Biodiversity alarm
June 26, 2009
Europe is failing to meet its 2001 target of halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010.
Yesterday EU Environment Ministers expressed deep concern at this failure and at the increasing threats to biodiversity from invasive alien species.
Golf Europa reported in April on the high level conference in Athens on biodiversity.
Yesterday’s clear message from EU national governments [...]
No progress on soil
June 26, 2009
Golf Europa has reported in the past on proposals from the European Commission for the first ever EU legislation on soil policy.
At their meeting yesterday of the EU Environment Council, Ministers failed to reach agreement on the draft EU Directive on soil protection. Some governments do not agree that legislation on soil policy is appropriate [...]
ESF at 100% rejected
June 24, 2009
Last week’s meeting of EU Heads of State and Government rejected the European Commission’s proposal to enable ESF grants to finance 100% of project costs for the next couple of years.
The proposal for 100% financing of ERDF projects will not now be brought forward.
ESF at 100%
June 3, 2009
The European Commission has formally announced today its proposal to allow European Social Fund grants for the next couple of years to be used to finance 100% of project costs.
Contrary to our report earlier this week, the European Regional Development Fund has not so far been included in this rule change.
This is, nonetheless, a big [...]