In the countdown to the much-awaited and carefully-prepared for climate summit to be held in Copenhagen towards the end of 2009, ‘the United Nations is planning a form of diplomatic shock therapy for world leaders this week in the hope of injecting badly needed urgency into negotiations for a climate change treaty that, it is [...]

If there is something about quaint European towns that make them almost wondrous, they are the narrow cobbled streets which look so awesome. However, cleaning these pretty streets can be a problem as garbage trucks cannot wade through narrow streets. Thus, the European Commission has funded $3.9 million for the Dustbot project.
The Dustbot is a [...]

The ban in Germany of GM maize from Monsanto is another defeat for the European Commission which campaigns for the lifting of all bans on MON810 in the EU. After Austria, France, Greece, Hungary, and Luxembourg, Germany announced on April 14 that it would suspend cultivation of Monsanto’s genetically-modified maize called MON810.
Minister of Agriculture Ilse [...]

The process of enlargement of the European Union (EU) is in crisis because of the seriousness of the economic recession and the deep differences on the European integration process. Germany’s Angela Merkel was the first to call a pause in consolidation following the rapid addition of 12 countries.
This policy shift has jolted the expectations of [...]

At least seven EU countries (Portugal, France, UK, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, and Spain) are willing to share a few dozen prisoners at Guantanamo which the Bush administration had ordered released because of the US inability to hear and judge their cases. The US is not willing to host these prisoners nor could they be repatriated [...]

It is a blow on the pro-GMO position of the European Commission. The European Union member countries rejected, on Monday March 2 in Brussels, the lifting of the prohibition on the culture of genetically modified corn (MON810) by the American firm Monsanto, being forced in Austria and Hungary. The vote occurred just as EC executives [...]

The European Commission announced on Tuesday, March 3 that it will finance a European coalition against the profusion of pedophile pornography on the Internet. This is under the auspices of the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU). As part of the UN’s Global Cybersecurity Agenda (GCA), the agency created the Child Online Protection (COP) initiative.
The foremost [...]

Big multinational pharmaceutical companies are weathering the economic crisis for a good reason. According to the European Commission, big pharma ‘systematically rigged the market to squeeze out copycat medicines.’ The 400-page accusation report is the result of evidence from investigations that the European Commission gathered in January when it raided the headquarters of the biggest [...]

Just because fish teem in the sea, it doesn’t readily mean that the supply will go on for eternity. Bycatch is the grim reality that will soon catch up on us. Bycatch is the practice of throwing caught fish back into the sea. The discarded fish are the ones that fishermen think won’t give them [...]