Brussels, 07/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - Respecting the EU's environmental legislation is not a luxury but a duty of the member states and, in times of crisis, ignoring it is a luxury given that, as things stand, failure to observe European environmental law will cost the EU some €50 billion a year in health care and direct costs for the environment over the next 30 years. This observation was at the heart of a communication on improving the implementation of European legislation, which was...