MOROCCO

Turn off taps on poachers: Financial crimes linked to illegal wildlife, timber trade in EU going unpunished, flags report

Criminal assets remaining in the hands of poachers, giving them the liberty to invest in more illicit operations

EU imposes emissions tax on airlines

It will hamper investment in technology to reduce emissions, says air transport association

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Bird-brained?

Beefy i-cards

The battle continues

Choking India's generics exports

European Parliament adopts nature restoration law

New law sets a target for the EU to restore at least 20 per cent of the EU’s land and sea areas by 2030

Parts of Germany will phase out coal-fired power by 2030, war in Ukraine notwithstanding: EU MP Matthias Ecke  

As a response to the natural gas crises, Germany has built LNG terminals near ports to import fuel from elsewhere, says Ecke

Halving pesticide use, dismantling dams: EU’s ambitious draft law to restore nature

The European Union has not been successful in halting the loss of biodiversity between 2011 and 2020

Twinning Europe and Asia in cyberspace

There are plenty of lessons for ASEAN to learn from the dynamics of the EU’s cyber regulations such as GDPR and e-IDAS and, use them to …

EU fines nine pharma companies for violating competition rules

Lundbeck pharma made other companies enter market late with generic versions of its drug citalopram

IN MURKY WATERS

EU and France hijacking Africa’s renewable energy initiative, allege civil society groups

19 projects have been approved without meeting the basic principles of the renewable energy initiative

How will Brexit impact environmental policy in the UK?

If UK decides to leave the EU, experts fear it would lead to dilution of the EU’s stringent laws, making the environment vulnerable to …

Aid package not enough, say Europe’s struggling farmers

The EU has announced a $560-million support package for farmers hit by Russia’s import ban

€3.7 billion fund created to promote bio-based industries in EU

Fund raised through public-private partnership aims to create jobs in rural regions, and offer Europeans new and sustainable products sourced …

Buckled together in a free-trade belt

Negotiators have paved the way for the ratification of NAFTA, which overshadows both the EC and the ASEAN in terms of economic clout

EU may impose anti-dumping duties on Chinese solar panels

Move follows investigation into complaint by industry association; provisional duties may be imposed as early as June

Scramble for the Sahel — why France, Russia, China and the United States are interested in the region

Military takeovers have been a major source of concern in the region and beyond in the last few years

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Europe’s Kafkaesque progress on climate action

The European Green New Deal is a pale imitation of the American original

European Commission comes out with draft policy on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs)

Policy defines EDCs and lays out basis for legislation on them

Intel CPU corrupt

About 29 million ‘dirty’ diesel cars and vans ply on Europe’s roads

Not a single diesel car complies with the Euro 6 air pollution limits when tested on the road