French officials finally respond to allegations of doctored data

By Kate Willson

ICIJ’s Looting the Seas investigation, on the $4 billion black market in bluefin tuna, has attracted worldwide attention since its release t

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"… uw, the Sunday Times and The Huffington Post.Members of the European Parliament and WWF are hosting a showing of the BBC documentary t …"

Europe’s new pesticide regulations leave America in the dust

By Jillian Olsen

The European Parliament’s environment committee voted last week in favor of new pesticide regulations that make America’s laws look a little

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"… emical industry may have more to worry about in ’09 than a recession. …"

"… e of wheat if the legislation is enforced.If the proposal gets through the European Parliament in January, anti-pesticide activists in the U.S. will certainly find thems …"

European ambitions hit a wall of carbon

By Brigitte Alfter

Business and industry pare back EU climate goals

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"… aseline was not the only problem. The final climate package, passed by the European Parliament in December 2008, contained watered down provisions that disappointed …"

"… they’ve all been lobbied like hell,” says Jo Leinen, who chairs the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety. In that …"

"… ironmental requirements. Avril Doyle, the conservative Irish member of the European Parliament who helped steer the climate legislation to passage last year, says the lo …"

"… ate legislation to passage last year, says the lobbying was fierce. As the European Parliament’s chief negotiator with the European Council on the review of the Emissi …"

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The EU's billion-Euro bet

By Brigitte Alfter

How Europe ended up paying industry for carbon capture and storage

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"… old.Also pushing for CCS was Chris Davies, a liberal British member of the European Parliament (MEP) who found support from industry. “The idea for the funding came fr …"

"… lion for CCS.Then came October 6, 2008, the day of the crucial vote in the European Parliament’s environmental committee on CCS, emission trading, and the entire clima …"

"… ies approached conservative Polish MEP Jerzy Buzek, today president of the European Parliament, who had voted against the measure in the first round. Buzek now promised …"

"… tch Shell — was supportive in the crucial months between the vote in the European Parliament in October 2008 and the final decision in the European Council in December …"

A casualty in the war on terror

By Nathaniel Heller

Europe's relations with U.S. undermined by apparent complicity on CIA prisons

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"… nbsp;revealed the existence of "black site" prisons there. By the time the European Parliament released its initial findings about the covert program in June 2006, Europ …"

"… t only his own previous lies," said Sarah Ludford, a British member of the European Parliament, "he also exposes to ridicule those arrogant government leaders in Europe …"

"… et prisons and extraordinary renditions. An investigative committee of the European Parliament created to explore this issue concluded in January 2007 that it was "unlik …"

The price of independence: $1 billion

By Marina Walker Guevara

Once-loyal Turkey passed up aid to maintain its own Iraq policy

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"… action against the PKK, a separatist insurgent group that Washington, the European Parliament and Turkey consider a terrorist organization.The PKK retreated from Turkey …"

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Lobbying, old-time politics block legislation on human cloning

By M. Asif Ismail

Bush administration articulates no position

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"… d a relaxation of rules in the U.S.Meanwhile, a 36-member committee of the European Parliament opened hearings in the last week of January 2001 on human cloning. The com …"

Nearly €6 billion in subsidies fuel Spain’s ravenous fleet

Out-of-control subsidies have helped Spain build up a fleet that breaks the law at home and abroad

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"… ned requests for interviews from ICIJ.    Spanish member of the European Parliament (MEP) Josefa Andrés Barea said the subsidized foreign fishing licenses ar …"

Secret US detention program had many foreign collaborators

By Douglas Birch

A new report details the involvement of dozens of countries in rough treatment, without accountability

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"… yria’s notorious Far’ Falestin prison. According to the report, citing European Parliament and other official accounts, German intelligence officers were allowed to …"