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...Some E.U. member states and anti-GM campaigners remain unconvinced. Austria said it would outlaw growing the potato, and Italian Agriculture Minister Luca Zaia said he planned to "defend and safeguard traditional agriculture and citizens' health." The environmental group Greenpeace said the GM potato contains a gene that confers resistance to certain antibiotics. "It could raise bacterial resistance to life-saving medicines, including drugs used for the treatment of tuberculosis," says Greenpeace E.U. agriculture policy director Marco Contiero. "This is an unacceptable risk to human and animal health as well as to the environment." (See the top 10 green stories...
But the real implications of the new paper could come in international climate policy. The U.N. system is built around the idea of capping carbon emissions from individual nations. But which country is responsible for the carbon emitted in global trade? The buyer or the seller? The study demonstrates that...
Tax hikes are in the cards too: a 20% tax on alcohol and tobacco has already been approved by Parliament, a fuel tax is likely to follow, and other taxes are rumored. This worries executives like Doros Constantinou, the CEO of Coca-Cola Hellenic, which sells soft drinks in 28...
Common Spaces: Lacking. The Junior Common Room is a bit of a fail. You can go there to watch TV, but the environment is not exactly a cozy one, with awkward open spaces and not enough couches to go around during social events. The Old Library is more...
Chinese military analysts have explained the rapid spending increase as normal for a large nation climbing out of decades of poverty. "Although China now has a growing military demand, it has always upheld the principle of peaceful development. The double-digit increases in the past should be interpreted as compensational...