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MEPs will debate how to increase capacity and improve delivery of COVID-19 vaccines with pharmaceutical companies and Commissioners Breton and Kyriakides. On Thursday, Members of the Public Health (ENVI) and Industry (ITRE) committees will hear from representatives of the pharmaceutical industry involved in developing, manufacturing and deploying the EU’s portfolio of vaccines against COVID-19. When: […]

If efforts to reform the Energy Charter Treaty do not bear fruit, Europe must urgently consider exiting the agreement, write Pascal Canfin and Anna Cavazzini.

AN MEP has claimed the European Union is beating the UK in terms of the share of the population being vaccinated with two Covid doses - despite the chaotic rollout led by chief Ursula von der Leyen.

Lawmakers in the European Parliament on Friday (5 February) backed a levy on carbon-intensive products imported into Europe, calling on the European Commission to introduce a so-called “carbon border adjustment mechanism” as quickly as possible. In a resolution adopted on Friday (5 February), the European Parliament’s environment committee emphasised the need for the levy to be WTO-compatible and introduced no later than 2023. “A carbon border adjustment mechanism should cover all impor...

This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. Parliament’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee calls for a fact-based approach to the EU vaccines rollout to avoid disinformation. In order to respond to European citizens’ growing concerns, data on the number of vaccine doses supplied and on the vaccination schedules for each country must be transparent and provided on a monthly basis until the summer, say MEPs of the Environment, Public Health ...

Parliament’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee has urged EU countries to be transparent about their COVID-19 supplies

Parliament’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee calls for a fact-based approach to the EU vaccines rollout to avoid disinformation.

By Mathias Alencastro RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - One of the main allies of French president Emmanuel Macron on the environmental area, European Parliament deputy Pascal Canfin, 46, says that the continents market for Brazilian products that contribute to deforestation will be progressively closed. "Brazil cant figure on the international scene as the country that doesnt want to cooperate. It would be a terrible economic decision," says Canfin. Member of Republique En Marche, Macron . . . To read ...

[uam_ad id="317182"] RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The French government will not endorse the association agreement between the European Union and MERCOSUR unless it includes guarantees that increased trade will not result in increased deforestation, French Trade Minister Franck Riester said on Friday, January 29th. The statement came the same week that the President of the European Parliament Environment Committee, also French Pascal Canfin, rejected the agreement: "The Parliament has no intention...

– German Federal Minister of Finance Olaf Scholz.    Top Story: Could the oft-beset talks at the OECD on an international regime for digital taxation actually bear fruit? This week the signs have been positive for a potential agreement. Podcast: The EU is deploying military drone technology to survey migrants and refugees at Europe’s external borders. How ethical are such practices? This week I speak to an MEP who has taken the lead in making this a frontline issue. Listen here. Don’t m...