The new NGO Forum project has come to a close in December 2008. Since its beginning in 2005, the new NGO Forum has provided valuable information and served as a means of establishing contacts between civil society in accession and pre-accession count...
On 16 July DG TREN of the European Commission has opened a public internet consultation on sustainability criteria for biomass.
To find all details about this consultation, please go to the followin...
The next session of the Council of the European Union is taking place in Brussels on 22 July 2008. For the agenda of this meeting, please follow the link.
From 1 July France is taking over the EU presidency for the next six months. For more information please follow the link.
European Environmental Bureau(EEB) has issued its Ten Green Tests to the inco...
On 5 March the European Commission adopted the Communication on Western Balkans: Enhancing the European perspective COM(2008)127 where it highlighted new initiatives and enhanced existing ones to supp...
The new issue of ENLARGEMENT Newsletter has been published on 13 March 2008. In the issue you can find articles about the EU ties with the Western Balkans, accession negotiations with Croatia, EU poli...
Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU as of 1 January 2007. Marking one year in the Union some of the 35 Romanian and 18 Bulgarian MEPs were asked to share their impressions of the first year of EU membe...
General Affairs and External Relations Council takes place on 28 and 29 January 2008. One of the issues discussed was about Western Balkans which you will find in attachment.
Slovenia
is the first from the New Member States to take over the six months EU
presidency fas of January 1, 2008. The five main priorities of the Slovenian
presidency are:
the future o...
On 22 October, the Open Society Institute in Brussels organised a roundtable discussion on the development of Kosovo’s energy
sector and in particular the installation of new high-capacity power plan...
"The new Treaty of Lisbon was born today. This is a European victory" said the president of the Council of the European Union José Sócrates while announcing the agreement among European leaders on the...
On 1 July Portugal will take over EU Presidency for the next six months. During that period it plans to step up efforts to get the new Treaty in place as soon as possible. Portugese Presidency also pl...
The European Commission has just launched another consultation round on sustainability aspects of biofuels. This follows the European Commission proposals from 10 January 2007 for a new Energy Polic...
In September 2006 the Council of the European Union laid down the following in its amended Rules of Procedure: "Every 18 months, the three Presidencies due to hold office shall prepare, in close coope...
On 18 April, the European Commission has adopted the Green Paper launching the public consultation on the Regulation (EC)1049/2001 on public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission docum...
Dear All, As you already know, the Belgrade Conference within the Environment for Europe process will take place in October, 2007, where an NGO-Ministerial round table will be organised joint...
Almost at the end of its EU Presidency Finland has sent out a positive signal for the European constitutional project by ratifying the treaty with an overwhelming majority. Currently 18 states, includ...
The Europa Newsletter is issued every two weeks and features information on issues relating to the European Union, new developments on EU websites and forthcoming EU events and activities. To receive...
In a new report presented on 12 July, the U.S.-based Worldwatch Institute confirms that the world is getting richer but also hotter and at the price of ecological degradation. For Euractiv article, p...
European Union foreign ministers are meeting in Luxembourg at their General Affairs and External Relations Council on June 12 - 13th, 2006. Among the main results of the Council are: * an agreement o...
"Biodiversity is, quite literally, the basis of life" - says the Director General of the DG Environment Mogens Peter Carl in an interview with Euractiv on the day of opening of the Green Week 2006. Th...
The European Investment Bank (EIB)together with four other financial institutions have signed the Declaration "endorsing and reinforcing the European consensus on the values attached to the fundamenta...
The Central Finance and Contracts Unit (CFCU) at the Ministry of Finance is seeking proposals for raising the capacity of the civil society by enhancing its participation in the accession process, pro...
Ecological Movement of the City of Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro has announced its IV International ECO-Conference on Safe Food which will take place on September 20 - 23, 2006 in Novi Sad. For mor...
The new issue of the Stability Pact Watch Bulletin has been published recently. In this issue you can read the following: * South-east Europe faces a bleak future as the EU's '...
DECLARATION ON ENVIRONMENTAL COHESION OF WESTERN BALKANS AS THE TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Dear representatives of citizens in Western Balkan and SEE region, as well supporters in the o...
A new online map of energy projects in South-east Europe, put together by Stability Pact Watch, shows how the region is being turned into a fossil fuel transit corridor and a source of dirty energy fo...
Collective initiative of Tirana Municipality and EDEN Center "To take care of our planet - the Earth" will take place in Tirana on April 21st, 2006. Other cooperators and participants: Credins Bank (...
The aim of this service is to provide new scientific results in the field of top priority environmental issues. Addressed to policy-makers and the wider public, this service is designed to promote &nd...
The new report of the European Environment Agency/EEA "Transport and environment: facing a dilemma" launched today, shows that more goods and passengers are being transported farther and more frequent...
Report "Integration of environment into EU agriculture policy" prepared by the European Environment Agency(EEA) aims to provide a fair reflection of the progress, the achievements and obstacles in the...
This and other questions were tackled at the conference organised by European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), European Environmental Bureau (EEB) and Platform of European Social NGOs (Social Platfor...
As a follow-up to the Communication on Industrial Policy of October 2005, the European Commission has launched a new High Level Group (HLG) on Competitiveness, Energy and the Environment. Over the nex...
Foreign Ministers from the EU 25 are meeting today and tomorrow for the External and General Affairs Council. Conclusions adopted today, among others, are on the Western Balkans. For more, please ch...
Today the General Affairs Council adopted the regulation establishing financial support for the economic development of the Turkish Cypriot community which has been under negotiation since July 2004. ...
This year's Green Week will take place from May 30th to June 2nd in Brussels and will direct the spotlight on four main components of our endeavour to halt biodiversity loss: * biodiversity a...
The aim of this study, prepared by independent researchers at the request of DG Environment and published on February 15th, 2006, is to assess the impact on the environment and humans exposed via the ...
After a long waiting it is out. Please take a note of an address: http://www.newNGOforum.org developed within the project "New NGO Forum". This website will focus on developments related to the EU Enl...
