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Buzzing off: the EU and the honey bee

By ⋅ November 25, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

For many the death of honey bees seems like an unimportant matter. I'll readily admit that to me the death of bees ranked somewhere between the death of a dialect in Tanganyika and the death of one of my blobs of ice-cream that fell on the hot concrete in August of 1989. I thought 'they're [...]

How green do we go?

By ⋅ July 9, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Call it post-election annihilation. Or maybe we were too concentrated to catch the new MEPs in the corridors to be able to notice anything else. The fact is, the ‘Green week’ of the European Parliament passed relatively unnoticed, if it was not for a Green official that made me test the ecopassenger tool, a very [...]

For your information, I have a question: how much is a light bulb worth?

By ⋅ February 20, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

Climate change, saving energy and economic crisis are the hottest and sexiest topics in Europe at the moment. Every week we are writing articles about EU policies and the debates held by the European Parliament on how to solve the current crisis or which policies are the best ones.

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