EUROPEAN COMMISSION DRAFTS WATER MANAGEMENT GREEN PAPER
March 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning to add water management and climate change concerns to the environment in general as a prior consideration for the development of European Union (EU) policies on farming, transport and industrial expansion. Brussels officials are drafting a green paper on the idea, open for consultation from this summer, with current EU president Germany pushing the idea.
THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning to add water management and climate change concerns to the environment in general as a prior consideration for the development of European Union (EU) policies on farming, transport and industrial expansion. Brussels officials are drafting a green paper on the idea, open for consultation from this summer, with current EU president Germany pushing the idea.
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