Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by CARL Florian, LAITI Jenni
A recent court verdict could affect Indigenous rights in Sweden and beyond.
In late January, the Indigenous Saami reindeer-herding community, Girjas, won a significant legal battle against the Swedish state. The Swedish Supreme Court legally recognised the Indigenous community’s ancestral claim (...)
, by KITSON Melissa, MARTÍN Bruno
Experts say that just one-fourth of trash from building sites is ending up in the hands of authorized management companies, even though much of it can be reused “infinitely”
For every citizen in the European Union, around a ton of construction waste is generated every year. But in Spain the (...)
, by GRAHAM-HARRISON Emma
The felling of ancient woodland to make way for a giant coal mine brings together two linked battles for the activist
Greta Thunberg started her long journey to climate summits in the Americas by joining a treetop protest in Germany’s Hambach forest, where environmentalists have been fighting (...)
, by SEILLER Louis
Building a motorway through the Kresna gorges will be a disaster for local people and for biodiversity.
From Valentin Stoichkov’s terrace, the views over the Pirin Mountains are breathtaking. The deputy mayor of the small town of Kresna, in south-western Bulgaria, has built an extension to his (...)
, by GILMARTIN Eoghan, GREENE Tommy, GUIJARRO Txema
Disputes over Spain’s national borders have dominated the campaign for today’s election. But Podemos’s radical environmental program against the billionaire class can save the entire planet.
In the final leaders’ debate before today’s knife-edge election, Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias was widely (...)
, by Agence France-Presse
Court victory halts utility firm RWE’s plan to raze Hambach woodland and expand an opencast mine
Thousands of anti-coal demonstrators descended on Germany’s Hambach forest on Saturday to celebrate an unexpected court victory that suspended an energy company’s planned razing of the woodland to (...)
, by Agence France-Presse
Occupiers protesting against coal mine expansion in Hambach forest call for mass mobilisation
Hundreds of police officers have descended on a patch of forest in western Germany occupied by activists living in treehouses, in a major escalation of a long-running environmental battle.
Dozens of (...)
, by BROCK Andrea
Activists have occupied Hambacher Forest for six years to prevent the area being destroyed and mined for coal. State violence, police brutality and coorporate power are combining to try and oust them for good.
In one of the largest policing operations in the history of the German state, police (...)
, by MEDAROV Georgi
The campaign to save the Bulgarian national Park Pirin has over the past several months become the major source of protest in the country and even brought the attention of international media and NGOs. Instead of embarrassingly shelving their plans for building on the mountain, the Bulgarian (...)
, by FROESE Michelle
Invenergy files international arbitration suit against Poland over wind projects
Invenergy Renewables, and other companies forming the Invenergy group, have submitted a Notice of Arbitration against the Republic of Poland citing violations of Invenergy’s rights as a foreign investor and clear (...)
, by TOMICIC Ana
Europe doesn’t know what to do with its trash. The poorest countries of the EU face the greatest challenges. EU directives and environmental incentives and penalities benefit mostly west European interests.
The policy of the European Union (EU) in the field of environmental protection and (...)
, by TANURO Daniel
“We are disposed to review our position. The result of the studies could lead to profound modifications. The Commission has not adopted a dogmatic position”. Thus the new European Commissioner for Industry, Günter Verheugen, speaking last January to the European Parliament on the REACH (...)
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