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CCIA, a lobby group that represents Google and other tech firms like Amazon, criticised the move. "It is hard to see how such last minute change was guided by anything other than politics," Jakob Kucharczyk, CCIA's vice president said.
European Commission is the EU's politically independent executive arm. It is alone responsible for drawing up proposals for new European legislation, and it implements the decisions of the European Parliament and the Council of the EU.
I admit, the none of the several presidencies (EP, EC, Council) established to date by members of EU gov have attained a similar distinction or palpable constituencies. Therein lies, Mr Kissinger notoriously noted, the charming anarchy of the Union.
You may admit, now, the form that the people's bureaucracy assumes on any given day in no way belies their political purposes. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
18 member states, including France, Germany, Italy and the UK, have endorsed a Commission proposal to further restrict the use of three active substances use in pesticides (Bayer's imidacloprid and clothianidin, and Syngenta's thiamethoxam). The countries that voted against were Hungary, Romania, Denmark and the Czech Republic
The countries that voted against were Hungary, Romania, Denmark and the Czech Republic
Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Finland abstained from the vote.
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