German Environment Agency president Dirk Messner talks to ENDS Europe about the need for a more thoughtful approach to streamline EU green rules, amid a perennial succession of urgent European ...

MEPs have endorsed a request to seek an EU court opinion on the recently signed trade deal with the Mercosur bloc ahead of ...

The Bulgarian government has been ordered to pay €1.5 million and a daily fine of €9,000 for not transposing revised EU renewable energy rules despite a series of legal warnings.

More than a dozen environment and climate-related bills – including three intended to transpose the requirements of flagship ...

In what has been hailed as a “milestone moment”, wind and solar produced more electricity in the EU than fossil fuels for the first time last year, a new report from Ember says.

Member states will be required to draw up “aggregated baseline” permits to streamline impact assessments for manufacturing ...

The EU’s environment chief has indicated that the European Commission may not follow through on plans to swiftly revise REACH ...

A global treaty establishing a framework to protect biodiversity in international waters, which entered into international law this weekend, has been hailed as “a beacon of hope for the ocean and ...

Heads of the European Parliament’s political groups will have to decide whether to give the industry committee a say in drawing up negotiating positions on a number of big green proposals, ENDS Europe ...

The European Parliament’s environment committee has approved a deal reached in trilogue setting a climate target for 2040 with 50 votes for, 26 against and one abstention.

Competition officials from the European Commission have opened an investigation into the legality of a multi-million euro compensation award against the Bulgarian government over changes to its solar ...

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has faced a backlash after signing the EU-Mercosur trade agreement this weekend, including two motions from MEPs requesting a court opinion on the ...