ENVIRONMENTAL NGO ATTACK

BY ALAN OSBORNTHE PRESENT European Commission under the presidency of Romano Prodi has sometimes been said to be 'green-minded,' in that it takes a more friendly attitude towards the environment than either its predecessors or the European Union member governments. That generous assumption is open to question, according to Europe's leading environmental organisations. The "Green G8" - an informal body which brings together the European Environmental Bureau, Friends of the Earth Europe, Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of Nature International, the European Federation for ...


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