Article: EU environmental policy at 25: the politics of multinational governance. (European Union)(includes related article on EU's struggle to revise water quality standards)

Environmental Policy

On 22 November 1998, environmental policy in the European Union (EU) will be 25 years old. Although a few ad hoc environmental measures were enacted earlier, it was on that date in 1973 that the European Economic Community (a predecessor to the EU) first adopted an action program giving environmental policy a sound political and intellectual platform from which to develop. Over the years, that policy has succeeded in garnering widespread support from a public that is generally suspicious of EU institutions and unsure about the long-term implications of integrating sovereign states into a common institutional framework. Even now, when there is ...

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