“This morning I told the Labour and Green Left parties that I would love to be a candidate to lead them in the next elections,” Frans Timmermans said Thursday. This makes official what had been rumored since the end of last year and had become concrete since the resignation of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte […]
The Left Party is putting up refugee aid worker and nautic captain Carola Rackete and physician Gerhard Trabert, among others, as top candidates for the 2024 European elections. This was announced by the party on Monday.The two non-partisan candidates are running in the promising list positions 2 and 4. The move is the left’s response […]
Despite criticism, the European Commission will not reconsider Commission Vice-President Margrethe Vestager’s decision to appoint US economist Fiona Scott Morton as senior competition economist in the Competition Directorate General. The college had approved the proposal, so it saw no reason to reconsider the decision, a commission spokeswoman said Friday. French ministers and the leaders of […]
The development and environmental NGO Germanwatch is calling on the European Union to adhere to the recommendations of the EU’s Scientific Climate Advisory Council for the 2040 climate target. The panel’s proposal for a CO2 reduction target of 90 to 95 percent by 2040 is heading in the right direction, it said. “It is ambitious, […]
Tomorrow, July 15th, marks the first “EU Day for the victims of the global climate crisis“. The day was chosen because two years ago, on July 14th and 15th, 2021, a devastating flood catastrophe engulfed large parts of Western Europe, claiming the lives of over 220 people. It is intended as a memorial day for […]
The European Parliament on Tuesday adopted the trilogue results of two fit-for-55 bills. Firstly, MEPs approved the rules for alternative fuels (Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Regulation, AFIR) by a large majority. Second, new rules for cleaner marine fuels (FuelEU Maritime) were adopted.Ships with a gross tonnage of more than 5,000 will have to reduce their greenhouse […]
Next week (12 July), the EU Parliament will vote on the Nature Restoration Law. For weeks, the Commission proposal has been accompanied by numerous controversies. The Christian Democrats of the EPP are in favor of rejecting the proposal altogether and maintained this position in all relevant parliamentary committees.The EPP says it fears for two things: […]
The Commission presented a proposal for a soil monitoring directive for the first time on Wednesday. The new law requires member states to collect data on soil health. As previously disclosed, the proposal contains no binding targets or limit values, only monitoring obligations.It is thus not a soil protection law as announced by the Commission […]
EU legislation contains significant gaps and does not address all causes of soil degradation. That is what the Commission writes in its proposal for a new directive on soil health in Europe. A draft is available to Table.Media. 60 to 70 percent of soils in the EU are in poor health, it says – with […]
The EU Commission will present the second part of its Green Deal nature protection package this week. Planned are a new soil health law, a regulation on plants produced with new genomic techniques, the revision of the EU Waste Framework Directive with regard to food and textile waste, and the revision of legislation on seeds.The […]