Following the EU Green Week 2019, which ended on 17 May, Vella picked up this year’s claim ‘Take the initiative! Applying environmental legislation’ and concluded: “After the work this week, we have taken that initiative and turned it into action. That action needs to continue – because you only make environmental progress when you all pull together. There are remarkable efforts underway around the EU – the task now is to keep that momentum going!”
That was the take-home message for EU Green Week 2019.”
After two years’ work, recently the European Commission adopted the second Environmental Implementation Review (EIR), a look at what is working in environment policy, and what still needs to be done.
Full article available: https://www.neweurope.eu/article/vella-says-eu-must-maintain-the-momentum-of-its-environmental-work/