MEP Éric Andrieu (S&D, France), who chairs the European Parliament’s PEST special committee, backed by 85 colleagues, wrote an open letter on Tuesday 20 March to the Commission calling on it immediately to do all in its power to persuade member state experts to support the proposal for a virtually total ban on three bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides.
What the signatories of the letter to Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis...