We finish the bees well

[Christophe]

Does anyone understand this article? Because the title contradicts the content of the article ...

http://www.24heures.ch/monde/europe/L-U ... y/11975571 (especially for its lobbyists ...)

EU will not ban pesticides harmful to bees

European Union member states have failed to reach a qualified majority, either for or against a ban on three commonly used pesticides linked to the decline of bees

European Union member states failed to reach a summit in Brussels on Friday on a ban on three commonly used pesticides linked to the decline in bees, the European Commission said.

"No qualified majority has been reached, either for or against the text," the committee said in a statement.

This ban had been proposed in January by the European Commission. The European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) had estimated that a category of pesticides, neonicotinoids, was threatening bee populations.

Member countries now have two months to find a compromise, failing which the European Commission may unilaterally ban these pesticides. They are mainly produced by the Swiss company Syngeta and by the German group Bayer.

[bidouille23]

Hello ,

actually personal I understand that a member state is not the same as a member country of the EU ????

He must have been drunk with the guy who wrote this, or else it's a messy translation ...

[gegyx]

Seen from afar ... What I am saying is more than approximate ...
Remember with GMOs ...

The commission wanted to reintroduce GMOs.
The member states discussed dry, and we voted. There was a majority against. As this majority was less than the qualified majority, it was the (unelected) commission that finally decided for the reintroduction of GMOs.

Well then, she is proposing a ban on anti-bee products ... and without a qualified agreement, she will decide what she wants ...

[bidouille23]

Bonjour,

it is like when a referendum was held in France that the result is a negative opinion but that we still apply the treaty ...;)

it's called taking people for C.ns actually ...

[culbuto]

this is also called "an advisory opinion"
in other words: we don't care about their opinion

[bidouille23]

it's the most elegant way to say it effectively;), more feminine if I dare say , in the sweetness ...

[the middle]

Yes no no

the concern for bees does not wane. And always, pesticides are in the crosshairs. Particularly neocotinoids which the European Commission should soon banish for two years

http://www.lesoir.be/216369/article/act ... s-abeilles

[Christophe]

http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/will-sum ... les-menace

Russia warns Obama: global war over bee disappearance threatens

By Sorcha Faal, May 10, 2013

Alarming minutes of last week's meeting between President Vladimir Putin and US Secretary of State John Kerry reveal Russian leader's "extreme outrage" over Obama regime's protection of agrochemical giants Syngenta and Monsanto in the face of a "bee apocalypse" which the Kremlin warns "will most certainly lead" to a world war.

According to these minutes, published today in the Kremlin by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment of the Russian Federation (MRNE), Putin was so angry at the Obama regime's refusal to discuss this very serious subject that he declined for three hours to receive Kerry, who had traveled to Moscow on a pre-arranged diplomatic mission, but changed his mind so as not to create an even greater split between the two nations.

At the center of this dispute between Russia and the United States, this DNRE report announces, is the "undisputed evidence" that a range of neuroactive insecticides linked to nicotine, known as neo-nicotinoids, destroy the bee population of our planet, which, left as is, could destroy our world's ability to grow enough food to feed its populations.



This situation has become so serious, reports the MRNE, that the European Commission as a whole last week instituted a two-year precautionary ban (to start on December 1, 2013) on the use of these "bee-killing pesticides. "following Switzerland, France, Italy, Russia, Slovenia and Ukraine, all of which had already banned the use of the most dangerous genetically modified organisms on the continent.

Two of the most feared neo-nicotinoids subject to this ban are Actara and Cruiser, manufactured by the Swiss multinational biotechnology company Syngenta AG, which employs more than 26000 people in more than 90 countries, having the third world market sales commercial agricultural seeds.

It is important to note, says this report, that Syngenta, along with bio-tech giants Monsanto, Bayer, Dow and DuPont now control almost 100% of the global market for pesticides and genetically modified seeds and plants.

Also relevant about Syngenta, the report continues, in 2012 Syngenta was convicted in Germany for having concealed the fact that its genetically modified maize kills cattle, and paid as compensation for a collective $ 105 million complaint in the United States following the discovery of the contamination of the drinking water of some 52 million US citizens in more than 2000 aquifers with its "gender changer" herbicide Atrazine.

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[Christophe]

Crazy but true ... a fine example of politico-scientific manipulation !!

The European Commission has just published an epidemiological study report concerning the mortalities of bee colonies in 17 European states, including France. In this report, one factor of mortality has been omitted by Brussels: pesticides. A less scientific than political choice for Gérard Arnold, director of research at the CNRS.

http://www.marianne.net/Hecatombe-des-a ... 38266.html

[cortejuan]

Hi,

an article in today's World reports a serious scientific study on several populations of bees confirming the lethal role of two insecticides, for those who are not yet convinced ...

There are still some.

cordially