Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Eurogroup For Animals" produced 23 items.
| 1. Commission considers new animal welfare rules | January 19, 2012 |
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Initiative may not win full support from animal rights groups. The European Commission is weighing up whether to propose dedicated EU legislation on animal welfare, according... | |
| 2. Reasons to ban cloning | February 24, 2011 |
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If the Commission has a list of reasons against GM crops, it should have one for animal cloning. We read with great interest that the European Commission is proposing to... |
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| 3. Forging links between Brussels and Brussels | January 28, 2010 |
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Delphine Bourgeois on how her career took her from campaigning for animal welfare to writing a primer on the EU. Brussels may be Europe's capital, but that does not mean its... |
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| 4. Juncker re-appointed as Eurogroup president | January 18, 2010 |
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Luxembourg's prime minister announces creation of Eurogroup secretariat. |
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| 5. Movers & shakers | July 2, 2009 |
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| 6. Vetting shows European zoos in poor condition | November 11, 2008 |
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Animal-welfare group says many European zoos are failing to meet standards that are already too low and too vague. Animals in zoos across Europe are being kept in conditions... | |
| 7. Will the Commission think twice? | November 6, 2008 |
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Ahead of next week's debate on cloning, scientific and moral questions remain unanswered. The EU has spent the last decade locked in a stalemate on the safety of genetically... |
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| 8. Ban on tests on great apes proposed | November 5, 2008 |
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Commission seeks to limit animal testing; animal-welfare group urges more spending on alternatives.
Great apes – such as chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans –... | |
| 9. Ban on primate testing opposed | October 30, 2008 |
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Research commissioner seeks exemption to ban; animal welfare groups deplore slow progress. A dispute over banning great apes from scientific research will come to a head on... | |
| 10. Majority of Europeans against animal cloning | October 9, 2008 |
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An overwhelming majority of Europeans share the concerns of ethicists and the European Parliament.
The vast majority of Europeans are against using cloned animals for... | |
| 11. Commission proposes new animal slaughter rules | September 18, 2008 |
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EU executive says revisions to 1993 rules should limit the distress and pain inflicted on animals.
All slaughter houses in Europe will have to comply with stricter... | |
| 12. EU scientists express doubts about animal cloning | July 24, 2008 |
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Cloned animals do not pose known health risks, but are themselves very unhealthy, review finds.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has said that meat from... | |
| 13. Good news for Europe's animals? | July 3, 2008 |
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Animal welfare has been on the EU's agenda for more than 30 years. But conditions for Europe's animals have only recently started to improve. Most of the European Union's... |
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| 14. Replacing, reducing and refining animal experiments | July 3, 2008 |
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Causing a minimum of pain and distress has become the guiding principle of animal testing. In 1959 William Russell and Rex Burch, in a paper entitled ‘The Principles of... |
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| 15. France plans to boost Eurogroup | May 29, 2008 |
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Christine Lagarde, the French finance minister, is to present proposals to strengthen the role of the Eurogroup during France's presidency of the Council of Ministers, which... | |
| 16. Policy departs from ‘brilliant' roadmap | September 6, 2007 |
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Plans for animal health policy for 2007-13 have upset campaigners. Sonja Van Tichelen, director of Eurogroup, which campaigns for the protection and well-being of animals,... | |
| 17. The EU and animal welfare | July 6, 2006 |
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Over the years there has been a gradual evolution in Europe towards better standards and policy on animal welfare. Hand-in-hand with changes in farming and attitudes to... | |
| 18. Union's aspirations collide with global realities | February 24, 2005 |
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It is in the area of trade policy that the EU's aspirations to improve animal welfare collide most dramatically with the realities of commerce in a global marketplace. The... | |
| 19. New animal transport time limit under fire | July 10, 2003 |
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ANIMALS could not be transported for more than nine hours at a stretch under a draft law due to be adopted by the European Commission next week. But the new rules, seen by... | |
| 20. Call for action on vet checks | September 14, 2000 |
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ANIMAL rights campaigners are urging the European Commission to clamp down on member states which fail to carry out mandatory veterinary checks on domestic pets imported for... | |
