Business Planet
Helping Baltic businesses to become cleaner and greener
In partnership with The European Commission
The LIFE/Fit for REACH project aims to reduce the use of hazardous chemicals in the Baltic region by helping SMEs to develop best practice when it comes to chemical management. Agnese Meija-Toropova is from the Baltic Environmental Forum Latvia, which coordinates the project.
Latvia
Euroviews. Arms Trade Treaty offers hope as multi-lateral relations falter ǀ View
104 countries have now ratified the ATT, and they will meet this week in Geneva [...]. This annual meeting is the main mechanism for the implementation of the treaty, and sees states report on the progress of effective implementation, transparency and universalisation of the treaty.
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World News
Euroviews. Automated technologies at EU borders and the future of Fortress Europe ǀ View
The deployment of new technologies [...] to automate EU border security systems, raises multiple human rights concerns. While the past and present human rights implications of Fortress Europe have been widely catalogued, future ones [...], urgently need addressing.
World News
Euroviews. It's time the EU helped all farmers - not just the richest ones | View
Farmers in the Baltic states are paid the least in farming subsidies, despite needing the most financial support. It's time the EU acted and redressed the inbalance between the richer member states and those in most need of the EU's help.
Estonia
Rail Baltica: how Brexit is casting doubt over €5.8bn Estonia-Poland train line
It’s a €5.8 billion Baltics rail link that has been described as the most important project for Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia since their independence. But the scheme’s CEO has admitted there are no guarantees over its future financing.