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Talks to be held in Beijing and New Delhi. Talks in the coming days between the European Union's leadership and Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister, and Wen Jiabao,...

Decision will allow EU producers to compete on even-footing with New World winemakers. Wine producers in the EU will be able to label their products as “organic wine”...

Commission warns of new challenge in European Court of Justice. The European Commission is preparing to refer Italy to the European Court of Justice for a second time if it...

Target rate for waste collection to rise over seven years. New rules for the collection and treatment of electronic waste (WEEE) will gradually go into effect over the next...

EU environmental policy is one of the casualties of Greece's austerity drive. Behind the depressingly familiar street demonstrations beamed almost nightly from Greece are...

Economists fail to appreciate adequately that people are fundamentally social creatures. Modern macroeconomics often seems to treat rapid and stable economic growth as the...

Collection rate to rise to 85% by 2019. National governments yesterday approved a deal on legislation to increase the recovery of electronic waste.

Court says inclusion of non-EU airlines in emissions trading scheme is compatible with international law. The European Court of Justice today ruled that plans to include...

Economic and environmental recovery must go hand in hand – and we need to act now, writes a leading European businessman. Given the fragility of the economic recovery and...

EU seeks to limit the emissions from cars. Lower emissions from cars may be achieved from improvements that cost little or nothing, a study conducted for the European...

The EU should help farmers turn agricultural residues into a profitable resource. Europe's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has long suffered from two chronic problems:...

Better land management could take the heat out of debate about the impact of biofuel on food production. The principal challenge today for the bioenergy industry is how to...

Rich countries have pledged vast sums to help the world's poor deal with the effects of climate change, but the talk is often not backed up with action. The world's poorest...

When it comes to making the transport sector pay for its emissions, there are significant differences between aviation and shipping. There is a key difference between ships...

Development plan is good news, but there must be action. The ‘agenda for change' announced on 14 October by Andris Piebalgs, the European commissioner for development, is...

Funding to governments set to decrease. The European Commission wants to concentrate development aid on fewer recipient countries and to attach more conditions to the aid...

Council and Parliament differ on how much waste should be collected and recycled. MEPs and member states are likely to find themselves at odds over plans to toughen and...

Commission urged to take account of indirect land-use change when assessing fuel emissions. A group of scientists and economists has called on the EU to recognise the...

Including airlines based outside the EU in emissions trading scheme 'is compatible' with international law. The European Union is allowed to include airlines from non-EU...

The Commission must take action on rare-earth elements. Dirk Jan van den Berg and Erik Offerman are right in highlighting the precarious situation regarding Europe's supply...