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An EU ban on Mercury? (Photo: Wikipedia)

Brussels rejects bad marks from green NGOs

The European Commission has rebuffed a green assessment by a group of ten environment NGOs that gave the current Barroso commission a lower score than the previous Prodi commission, with Brussels saying it is doing well on environmental policy.

"We do not feel it is a fair assessment," EU commission spokeswoman Barbara Helfferich told journalists in Brussels on Thursday (3 May), as she presented the EU executive's annual report assessing its own environmental credentials.

"We hav...

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An EU ban on Mercury? (Photo: Wikipedia)

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