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Brussels, March 15 – Friends of the Earth Europe warmly welcomes the ambitious targets on biodiversity policy after 2010 announced at today’s Environment Council, which it says are major steps towards saving biological diversity at the European and global level. The EU has adopted the ambitious target of “halting the loss of biodiversity and the …
Ambitious targets reflect urgent need to tackle biodiversity lossRead more
Brussels (Belgium), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Lagos (Nigeria), February 13 – Genetically Modified (GM) crops have led to a massive increase in pesticide use and have failed to increase yields or tackle world hunger and poverty, a new report by Friends of the Earth reveals today. [1] The report coincides with the annual release of biotech …
NEW REPORT: GM crops increase pesticide use and fail to alleviate povertyRead more
Brussels, 14 June 2004 – The twenty five member states of Europe will vote this week for the first time on a Genetically Modified (GM) food. A European Union (EU) regulatory committee will decide on Wednesday 16th June 2004, whether to allow the import of a Monsanto GM oilseed rape, called GT73, that has been …
Brussels, March 21st – The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU (ALTER-EU) welcomes the European Commission’s second Communication on the European Transparency Initiative as an important step in the right direction. But given the global relevance of the EU and the influence of organised lobby groups on EU policies, the voluntary …
Brussels, 23 April 2009 – A shared transparency register and code of conduct for lobbyists proposed by the European Parliament and Commission [1] will fail to shed more light on lobbying in Brussels transparency campaigners warned today. The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) welcomes the principle of a joint register but believes …
Brussels, 11 March 2010 – Almost two years after the European Commission launched a voluntary lobby transparency register, sixty per cent of EU lobbying consultancies are still not registered, a survey published today by the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) reveals. [1] The group has called on EU officials, including the responsible …
