Full Coverage: Europe

28.02.2006 Investment in renewable alternatives and energy efficiency and conservation measures will deliver greater emissions reductions than nuclear power, more cheaply, and without safety risks, Britain's Green Party said on Tuesday as it launched its Alternative Energy Report.

28.02.2006 In 2005, the Ministry of Justice, in collaboration with Save the Children UK program in Montenegro and Professor Radoje Korac, PhD, Law Faculty, department for family law, formed a working group to develop a draft Law on the protection from violence in the family.

28.02.2006 Tony Blair appears, yet again, to be sidelining the Kyoto process for dealing with climate change, Friends of the Earth said after the Prime Minister met campaigners on Tuesday morning and was told that UK policies fall far short of the action needed to avert disaster.

28.02.2006 The leadership of the Kosova Art Gallery (GAK) as a continuity of its requirement for the right over the building of former hotel “Union” which is located in the downtown of Kosova’s capital, yesterday (Monday) has placed a four meters cloth transparent with the text of the Regulation No.2003/13 - On the Transformation of the Right of Use to Socially Owned Immovable Property.

28.02.2006 Birmingham's Café One, the UK's only Fairtrade music venue, kicks off National Fairtrade Fortnight on 3 March with an evening of musical and cultural collaboration featuring Soweto Kinch and MC Mad Flow.

28.02.2006 Last thursday, 23 February, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Croatian Business Council for Sustainable Development organized, under the “Croatian Responsible Business Agenda 2006” initiative, a presentation of GRI guidelines reporting on socially responsible business and their translation into Croatian.

28.02.2006 Home Office figures that show 3,300 families have benefited from the "Family amnesty Exercise" in the last quarter of 2005, bringing the total to 20,170, were described as "brilliant news" by the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns.

28.02.2006 Human rights, South Asian women, Australia, black women, Romanies, lesbians and gays. The common factor? OneWorld UK's Events page explains.

28.02.2006 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development should not fund Shell’s Sakhalin II project in Russia's Far East because the project’s environmental and social standards are inadequate, an international environmental group said yesterday.

28.02.2006 European Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson was yesterday accused by a leading international development group of making a speech on trade that was "full of excuses and misleading claims".

28.02.2006 The Council for Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms – CDHRF, says that the Roma, Ashkalia and Egyptian IDP’s, which remain in camps in Northern Kosovo since the end of teh war in Kosovo in 1999, live in extremely difficult conditions, exposed to the high risks to their health presented by high lead presence in their blood. This is nothing new and at the same time known to everyone. But, so far nothing serious has been undertaken to rectify their issue”.

28.02.2006 Stop Climate Chaos campaign group will urge the UK Government to take urgent and effective action on climate change when they meet with the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and an exceptional line-up of other cabinet ministers including the Chancellor, Gordon Brown today.

28.02.2006 UK Energy Minister Malcolm Wick's call for higher rates of tax for urban 4x4s is half-hearted and much tougher measures are needed, the Green Party said yesterday.

27.02.2006 The e-Riders project is designed to strengthen the capacities of the civil organizations in Macedonia to present their messages, promote citizens participation in public affairs, make coalitions and serve their communities better.

27.02.2006 The first SOS Phone-Line for Roma Women Victims of Violence in Serbia was opened in Nis. The SOS Phone is open to women and children from other ethnic communities, while the volunteers can communicate in Romani and Serbian languages.

27.02.2006 The Centre for Modern Skills, in cooperation with the Belgrade Centre for Political Excellence and the Provincial Secretariat of Labour, Employment and Gender Equality, will organize the conference Towards Gender Equality Law – Serbia’s European Perspectives. The Conference is scheduled to take place in Belgrade, 16 March 2006.

27.02.2006 Prime Minister Tony Blair has been urged to step up diplomatic pressure on Japan to halt its drive to overturn the ban on commercial whaling.

27.02.2006 The loss of biological diversity continues to accelerate throughout Europe, officials from 40 governments and environmental organisations concluded at a three-day meeting in Croatia last week.

27.02.2006 Up to 10 countries, led by France, are expected to agree to impose a tax on air travel tomorrow, with the money used to increase spending on overseas aid.

27.02.2006 from Enviropundit: Green Building blog:
European companies could save billions each year by making electric motors more efficient. Likewise the US, says Jacqui.