• Polemical chemicals: Why plans to revise REACH have sparked a row
    Apr 10 2025
    In the final episode of this series, ENDS Europe discusses the European Commission’s plans to overhaul the EU’s key piece of chemicals legislation, and why it has triggered a backlash from industry.

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    14 mins
  • Environment commissioner Jessika Roswall on Europe’s green agenda
    Apr 3 2025
    On this week’s special edition of the Green Room, ENDS Europe speaks to the European Commission’s environment chief, Jessika Roswall, on the future of the Green Deal amid the EU’s competitiveness drive.

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    24 mins
  • Interview: BirdLife’s Ariel Brunner on what EU deregulation means for nature
    Mar 26 2025

    The journalists and analysts at ENDS Europe break down the big green news stories of the week.


    This week, deputy editor Simon Pickstone speaks to Ariel Brunner, EU director at Birdlife Europe and Central Asia about what the bloc’s deregulation drive could mean for nature protection, and why green groups are up in arms over the European Parliament’s accusations of lobbying.

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    15 mins
  • 99 problems (and sewage treatment is one)
    Mar 18 2025

    This week, the team discusses:


    • What the European Parliament has to say about the EU’s Clean Industrial Deal and new proposals to simplify corporate sustainability rules


    • And why industry is challenging recently agreed rules on waste water treatment.

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    13 mins
  • Commission’s auto-emission decision plus pesticide PFAS-trophe
    Mar 11 2025

    The ENDS Europe team breaks down the big green news stories of the week.


    This week, we’re discussing:


    • The European Commission’s u-turn on vehicle emissions standards;


    • and why the EU is looking to clamp down on pesticides containing PFAS ‘forever chemicals’.

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    13 mins
  • So fresh, so clean? Unpacking the EU’s plans for green industry and finance
    Mar 4 2025

    The journalists and analysts at ENDS Europe break down the big green news stories of the week.


    This week, we’re discussing last week’s deluge of action plans and proposals from the European Commission aiming to tackle the EU’s high energy prices, industrial competitiveness and regulatory complexity.


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    19 mins
  • Commission’s field day and talking trash
    Feb 25 2025

    The journalists and analysts at ENDS Europe break down the big green news stories of the week.


    This week, we’re discussing:


    • Why the European Commission’s new vision for farming is worrying environmentalists


    • And what a freshly agreed update to EU waste rules means for the food and textiles sectors

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    17 mins
  • Takin’ care of business and EU’s forest monitoring strife
    Feb 18 2025
    This week, the ENDS Europe team discusses what the European Commission’s new work programme says about the direction of its green agenda, and why lawmakers are trying to water down a law to monitor the health of Europe’s forests.

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    15 mins