icon

ADVANCED SEARCH

Press Releases, Opinions, Publications, Events and Videos

Filter
  • Agriculture and Fisheries
  • Climate
  • Culture
  • Transparency and Democracy
  • Economy
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • European Union
  • International
  • Mobility
  • Rights and freedoms
  • Trade
  • Society
    • array(7) { ["url"]=> string(44) "files/assets/imgs/list/car_exhaust_pipes.jpg" ["title"]=> string(17) "car exhaust pipes" ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1568297872) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "05c371f06aad72e0714faa8029b4b9ea.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8702/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(50) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8702/list" ["photo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8702/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(54) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8702/portrait" } ["alt"]=> string(17) "car exhaust pipes" } car exhaust pipes
    Press release |

    New revelations about VW cheating must force Commission to act

    According to the German broadcaster SWR, Volkswagen continued to cheat on emissions tests using defeat devices in diesel engines under Euronorm6 after the diesel scandal came to light in 2015. The revelations were published before Chancellor Angela Merkel opens the International Motor Show in Frankfurt.
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1557910963_836cdbe887e951a14874df67eccff9f3.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1557910963) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "836cdbe887e951a14874df67eccff9f3.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8492/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(50) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8492/list" ["photo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8492/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(54) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8492/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    News |

    How did the car industry manage to undermine EU pollution limits?

    Despite an EU law limiting the amount of pollution that cars could emit, the car industry - together with complicit EU governments - managed not only to delay the implementation of the rules, but to insert massive loopholes that essentially rendered the new pollution limits meaningless. How this happened is a scandal that is yet to be fix…
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(46) "files/assets/imgs/list/car____mike_schmidt.jpg" ["title"]=> string(19) "car © Mike Schmidt" ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1553774278) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "f0447ba5bfe1a68940e41963506c72c7.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8331/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(50) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8331/list" ["photo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8331/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(54) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8331/portrait" } ["alt"]=> string(19) "car © Mike Schmidt" } car © Mike Schmidt
    Press release |

    Parliament calls on the Commission to act for citizens health

    The European Parliament has adopted a resolution on recent developments concerning the Dieselgate scandal. Internal Market Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska recently announced that the European Commission has brought an action countering the judgment of the European Court of Justice that annulled pollution permits.
    array(8) { ["url"]=> string(64) "files/assets/imgs/list/copy_of_16611-0505-11-05-05_grand_d_5.jpg" ["title"]=> string(40) "Hemicycle European Parliament Strasbourg" ["alt"]=> string(40) "Hemicycle European Parliament Strasbourg" ["copyright"]=> string(14) "European Union" ["updated_at"]=> int(1553265743) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "3e21daa56e4ba233bab3b3806f5034fa.jpg" ["fname"]=> string(39) "Copy of 16611-0505-11-05-05 Grand D.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8293/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(50) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8293/list" ["photo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8293/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(54) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8293/portrait" } }
    European Union
    Hemicycle European Parliament Strasbourg
    News |

    What's coming up in Parliament

    A look ahead to the March II plenary session in the European Parliament in Strasbourg and the Greens/EFA priority issues on the agenda
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(40) "files/assets/imgs/list/exhaust_pipes.jpg" ["title"]=> string(13) "Exhaust pipes" ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1553090284) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "95d9a93a43b66c6539f162b298a8b315.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8280/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(50) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8280/list" ["photo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8280/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(54) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8280/portrait" } ["alt"]=> string(13) "Exhaust pipes" } Exhaust pipes
    News |

    Ending the secrecy that allowed the car emissions scandal to flourish

    After car manufacturers were caught manipulating the results of emissions tests designed to reduce the amount of pollution emitted by vehicles in Europe, the Greens/EFA Group is still pushing hard to fix the failures in the EU’s regulatory process that allowed for this massive-scale emissions fraud.
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(67) "files/doc/imgs/list/1544695316_6dbf43e93da051e73a403b839522e451.jpg" ["title"]=> NULL ["copyright"]=> NULL ["updated_at"]=> int(1544695316) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "6dbf43e93da051e73a403b839522e451.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8023/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(50) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8023/list" ["photo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8023/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(54) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8023/portrait" } ["alt"]=> NULL }
    Press release |

