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EU Agency Seeks Emissions Limits in Transportation, Farming
July 26, 2018
A briefing from the European Environment Agency points to the road transport and agriculture sectors as the greatest impediments to EU members’ efforts to meet supranational limits on air pollution and calls for government policies clamping down on emissions from these sectors to help meet EU targets.
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EU Bank Invests $60 Million in South American Climate Action
July 26, 2018
The European Investment Bank, which asserts that it is “the world's largest financer of environmental investments,” has announced that it will invest $60 million in “climate change adaptation and mitigation” development projects in South America.
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EU Agency Calls for More Data on National Climate Policies
July 26, 2018
The European Environment Agency has produced a report warning that EU member states must disclose more quantitative data about the impacts and costs of their policies promoting a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions as part of the EU’s climate monitoring mechanism.
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EU Members Call for Creation of Counter-terrorism Register
July 26, 2018
At a recent seminar on counter-terrorism organized by the EU’s judicial cooperation unit Eurojust, French, German, Belgian, and Spanish officials called for the establishment of a European Judicial Counter-Terrorism Register to help national authorities identify links among cases and coordinate on counter-terrorism investigations.
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Murray Calls for US Resistance to EU Antitrust Actions
July 25, 2018
Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute writes that, with its recent decision to fine tech giant Google $5 billion for “anti-competitive practices” involving the licensing of its smartphone operating system, the European Commission is seeking to “become the world’s antitrust regulator” using faulty analysis at odds with US antitrust rules.
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