MEPs welcomed, on Thursday 16 March, the legitimate demands of the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) ‘Save Bees and Farmers! Towards a bee-friendly agriculture for a healthy environment’.
However, they expressed different positions on the degree of ambition of measures to ban pesticides to best preserve bee populations (see EUROPE B13106A11).
On behalf of the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Bas Eickhout (Greens/EFA, Netherlands) was critical of the current...