Environment

The Environment Committee Keeping Control Of the Commission – Success in the Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation

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Environment Committee Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation 2015-2016 I have chosen the Environment Committee as it is the Committee I know best and it is still the, or one of the most, active legislative Committees in the European Parliament. It is, by some distance, still the most experienced legislative committee in the European Parliament in the … Read more

Will 2016 see the extinction of a mega environmental NGO?

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Change is Happening and it’s Happening Fast Reading the Financial Times each day you learn of old and established multinationals fighting for their commercial life. It is full of stories of new CEOs, or incumbents fighting for their job, who are embarking on another round of cost-cutting and job slashing. Just as once mighty firms … Read more

Where is Europe’s Environment Agenda?

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Where is the Environment? Today, 27 October 2015, the Commission published their Annual Work Plan. It is bare reading on the environment front. There is only one substantive legislative proposal, the re-tabling of the withdrawn circular economy package. It falls under the title ” A New Boost for Jobs, Growth and Investment”. It’s like the Environmental … Read more

Has Juncker Junked Europe’s Environmental Policy?

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  President’s Juncker European Commission is accused of downgrading Europe’s environmental agenda. Green 10, a broad coalition of environmental NGOs, criticise him  (see their letter of 12 September 2014 here), for: For the first time in 25 years there will be no fully empowered Commissioner for the Environment Sustainability seems to have disappeared from EU priorities … Read more