MEP Eric Andrieu (S&D, France), who was chair of the European Parliament’s Special Committee on Pesticides (PEST), reacted strongly on Thursday 10 September to revelations from Greenpeace that 81,000 tonnes of toxic pesticides banned for use in the EU had been exported by the EU (81,000 tonnes in 2018), mostly to developing countries.
In a press release, he recalled that he had expressed his concern about this problem in a written question to the Commission last February in which he asked...