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Environment committee votes against allowing ‘now contains X% less' claims on food packaging. The European Parliament's environment committee today (31 January) rejected a...

Czech MEPs questioned over share transfers. The European Parliament's rules on declarations of interest have been called into question by a controversy over two MEPs'...

The European Union's efforts to protect the natural world beyond its borders will be on display next week, but will also be criticised for a lack of ambition. Janez...

Italian Mario Mauro likely to head foreign-affairs committee. German MEPs are tipped to chair three of the most powerful legislative committees in the next European...

First-reading agreement in Parliament unlikely; economic crisis 'has changed public priorities'. One of the European Parliament's chief negotiators on the climate package...

Greens and left-wing MEPs manage to keep target for 2020 reduction. An influential committee of MEPs voted on 1 September to give carmakers more time to reduce carbon...

Centre-right and Socialist MEPs have put the interests of industry above those of citizens' safety with their stance on the new chemicals labelling rules. It was a sorry...

The environment committee has put forward common-sense amendments to proposed chemical labelling rules that will help consumers and suppliers alike. The goal of the Globally...

A full-day European Voice policy conference examining water in scarcity and excess; water quality; the business of water; public/private service.

Polish centre-right MEP Janusz Lewandowski was a casualty of the successful push by his compatriot, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, to dislodge Elmar Brok from the chairmanship of the...

A row between the EU institutions is threatening to end up in court as the European Commission this week struggled to explain to MEPs why 50 pieces of legislation had not...

Tamsin Rose, Donal Walshe and others in the letter ‘MEPs must demand more on health claims' (European Voice, 19-25 May) wrongly assert that, on the issue of the Nutrition...

We represent a coalition of European health and consumer groups concerned about the vote next Wednesday (25 May) in the European Parliament on the regulation on health and...

THE MEP preparing the internal market and consumer protection committee's position on chemical legislation REACH has drafted changes to the way chemicals are registered under...

EXAMINATION by the European Parliament of plans to overhaul chemicals regulation has been thrown into uncertainty as a result of the elections. The proposal from the...

THE EU's controversial chemicals policy reform will be “sent back to the drawing board” before it even gets through a first reading in the European Parliament, a...

THE European Parliament's powerful environment committee has won a battle to retain most of its powers during the assembly's next five-year term. It had been under threat of...

THE European Commission has denied accusations that it is trying to weaken rules on the accidental contamination of food with genetically modified organisms (GMOs). MEP...

WHEN Caroline Jackson strode up to chair the European Parliament's environment, health and consumer protection committee for the first time last July, she could have been...

FIERCE arguments over whether to hold the makers of genetically modified goods responsible for the safety of their products have split the European Parliament ahead of a...