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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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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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Make or break for OECD guidelines

In the first decade of this century, governments of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have been unable to protect workers, communities and the environment from harm caused by multinational corporations, concludes a new report from OECD Watch, released today. [1] The report “10 Years On” assesses the effectiveness of the OECD Guidelines …

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