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Bees: MEPs call for reduction in use of pesticides to save Europe’s bees

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis - December 18, 2019

MEPs call on the Commission to beef up its Pollinators Initiative and to come up with new measures to protect bees and other pollinators. In...

Climate change: new rules agreed to determine which investments are green

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis - December 17, 2019

Parliament negotiators reached an agreement with Council on Monday on new criteria to determine whether an economic activity is environmentally sustainable. The so-called “taxonomy regulation”...

Hearing of Commissioner-designate Virginijus Sinkevičius: Forests, biodiversity and oceans governance

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis - October 3, 2019

The Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and Fisheries Committees questioned Virginijus Sinkevičius, candidate for the Environment and Oceans portfolio. Political groups’ coordinators and...

Left MEPs condemned Trade Commissioner for avoiding scrutiny over Amazon’s plight

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis - September 5, 2019

Left MEPs have condemned Trade Commissioner, Cecilia Malmström, for refusing to appear before the European Parliament’s Environment Committee to answer questions about the impact...

EU pushes for better protection of the world’s most threatened species

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis - August 15, 2019

The EU will join other parties at the 18th Conference of the Parties (CoP18) to the UN Convention on Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), starting in...

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