Europe News Brussels wants to cut the proportion of smokers in the EU to just 5% Margaritis Schinas, vice president of the European Commission, said he wanted to create a tobacco-free generation of Europeans. 03/02/2021
Europe News Brussels pauses 5G rollout due to cancer fears The European Union has paused 5G rollout but is pressing ahead with its plans to develop it across the bloc with ongoing risk-based assessments. 16/01/2020
France French study links sugary drinks to cancer Scientists found that drinking 100ml of sugary drinks, including 100% fruit juice, increased the risk of cancer by 18%. 11/07/2019
Europe News Increasing risk of cancer in the workplace Trade unions demand that cancer be recognised as work related illness and calls on the European Union to maintain pressure on employers 02/05/2019
world news Over 1.4 million to die from cancer in EU this year: Study Lung cancer has been found to be the deadliest form of the disease for both sexes, surpassing breast cancer for women. 19/03/2019
Europe News Brief from Brussels: Monsanto storm continues, will Hungary be disciplined? In this edition of the Brief from Brussels: US lawyers say they have ‘explosive’ documents about agribusiness giant Monsanto and its affairs in 06/09/2018
Europe News Monsanto's Roundup faces European politics An organic farm in eastern Belgium. Its owner aims at cultivating the land in such a way, as to keep the soil alive and in good health by use of 10/10/2017
Unreported Europe Animals, Abattoirs and Antibiotic resistance Europeans do like their steak… but the most consumed meat in Europe is by far pork. Find out why the process behind your bacon is one of the driving forces behind a global health threat. 22/07/2016
Unreported Europe Antibiotic Resistance: a bigger threat than cancer by 2050 A British study shows that by 2050, antibiotic resistance could become even more deadly than cancer. 22/07/2016
My Europe Series Dirty business: mafia's toxic waste crimes spread across Europe The illegal dumping of domestic and sometimes even hazardous industrial waste by the mafia has long been a problem in Italy. Now it has emerged that 24/06/2015