“Do you consider community policies to be sufficient?” “Is it only an implementation problem?” These questions from MEP Jutta Paulus (Greens/EFA, German) are directed to the Director of the European Environment Agency, Leena Ylä-Mononen, who presented the findings of the seventh report on the state of the environment (see EUROPE B13719A6) to the Members of the European Parliament’s Environment Committee on Monday, 13 October.
The EEA’s findings are unequivocal. Europe is the...