…is growing again. My home country Finland is not alone in its discussions about building additional plants. France, Great Britain, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Italy and the Baltic countries are also waking up. Also Belgium looks set to dismantle its nuclear shutdown plans which were only formulated a…
…is growing again. My home country Finland is not alone in its discussions about building additional plants. France, Great Britain, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Italy and the Baltic countries are also waking up. Also Belgium looks set to dismantle its nuclear shutdown plans which were only formulated a…
…parties Create complaints mechanisms and procedures for the investigation and prosecution of electoral crimes; Enough time and instruments for informed voting as well as election planning and procedures; Greater transparency and independent audits; Lowering the number of voters per polling station and measures to reduce lines and polling to just…
…Currently she is a Delegate of the Consultative Commission on Industrial Change to the European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels, and a board member and adviser to companies concentrating on clean tech and energy. She is an active blogger and columnist, as well as the author of several books….
…action research: your candidate has participated as an active legislator in the topic at hand, as is the case for emissions trading. The issue is important, because climate has been a dominant environmental question almost for 20 years to which politics, businesses, and academic research have attempted to find a…
…host, as well as Mr Mika Akkanen, Ms Minna Arve and Ms Sari Ruusumo. I also want to thank our excellent EPP staff John Biesmans, Aneta Matuszaczak, Annick Jarles, Carola Maertin, Amanda Said, Christine Detourbet, Jeanne Krmek-Rados, Gianfranco Emanuele, Cedric Ivry and naturally Taina Mertalo and Sarita Rauta. Thank you!…
…aggressive secularism, which derides faith as contrary to reason and defines faith by conflict. Thus do the extreme believers and the aggressive non-believers come together in unholy alliance. And yet, faith will not be so easily cast. For billions of people, faith motivates, galvanises, compels and inspires, not to exclude…
…aims to develop and implement measures to address illegal logging and related trade. The industry, however, has taken a pro-active role in promoting and implementing FLEGT within the European paper making and has supported its implementation in e.g. Russia. Such a pro-active industry role is welcome in particular as the…
…Future. Within weeks the Commission is expected to propose a directive on Joint implementation and Clean development mechanism, and a directive on energy demand management. In addition, we are waiting for the Commission proposal for Heat from renewable energy sources to twin with the Res-E directive that was adopted recently….
…Russia for our gas and that will rise to 60 % by 2030 if we allow “business as usual”. Ask anyone in Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia and even my own country, Finland, how it feels to become so dependent on a power hungry neighbour. Now the question of emissions and why…