Communiqués sur la politique européenne en français
WWF welcomes proposals for reform of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) that favour better environmental management.
A new report from WWF says that the Spanish National Hydrological Plan is not only environmentally damaging, but also illegal and not economically justified.
WWF, the conservation organization, strongly urges European Environmental Ministers, meeting for the last time under the Spanish Presidency, to learn from past environmental disasters such as the Erika oil spill in 1999 or the pollution of the Doñana basin in 1998 and to ensure that significant progress is made on the proposed Directive for the prevention or restoration of environmental damage.
Europe's businesses and public institutions could cut their carbon dioxide emissions by an amount equal to the emissions of Denmark by buying 'green' electricity said WWF, the conservation organization, today at the launch of a new campaign.
The countries of Central and Eastern Europe currently support numerous sustainable farming activities. But these traditional practises - together with the natural environment - are threatened as these countries prepare to join the EU.
WWF activists dressed as fish today presented European Fisheries Ministers with a letter calling on Governments not to block reform of Europe's failed Common fisheries policy (CFP).
The European Commission's much-delayed plans for reforming the EU's fisheries policy still features a proposal to end EU aid for building new boats or modernising existing boats said WWF.
To prevent this year's review of the European Union's Common Fisheries Policy becoming a farce, the European Commission must not delay its proposals for reform.
Party leaders from the Party of European Socialists meeting in Barcelona last night committed to radical reform of the Common Fisheries Policy.
WWF urges EU Fisheries Ministers, meeting today to decide on fishing quotas for next year, to accept the European Commission's cautious approach to setting next year's total allowable catches.