Environment

West Africa ‘on brink’ of major food crisis in wake of Ebola outbreak – UN expert

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Market stalls with little farm produce due to restrictions in movement in Ebola-affected...

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Environment Committee backs flexibility for EU countries to ban GMO crops

Long-awaited draft plans to allow EU member states to restrict, or ban, the cultivation of crops containing genetically modified organisms on their own territory even if it is allowed at EU level won the support of the Environment Committee on Tuesday...

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Parliament votes to give European countries legally solid right to ban GM cultivation

The European Parliament voted on a new law on national bans of genetically modified (GM) crops. The Parliament’s environment committee voted to amend the position agreed last June by ministers, which, according to Greenpeace, was riddled with legal...

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EP this week: Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Moldova agreement and passenger data

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MEPs have another busy week ahead of them

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