Brussels, 15 February – EU Energy Ministers have missed a chance to guide Europe out of its dirty energy trap, Friends of the Earth Europe warned today. In their contribution to the proposed EU energy “Action Plan”, Ministers agreed to only weakly promote renewable energy and shied away from any concrete commitment to cut energy …
RegioScars 2009: EU billions earmarked for environmental devastation in central and eastern Europe
Brussels, Belgium, 16 February – ‘RegioScars’ awards for the most unsustainable spending of EU funds in Central and Eastern Europe were awarded today by CEE Bankwatch Network and Friends of the Earth Europe. The prizes went to two projects in the Czech Republic and Poland currently in line for support from EU regional aid, and …
Friends of the Earth Europe welcomes French ban on genetically modified maize
BRUSSELS (Belgium), 14 January 2008 – Friends of the Earth Europe has today welcomed an official ban on Monsanto’s controversial genetically modified maize, MON810, in France. The French government announced the ban on Friday evening using a clause in European law that allows countries to ban individual GMOs on health or environmental grounds to outlaw …
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Environment groups: MEPs must improve EU timber law
16 February 2009, Brussels – Tomorrow, members of the European Parliament’s environment committee will vote on crucial amendments to the Commission’s timber law proposal. The legislation aims to regulate the EU timber market and to tackle the problem of illegal logging, but Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and WWF strongly criticise the Commission’s original draft …
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Monsanto targets Europe’s maize
Brussels (Belgium) January 10, 2006 – US-based biotech giant, Monsanto, is aiming to genetically modify all of Europe’s maize over the next 4 years, reveals a new Friends of the Earth report released today. The report also concludes that in the ten years since the introduction of genetically modified (GM) foods in Europe, the biotech …
MEPs vote for European Recycling Society – and to cut our waste
Strasbourg, 13 February – Friends of the Earth Europe and the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) have welcomed a vote in the European Parliament today backing waste prevention and recycling as the key elements for dealing with waste in Europe. The environmental groups also congratulated MEPs for rejecting a misguided proposal to ‘re-brand’ incineration, which would …
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