Activities seriously damaging environment will soon become a crime across the 27-nation EU, as the bloc's main institutions have agreed on a piece of law harmonising what constitutes a severe environmental offence and obliging national governments to apply criminal penalties to punish them.
On Wednesday (21 May), members of the European Parliament are set to give their blessing to a report by German conservative Hartmut Nassauer, which calls for "effective, proportionate and dissuasive...
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