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MEPs vote for energy market reform but fail to reject gas

Members of the EU Parliament’s energy committee have supported reform of energy markets to restrict subsidies for dirty fossil fuel power plants, but failed to reject new gas infrastructure, in two important votes on climate and energy today. (1) Hope for Europe’s energy system The energy committee (ITRE) voted on rules to govern Europe’s electricity …

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Civil society set out demands at EU-Indonesia trade negotiations

The next round of negotiations for a free trade agreement between the EU and Indonesia start today in Solo, Indonesia. Civil society organisations from Europe and Indonesia, including Friends of the Earth Europe and Friends of the Earth Indonesia, will meet in parallel to discuss the consequences of a potential agreement. Friends of the Earth Europe …

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NGOs call for tougher sustainable finance action

Friends of the Earth Europe, ActionAid and Global Witness have welcomed the EU’s latest action on sustainable finance, but warned that tougher action is needed to ensure that Europe’s financial sector includes robust regulatory safeguards. “Although there are some positive proposals in this report, it is significantly less ambitious than we had hoped,” explains Anne …

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Commission issues €200m new subsidies for fossil fuels

The European Commission today announced new subsidies for fossil fuels, with nearly €200 million for gas projects, as part of a larger package of energy investments for 2018. This new pledge takes the total financing for fossil fuel infrastructure under the EU’s flagship fund for energy infrastructure, the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), to over €1.3 …

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ECJ opens back door to new GMOs

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) today gave the first indication of how it will classify foods and crops derived from new genetic engineering techniques. The opinion issued by one of the ECJ’s Advocates General noted that even if all food and crops derived from new GM techniques were to be considered genetically modified organisms …

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