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Environment
4 bln Euro on the way
Bulgaria is faced with the challenge to assimilate as much funding as possible from two operational programmes financed by the EU that have the highest budget of the seven programmes in the country for 2007-2013,... [more]

Venus has high concentration of CO2, lightning, but no water
Despite radical differences, the climate of the planet Venus has a number of similarities to that of Earth, according to findings by the Venus Express probe the European Space Agency (ESA) presented to the press... [more]

German Chancellor Merkel warns EU on climate change legitimacy crisis
The European Union faces a “crisis of legitimacy” over the ambitious emission targets it has committed itself to, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a conference on sustainable development in Berlin November 27. Merkel criticised EU... [more]

Climate, WTO dominate 8th EU-India Summit
Climate change and trade issues dominated the 8th India-European Union summit in New Delhi November 30 with the leaders pledging to work together at the Bali climate change conference and the Doha round of world... [more]

EU “on track” for Kyoto targets
The European Union is within reach of its Kyoto Protocol targets to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases but warned of the need for “additional initiatives ... to ensure success,” according to the European Commission’s annual... [more]

Going green for transport means cutting the CO2 link
With so much attention being paid to carbon dioxide emissions by airplanes, Members of the European Parliament have turned their attention to other types of transportation, including cars, buses, trains, trucks and other vehicles.The parliament’s... [more]

Committee wants mandatory registration of lobbyists
The European Parliament Environment Committee has adopted its opinion on the “European Transparency Initiative,” which aims to increase transparency of the lobbying activities around European decision making.Rapporteur and Green MEP Claude Turmes of Luxembourg said:... [more]

The new approach to climate change is now innovation
If the European Union is serious about achieving the sort of climate change objectives it has set out for itself at this spring’s European Council, it must hammer out concrete policy options and binding targets,... [more]

Japanese in trouble with EU over whale hunting
The European Union is “deeply concerned” by Japan’s decision to launch a protracted whale hunt in the South Pacific for allegedly scientific purposes, officials said November 20. “Japan’s scientific whaling undermines international efforts to conserve... [more]

China rebuffs EU calls for binding emissions targets
Union calls to accept binding targets as part of international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, an EU parliamentary group said November 7. “Unlike the European Parliament, China believes that it will not be possible... [more]

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Editorial
The danger among us is galloping inflation
Last week’s Ecofin council of the 27 EU ministers of Economics concluded that inflation and less growth threaten the European economy. Of the two dangers, the ministers said recession is the more important threat. At... [more]

Energy Insider
Don’t Mess with Texas: Exxon’s tough play in Kashagan
At the end of 2006, when Shell was effectively forced to yield majority control over the huge Russia’s Sakhalin II field to Gazprom, Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer stood up at the press conference... [more]


The Balkan Line
A response to The Balkan Line: “Bosnia’s status quo finale”
I have read your article entitled Bosnia’s status quo finale (November 18th) by Elisabeth Maragoula, and would like to take this opportunity to clarify the position of the government of Republika Srpska (RS) on the... [more]


An American in Europe
Czar Putin has the EU backed into a cold corner
When the temperature hits below zero in Berlin, Paris, Prague, Rome, and throughout Europe – and you’re relying on Russia to provide much of the gas and oil that keeps you warm, and fuels your... [more]


Notebook
Cheap money comes - but how cheap?
The European Central Bank left its basic interest rate unchanged last week, despite the fact inflation showed its ugly face in November, with a flash estimate by Eurostat at 3.1 percent. At this point, it... [more]


Bylines & Interviews
In search of technologies for cleaner nature
By Professor Vladko Panayotov, MEP member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe (ALDE)
Kosovo independence fallout
interview with Joseba Azkarraga Rodero, Minister, Department of Justice, Employment and Social Security, Basque Country
State-building in Kosovo
By Elmar Brok, a member of Committee of Foreign Affairs of European Parliament
War on terror need not undermine Human Rights
By Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg
Some are making a better path for the disabled in Europe
interview with MEP Evangelia Tzampazi
Nuclear power has future
By Atanas Paparisov, member of the Group of Socialists in the European Parliament

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