Menu
Search

Tag: oceans

Browse our exclusive articles!

Parliament seals ban on throwaway plastics by 2021

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis -
On Wednesday, Parliament approved a new law banning single-use plastic items such as plates, cutlery, straws and cotton buds sticks. According to the European Commission,...

President Tajani: We must act now or there will be more plastic than fish in our oceans

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis -
A high-level conference on the future of the oceans was held today in the European Parliament, attended by over 1200 political leaders, researchers and...

Warning: our oceans are warming fast

WORLD Theodoros Benakis -
Seawater temperature is rising faster than predicted, according to new research published in the journal Science on January 10. According to the study, sea levels...

Austria was big on tackling plastic but failed in dealing with agriculture pollution: EEB

AUSTRIA Theodoros Benakis -
An assessment of the performance of the Austrian Presidency of the EU has found that it was big on tackling plastic but less effective...

MEPs say bye-bye to single-use plastics

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis -
To clear up our oceans, the European Parliament on October 24 voted to ban widely-used, throw-away plastics such as straws and cotton buds. MEPs voted...
123Page 1 of 3

Popular

US interferes in Polish politics, cutting ties with Speaker of parliament over ‘insults’ against Trump

POLAND 0
The United States Ambassador to Poland has recently found...

Commission will enhance resilience to cyber-attacks on its central mobile infrastructure

CYBER-SECURITY 0
On 30 January, the European Commission's central infrastructure for...

Commission proposes further sanctions on Russian shipping and financial services

EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK 0
The European Union's executive branch has put forward a...

Commission increases submarine cable security in response to rising risks

EUROPEAN COMMISSION 0
Submarine data cables, which carry 99% of intercontinental internet...

Subscribe

European Interest is an online news and feature publication that covers political, social and cultural topics of European interest.

European Interest is a source available in Factiva, a leading business intelligence platform and renowned global collection of licensed news, web content and company data. Factiva has 33,000 sources from nearly every country worldwide, in 29 languages, and is owned by Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal.

Company

The latest

The Czech government leads the country into isolation, warns MEP Alexandr Vondra

CZECH REPUBLIC 0
Following the October 2025 elections, Andrej Babiš, leader of...

US interferes in Polish politics, cutting ties with Speaker of parliament over ‘insults’ against Trump

POLAND 0
The United States Ambassador to Poland has recently found...

Commission will enhance resilience to cyber-attacks on its central mobile infrastructure

CYBER-SECURITY 0
On 30 January, the European Commission's central infrastructure for...

Subscribe

© 2023 europeaninterest.eu. All rights reserved.