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Progress report on EU-wide nuclear checks, but green groups are critical of the tests. Stress tests on nuclear power plants are on track and have been conducted in a...

Greenpeace claims authorities complicit in abuse of subsidies and waste The Spanish fishing industry is guilty of abuse, illegal activity and waste, according to...

Policy adviser for Fisheries and Oceans Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the...

Journalist Guillermo Fariñas raises awareness of the plight of political prisoners. Guillermo Fariñas, a Cuban political dissident, is this...

Toxic chemical found in EU rivers. A toxic chemical that feminises fish and other marine life has been found above legal minimum levels in rivers in at least four EU member...

Greenpeace activists get too close for comfort. The last EU summit under the old rules may well be remembered more as the first summit with uninvited guests. In an...

Communications officer

Climate change demo poses as ministerial convoy. Demonstrators from the campaign group Greenpeace breached the security of the European Union summit on Thursday to stage...

Communications Officer Policy Adviser Sustainable Agriculture Executive Assistant Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change...

Activists arrested in Brussels after blocking exits from the Council of Ministers More than 300 Greenpeace activists have been arrested for blocking the exits to the Council...

Saskia Richartz, a Greenpeace campaigner, says her work is a valid represention of environmental concerns. On a dark December morning in 2007 around 200 people arrived at...

The European Commission's top environment official has said it should be up to member states to decide how they share the burden of targets to reduce carbon emissions from...

Environmentalists took an unusually long time to agree their position on the idea of an EU maritime policy. The huge scope of the maritime policy green paper made it harder...

The article 'Cloudy future over transparency initiative' (11-18 May), quoted a claim by Greenpeace that three Commission officials who had worked on the EU's chemicals...

A GREEK court yesterday (26 November) ordered the release of five anti-capitalists who are seriously ill on hunger strike. The five, two Spaniards, a Briton, a Syrian and a...

GREENPEACE has published a damning report claiming that little has changed in the six months since the Prestige disaster. While the environmental campaign group welcomes...

GREENPEACE is urging the EU to go to Johannesburg armed with stricter targets and to weigh in behind radical proposals to promote 'clean' energy. The environmental pressure...

GREENPEACE has labelled EU energy chief Loyola de Palacio the "dirty Commissioner" alleging she has been on a pro-nuclear and coal "crusade" since she took up office in...