The European Commission must tighten air quality standards 'ambitiously' to get the air cleaner, according to the European Court of Auditors. The standards are now much less stringent than the World Health Organization and scientists consider necessary and even those that are exceeded in most EU countries, the inspectors write in a report.
The European Commission has set up wrongly omitted rules that determine how chemical pesticides can disrupt hormones. The General Court of the European Union in Brussels on Wednesday tapped it on the fingers.
The European Commission must quickly come up with an answer to the judgment of the European Court of Justice that personal data of European Internet users can not simply be transferred to the United States. That signal gave several European Ministers of Justice in Luxembourg Friday . Minister of Security and Justice Ard van der Steur thinks that is urgently needed.
