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Former commissioner gets ready for climate change talks. Does anyone in Brussels remember Ritt Bjerregaard? She was European commissioner for the environment in 1995-99 and...

Brussels, 8 January 1998HAVING savagely criticised the practice of ‘emissions trading' prior to last month's international climate change conference in Kyoto, the European...

Brussels, 27 November 1997LESS than a week before the Kyoto climate change conference opens in Japan, Environment Commissioner Ritt Bjerregaard has issued a final blistering...

Brussels, 13 November 1997A FIERCE internal battle is still raging within the European Commission over updated rules for approving the use of genetically-modified products,...

Brussels, 25 September 1997The EU is turning up the heat on the rest of the industrialised world to follow its lead on measures to combat global warming. Environment...

Given the rate at which Environment Commissioner Ritt Bjerregaard is despatching spokesmen, we had better hope they are recyclable. John Iversen, the first one to leave,...

While the media hangs on every word uttered by Margot Wallström, nobody seems interested about what Sweden's previous commissioner has to say. Former justice chief Anita...

If anyone ever writes a film-script of Jim Currie's early years, do not be surprised if Martin Scorsese snaps up the rights, because the rags-to-riches tale of a young...

AN ANALYSIS of planned new EU rules aimed at improving the quality of the Union's waters drawn up by Council of Ministers lawyers has concluded that the proposed regulations...

Also in the 'where-are-they-now' file, former Environment Commissioner Ritt Bjerregaard is overseeing efforts to combat mad cow disease in her native country. Iron Lady...

TWO years ago, the European Union promised the world that it would get tough on global warming. In November 1997, as she emerged from a week of nightmarish United...

Academia beckons for several members of the outgoing Commission team who cleared their desks this week. Jacques Santer and Emma Bonino have already defected to the European...

Outgoing Environment Commissioner Ritt Bjerregaard thoroughly enjoyed the farewell serenade she was given by some members of her cabinet. Her political aides, who have got...

THE battle over moves towards an outright ban on the use of cadmium in batteries is hotting up, as European Commission environment officials and industry representatives lock...

MEPS will break new ground this autumn by demanding the same high levels of integrity from the incoming European Commissioners' 123 political aides as from the members of...

Incoming Commission President Romano Prodi's insistence that members of his team must appoint a chef de cabinet or deputy chef of a different nationality has been taken hard...

OUTGOING Environment Commissioner Ritt Bjerregaard has drawn up tough new proposals to set strict recycling and reuse targets for paper, glass and other kinds of packaging....

IN THE end, it looked a lot like last time. It is easy to forget in the wake of its embarrassing demise, but the European Commission team appointed nearly five years ago...

A NEW European Commission including five old faces and at least six women looks set to be unveiled after weeks of haggling between President-designate Romano Prodi and...

TALKS between Washington and the EU over how to cut world-wide emissions of greenhouse gases and reduce global warming are deadlocked once again. The issue dividing the two...