TAG: Plastics
German government backtracks on tax hikes for farmers following protests
BERLIN — Germany's three-party ruling coalition on Thursday partly backed down from a proposal to cu...
8 months ago
Europe needs more cash, Belgian PM says
The European Union needs more of its own money, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told POLITI...
8 months ago
Don’t bring a plastic bottle to the Olympics — unless you’re Coca-Cola
The French would call it deux poids, deux mesures — literally, “two weights, two scales” — or a double standard, for us anglophones. At the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, you won’t be able to bring in plastic bottles. But Coca-Cola, which has exclusi...
2 months ago
Right-wing MEPs loathe the Green Deal — but have no plan of attack
BRUSSELS — Lawmakers on the EU’s right flank can easily agree: They all hate the Green Deal.It’s how to channel that hatred that is proving hard. Even as green skeptics are set to arrive in the European Parliament in record numbers, there’s no discernible...
2 months ago
Norway: Oil producers cannot be allowed to derail plastic treaty
Norway, the European Union and other countries across Africa, the Pacific Islands and South America say they won't stand for oil-rich countries frustrating efforts to reach a global treaty to fight plastic pollution — and plan to heap pressure on these “v...
2 weeks ago