The EU’s key challenge in 2020 is to grasp opportunities offered by the ecological and digital transitions, its chief Ursula von…
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PVC (BRUSSELS) – MEPs on the European Parliament’s Environment Committee objected Tuesday to a Commission proposal allowing lead in recycled PVC, citing the need to protect human health and the…
Environment (STRASBOURG) – The European Parliament called Thursday on the upcoming 2020 UN biodiversity conference COP 15 to agree on legally binding targets, as was the case for the Paris…
The EU unveiled plans Tuesday to finance its new European Green Deal, which it says would lead to more than EUR…
reducing air…
Photo Daimler Chrysler (BRUSSELS) – A new EU Regulation setting stricter CO2 emission performance standards for new passenger cars and for new light commercial vehicles (vans) in the EU came…
Renewable energy (BRUSSELS) – EU states endorsed Wednesday a political agreement on a ‘green list’, a common classification system to encourage private investment in sustainable growth and contribute to a…
von der Leyen – Photo EU Council (BRUSSELS) – EU leaders, not including Poland, endorsed Friday the objective of making the EU climate-neutral by 2050 in…
Source EP (BRUSSELS) – The European Commission presented its long-awaited ‘European Green Deal’ Wednesday, a package of measures to…
The EU Water Framework Directive is ‘fit for purpose’, the Commission declared Thursday in an evaluation of EU water legislation that shows improved…
