Brussels, April 15 – A study released today by the European Commission [1] has been criticised for downplaying the costs of GMO contamination in the food sector. Friends of the Earth Europe says the document, which assesses the economic impacts of growing genetically modified (GM) crops, is fundamentally flawed. Estimates of the potential price of …
Task force must ban MEPs from taking industry jobs on the side
Brussels, April 11, 2011 – The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) has today written to the ten members of the European Parliament’s new working group on ethics and transparency reforms following the ‘cash-for-influence’ scandal. [1] ALTER-EU is calling on the MEPs in the group, led by Parliament president Buzek, to act with …
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EU maps out road to climate catastrophe
Two important climate and energy papers were released today by the European Commission in Brussels amid criticism from Friends of the Earth Europe. The environmental group argues that the proposals for how Europe might tackle climate change over the next 40 years show the EU is effectively abandoning its pledge to limit global warming to …
MEP lobbying scandal exposes urgent need for stricter rules
Brussels, 21 March 2011 – An alliance of transparency campaigners today urged a root and branch overhaul of ethics rules for MEPs, following the revelations published in UK newspaper, the Sunday Times (20 March) exposing how three MEPs were prepared to accept payments in return for tabling amendments in the European Parliament [1]. The Alliance …
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Agriculture ministers urged to wake up, and shake up new farming reforms
Brussels, March 17 – Friends of the Earth Europe is calling on European agriculture ministers to leave their entrenched positions and radically shake-up European agriculture – to make it greener, protect family farming and to reduce its impacts in southern countries. Ministers meet today to agree their first official response to proposals to reform the …
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Pressure mounts for EU clampdown on tar sands
Brussels, March 16, 2011 – The EU will today come under renewed pressure to effectively ban the world’s most climate polluting transport fuel from Europe. A coalition of environmental organisations has been campaigning for the European Union’s Fuel Quality Directive to address the significantly higher greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) resulting from tar sands oil, which …
