA anti-counterfeiting trade agreement.

The Greens/EFA group will continue pushing for these priorities in the future.