    Ruling stops license to pollute

    The General Court of the European Court of Justice issued a ruling on the amendment of the Euro6 norms and annuls the conformity factor in the RDE legislation. The European Commission watered down the limits for NOx emissions by introducing a conformity factor.
    array(8) { ["url"]=> string(48) "files/assets/imgs/list/strasbourg__cquim.jpg.JPG" ["title"]=> string(47) "European Parliament Building Strasbourg ©Cquim" ["alt"]=> string(47) "European Parliament Building Strasbourg ©Cquim" ["copyright"]=> string(7) "©Cquim" ["updated_at"]=> int(1544714206) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "45b1905d4b286fcc61e96cb8d1bfc3c9.JPG" ["fname"]=> string(21) "strasbourg©Cquim.JPG" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8028/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(50) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8028/list" ["photo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8028/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(54) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/8028/portrait" } }
    ©Cquim
    European Parliament Building Strasbourg ©Cquim
    News |

    Greens/EFA Debriefing

    Greens/EFA priorities for the Strasbourg Plenary week included humanitarian visas, conflict of interest of Czech Prime Minister, transparency and sustainability of the EU risk assessment in the food chain, the digital service tax, the revocability of Art 50 ...
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(43) "files/assets/imgs/list/road_transport_1.jpg" ["title"]=> string(14) "Road Transport" ["copyright"]=> string(19) "Rolf van Melis | CC" ["updated_at"]=> int(1539867541) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "3fde9d79a2edd5dcdb5fcd464ad2dbca.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/7841/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(50) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/7841/list" ["photo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/7841/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(54) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/7841/portrait" } ["alt"]=> string(14) "Road Transport" }
    Rolf van Melis | CC
    Road Transport
    Press release |

    Making polluters responsible for climate protection

    The vast majority of the Environment Committee's MEPs have just asserted themselves against the Conservatives and voted in favour of strict CO2 standards for trucks and now have a solid position for negotiations with the Council and the European Commission, in "trilogue", on a regulation for "CO2 emission standards for new heavy goods veh…
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(42) "files/assets/imgs/list/paint_chemicals.jpg" ["title"]=> string(15) "paint chemicals" ["copyright"]=> string(12) "david pisnoy" ["updated_at"]=> int(1539867734) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "ebe1077893a393b40ea3c25f40a01659.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/7842/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(50) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/7842/list" ["photo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/7842/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(54) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/7842/portrait" } ["alt"]=> string(15) "paint chemicals" }
    david pisnoy
    paint chemicals
    Press release |

    One-third of chemicals on the market breach EU safety rules

    For years, chemical companies in the European Union have marketed hundreds of harmful chemicals that without properly checking if they are toxic, eco-toxic or have the potential to cause cancer, impair fertility and inhibit the development of unborn children.
    array(7) { ["url"]=> string(40) "files/assets/imgs/list/car_emissions.jpg" ["title"]=> string(13) "Car emissions" ["copyright"]=> string(30) "Ruben de Rijcke (CC BY-SA 3.0)" ["updated_at"]=> int(1537346283) ["file_name"]=> string(36) "c38b17327c23435cfec2be43cf16ac78.jpg" ["urls"]=> array(4) { ["jumbo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/7758/jumbo" ["list"]=> string(50) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/7758/list" ["photo"]=> string(51) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/7758/photo" ["portrait"]=> string(54) "https://extranet.greens-efa.eu/api/image/7758/portrait" } ["alt"]=> string(13) "Car emissions" }
    Ruben de Rijcke (CC BY-SA 3.0)
    Car emissions
    Press release |

    Car companies must be held to account over possible collusion

    The European Commission has just announced that it will open a formal investigation into whether BMW, Daimler and VW colluded to breach EU anti-trust rules around the roll-out of clean emissions technology.