Environment

Will France ban dumping of fishing nets in the war against marine litter?

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  France’s Environmental Champion   Ms. Ségolène Royal’s, France’s energy and environment minister, environmental credentials are impeccable.  Under her leadership, France is at the forefront of ambitious environmental measures, across the board from pesticides, chemicals and now marine litter.   Marine Litter   France is the first European Member State to take concrete steps to … Read more

The Environment Committee Keeping Control Of the Commission – Success in the Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation

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Environment Committee Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation 2015-2016 I have chosen the Environment Committee as it is the Committee I know best and it is still the, or one of the most, active legislative Committees in the European Parliament. It is, by some distance, still the most experienced legislative committee in the European Parliament in the … Read more

Will 2016 see the extinction of a mega environmental NGO?

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Change is Happening and it’s Happening Fast Reading the Financial Times each day you learn of old and established multinationals fighting for their commercial life. It is full of stories of new CEOs, or incumbents fighting for their job, who are embarking on another round of cost-cutting and job slashing. Just as once mighty firms … Read more

Where is Europe’s Environment Agenda?

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Where is the Environment? Today, 27 October 2015, the Commission published their Annual Work Plan. It is bare reading on the environment front. There is only one substantive legislative proposal, the re-tabling of the withdrawn circular economy package. It falls under the title ” A New Boost for Jobs, Growth and Investment”. It’s like the Environmental … Read more