Sven Giegold, spokesperson for the Greens Group in the European Parliament, urged Germany on Thursday 31 August to vote “against the re-authorisation of glyphosate”, the active substance in the world’s most widely used and highly controversial weed killer, when member state experts come to their decision, possibly at the start of October.
On Thursday, the European Commission did not say whether a vote was scheduled at the meeting of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and...