Brussels, 23 June 2008 – As European farm ministers meet today Friends of the Earth Europe, Greenpeace and the European Farmers Coordination are stepping up calls for governments not to fall for biotech industry propaganda that genetically modified (GM) crops are a solution to the food and feed price crisis. Today’s European Agriculture Council comes …
One step forward, two steps back?
Brussels, 23 June 2008 – The voluntary EU lobby register launched today by the Commission is weak and unbalanced, said the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency (ALTER-EU). “The Commission started off over three years ago with worthy ideas for an EU lobby register, but the end product is proof that commercial lobbyists have excessive influence in …
Kyoto targets remain distant prospect for EU countries
Brussels, 18 June 2008 – Friends of the Earth Europe is demanding an urgent acceleration of action by governments to fight climate change after new data released today revealed that many European countries remain a long way off meeting their Kyoto targets. [1] The figures published by the European Environment Agency show that the 15 …
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Toyota zero emissions ad ruled misleading
Brussels, 17 June 2008 – An advert for the Toyota Prius in the European Voice newspaper which breached the European car labelling directive, has today been ruled misleading by the Belgian advertising standards authority. Friends of the Earth Europe’s car efficiency campaigner, Jeroen Verhoeven, filed a complaint against the advertisement which showed an image of …
EU waste policy not fit for future
Brussels, 17 June 2008 – Environmental NGOs are deeply disappointed with today’s European Parliament vote on the revised Waste Framework Directive. Parliament accepted a pre-arranged deal that sets inadequate European recycling targets and no target for waste prevention [1]. A number of MEPs made a last-ditch attempt to re-insert the Parliament’s original stronger targets [2], …
EU waste deal decimates recycling targets
Brussels, 4 June – The debate on recycling and prevention targets in the revision of the EU’s main waste directive has now entered a new stage, with a proposed deal at a third informal meeting between the Commission, Slovenian Presidency and a European Parliament delegation on Monday. The deal outlines very low and unenforceable recycling …
