Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
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| 1. Potočnik offers concessions on soil directive to get deal | March 15, 2010 |
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Ministers agree to halt biodiversity losses by 2020. Janez Potočnik, the European commissioner for the environment, said today that he was prepared to offer concessions to... |
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| 2. A sensible approach to soil policy | February 11, 2010 |
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The leaders of the EU's largest member states are undermining Europe's food security. Reports about the proposed soil directive getting stuck in Council of Ministers have... | |
| 3. What role for pesticides in sustainable agriculture? | October 14, 2008 |
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This conference is now over. A full report on the conference and additional material is available. |
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| 4. What role for sustainable agriculture? A conference report | October 14, 2008 |
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The European Parliament's environment committee is to vote on 5 November vote on a proposed EU-wide regulation on the placing of pesticides on the market. The proposal is... | |
| 5. The heat is on agriculture | July 31, 2008 |
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Drier weather is turning minds to water management and quality. Hotter, drier weather is one of the biggest problems facing Europe's countryside. Between 1976 and 2006 the... | |
| 6. Conservationists tell EU to drop biofuels target | April 3, 2008 |
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Green groups say that the EU should focus on sustainability instead of ‘volume targets'. A group of non-governmental groups (NGOs) will call on the EU to drop its target... |
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| 7. The slippery road forward | February 28, 2008 |
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The centrepiece of the EU's water legislation is not yet properly implemented, writes Jennifer Rankin. Water has always been part of the core business of the European... | |
| 8. Heatwave puts water in shade | February 28, 2008 |
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The fight against climate change has heightened concern about floods and drought. But, writes Jennifer Rankin, some of the steps taken to combat global warming might harm... | |
| 9. EU soil law wins lukewarm support | December 13, 2007 |
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Environment ministers are set to agree on Europe's first-ever directive on soil protection next week (20 December), but green campaigners warn that it does not go far enough... | |
| 10. Fragile limits of the natural world | May 24, 2006 |
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For the poet Alfred Tennyson, nature was "red in tooth and claw". For Dylan Thomas, it represented what was best about the world. Europe is still divided between those who... | |
| 11. Commission to unveil soil revival blueprint | May 18, 2006 |
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The European Commission is about to reveal its plans to clean up European soil, as the last of seven thematic strategies on the environment published over two years. The... | |
| 12. Commission wants switch to biofuels | January 26, 2006 |
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The European Commission is to promote the use of car fuel made from sugar beet and palm fruit, in a bid to reduce European dependence on oil. Fears over the reliability of... | |
| 13. Green strategies delayed as business agenda holds sway | November 24, 2005 |
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EU environmental policies are facing further delays, with three 'thematic strategies' off this month's European Commission agenda. Publication of strategies on waste... | |
| 14. Rural development is where the CAP fits | September 15, 2005 |
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Tony Blair's recent attack on the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) budget has reopened the debate about the future of agricultural policy just two years after the last... | |
