Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s welcome
Welcome to the Danish EU Presidency Now more than ever, we need to work together in the EU. We must dare to make difficult decisions. We must restore confidence, security and optimism. We must,...
View ArticleThe Minister for European Affairs presents the priorities of the Danish EU...
Today Denmark’s Minister for European Affairs, Nicolai Wammen, presented the priorities of the upcoming Danish EU Presidency at a press conference in Brussels.
View ArticleWe must address more crises at the same time
The answer to the current crises is a coordinated and interlinked approach addressing both the financial and the climate and resource crisis at one and the same time.
View ArticleLaunching of the Programme of the Danish EU Presidency Friday in Copenhagen
Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Minister for Economics and the Interior Margrethe Vestager, Minister for Foreign Affairs Villy Søvndal and Minister for European Affairs Nicolai Wammen will...
View ArticlePresentation of the Presidency priorities in the Committees of the European...
24 presentations by 15 ministers in 16 EP Committees over 3 days
View ArticleEurope at an energy crossroads
Facing immense challenges in our energy system we need to make sweeping investments and bold choices. If we do not, we will be stuck in the back seat. Discussions have been kick started on in Brussels...
View ArticleEnergy efficiency is a top priority for the Danish Presidency
On Tuesday 14 February EU's Ministers for Energy will meet for one of the key important negotiations during the Danish Presidency and try to agree on how to reduce Europe's consumption of energy by 20...
View ArticleEU Energy Ministers signal political support for finalising negotiations on...
On Tuesday 14 February, EU Energy Ministers met in Brussels to discuss the Energy Efficiency Directive, tabled to ensure that the EU will reach its goal of reducing the level of energy consumption by...
View ArticleMinister for the Environment Ida Auken strengthens relations between Europe...
"We have established very important relations to the African countries", says the Danish Minister for Environment Ida Auken. Representing the EU as the head of the delegation of the rotating EU...
View ArticleMinisters face tough negotiations on GMO’s and Climate milestones
Friday 9 March Europe's Environmental and Climate Ministers are meeting for a series of important negotiations. On the agenda are GMO’s and a roadmap on climate change up to 2050.
View ArticleMore than 20 Member States support the Presidency’s GMO compromise proposal
The Presidency compromise proposal which would allow Member States the possibility to say no to the cultivation of GMO’s on their own territories had the support from more than 20 EU Member States, but...
View ArticleMinister Lidegaard:"Climate Strategy Milestones are necessary to stay in the...
26 EU Environment Ministers today managed to agree on a climate strategy towards 2050. With 26 countries agreeing to the Presidency’s text on the Low Carbon 2050 Roadmap the conclusions were not...
View ArticleEurope signs important water agreement with China
Representing the EU member states, the Danish Minister for Environment Ida Auken today signed an agreement on water collaboration with China. From Europe, the collaboration will be led by Denmark and...
View ArticleIncreased safety for neighbours to hazardous industrial sites
The Danish EU Presidency has brokered a new agreement with the European Parliament. European citizens will in the near future be able to see if they have Seveso sites in their neighbourhood on the...
View ArticleStrong EU interest delays communication of nominees for the Board of the...
Today in Brussels, the EU discussed the nomination of board members to the Green Climate Fund. The Fund was launched at COP17 in Durban last December. There has been a significant interest for...
View ArticleRio+20: Sustainable Development
Heads of states and governments, UN and other international organisations, experts and NGOs will gather for three days in June for the Rio+20 Conference in Rio de Janeiro. The Conference will set the...
View ArticleInformal ministerial meeting in Horsens, Denmark to pave the way for a...
Minister for the Environment, Ida Auken and Minister for Climate, Energy and Building, Martin Lidegaard have invited their ministerial colleagues in Europe to an informal meeting in Horsens, Denmark...
View ArticleFull support for the green economy
There is no other way out of the economic crisis than through a green economy, which will strengthen the development of new and greener technologies, resource reductions and the protecting of our...
View ArticleStricter requirements to air pollution in Europe
The Danish Minister for the Environment, Ida Auken, is satisfied with a new international agreement that sets stricter requirements to air pollution across the borders of Europe. The agreement reaches...
View ArticleMinister for Environment Ida Auken and Commissioner Janez Potočnik celebrate...
On Monday 21 May 2012, The Danish Ministry of the Environment, the city of Aalborg and the European Commission host the 20-year anniversary of one of Europe’s key pieces of nature legislation, the...
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