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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...

Recycling rates for waste electrical and electronic equipment vary across the member states. The European Union should aim to recycle up to three-quarters of some types of...

Cathrine Ashton to brief MEPs at next week's mini-plenary. The European Union's response to the political upheaval in Tunisia and a debate on this month's European Council...

Pressure forces Commission to delay, redraft and re-label paper on commodities. The European Commission is acceding to French demands to rewrite a strategy paper on food...

Committee to vote for more recycling but divisions over plans to penalise firms. Europe's unwanted toasters, televisions and tumble dryers are in MEPs' sights, as the...

British MEP says draft legislation is not enough to prevent illegal timber from entering the EU Caroline Lucas, a UK Green MEP, has called for a ban on the imports of...

A look at what is being done to reduce the amount of electronic waste. The EU directives on the recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and on...

MEPs split over emissions aid offered to industries; Parliament committee to vote on plan next week. A group of MEPs is making a last-ditch attempt to block the special help...

The financial crisis is an opportunity to develop an economic framework with long-term benefits for the environment. Looking back on last year's main topic of discussion –...

Some of the European Parliament's long-timers are heading for the door. The centre-right EPP-ED group in the European Parliament might be a bit more harmonious and less...

The European Parliament will send its largest-ever delegation to a UN climate change conference. In total, 36 MEPs will head to Poznań, of whom 15 will go as the official...

Financial unrest is leading some politicians and business to call for a re-think of the EU's environmental pledges. The political weather has changed dramatically since...

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

Emergency meeting highlights depth of divisions over demands placed on European industry. The centre-right EPP-ED group in the European Parliament is in disarray over how...

Package's impact on industry and consumers particularly concerns German deputies. German centre-right MEPs are trying to delay negotiations over the EU's proposed climate...

Committed to consulting with all – except Lady Nicotine. Although tobacco is grown in several EU member states, it is three southern countries, Greece, Bulgaria and Italy,...

Please find an excuse for my Mercedes. It's not really surprising but Karl-Heinz Florenz (pictured), the German centre-right MEP who drafted the temporary committee on...

European Parliament backs a report that calls for tougher environmental targets and for more research into biofuels. Current efforts to combat climate change must be...

An increase in the use of transport vehicles could undermine efforts to reduce CO2 pollution. The scope of the EU emissions trading scheme (ETS) covers the sectors that...

The European Parliament announced yesterday (5 March) that Avril Doyle, an Irish centre-right MEP, will draft its opinion on the revision of the EU's emissions trading...