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Tag Archives: Public Health and Food Safety,Health and Environment
ALDE Group calls for a strengthened EU biodiversity protection.
The European Parliament has today adopted by a large majority recommendations in order to meet the objectives included in the EU’s biodiversity strategy 2010-2020. The EU Birds and Habitats Directives have contributed significantly to pro…
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Car approval: shake-up of EU rules welcome
Liberal and Democrat politicians have this morning welcomed a proposal that will shake up the rules on authorising new models of cars, aimed at delivering reform to ensure closer controls are put in place for the European market, followin…
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VW scandal: European Parliament set to agree Committee of Inquiry
A majority of the political Group leaders in the European Parliament have today reached a political agreement to set up an inquiry committee, which could last up to 12 months, to investigate alleged contraventions of European Union law an…
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Dieselgate: MEPs to reject EU Government’s weak diesel test rules
This evening at around 19.30h, MEP’s on the Environment Committee of the European Parliament are expected to vote to oppose an agreement by EU Governments setting out revised emissions tests, in the wake of the fraud by Volkswagen and oth…
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Circular economy: Timmermans’ rubbishes EU waste targets
The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe have today expressed their disappointment with the decision by Vice President of the European Commission, Commissioner Timmermans to re-table a much less ambitious proposal on the circular economy, after he chose to scrap draft laws supported by the European Parliament earlier this year. The European Commission’s revised proposal, which set waste and incineration targets, will outline weaker final recycling targets than its predecessor and it appears that the Commission has done some clever reshuffling.
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Volkswagen scandal: Liberals and Democrats call for a Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry – Revelations published today show former Liberal Commissioner Janez Potocnik highlighted concerns about manipulation as early as 2013 –
Liberals and Democrats in the European Parliament are tonight calling for a Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry to be launched into the Volkswagen scandal, following the publication today by the Financial Times of internal Commission docum…
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Wildlife Crime: EU leads largest ever international clampdown – ALDE pushes for EU Action Plan against Wildlife Crime –
Liberal and Democrat MEP’s Gerben – Jan Gerbrandy and Catherine Bearder have congratulated Europol and law enforcement agencies across the EU for conducting the biggest ever international operation against the illegal wildlife trade.
Oper…
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Biofuels: EU adopts final agreement
The European Parliament has today adopted the final EU compromise on the directive relating to the biofuels and indirect land-use change (“ILUC”). The main purpose of the draft directive is to start the transition from conventional biofu…
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MEPs back targets to slash plastic bag use
MEPs have today agreed new binding targets today to cut plastic bag use in the EU by 80% by 2025. Up to 200 plastic bags are thrown away every year by the average European, most of them after having been used only once.
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EU Ebola screening only part of the solution
Charles Goerens MEP, who was recently selected as the European Parliament’s Rapporteur for Ebola, has reacted to today’s proposal for an Ebola summit of EU Health Ministers this Thursday:
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