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This EU-funded website set up by PSIRU helps water utilities, local authorities and civil society organisations identify partners and use EU aid to build not-for-profit water partnerships for African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.

New investment powers, granted to the EU Commission under the Lisbon Treaty, will still allow multinational companies to claim compensation when national laws designed to protect the environment or public health damage their profits, according to proposals put forward by the EU Commission this month.

The Farmers Biotech Network GM Food tasting event,reported on by Corporate Europe Observatory recently, was not paid for by the farmers network, CEO has learned, but by EuropaBio.

After Commissioner Janez Potocnik's very weak reply to the letter sent by Food and Water Europe, CEO and other organisations, the organisations replied back again, stressing the demand for the EC to withdraw from the "European Food Sustainable Consumption and Production Roundtable (SCP Roundtable). Read the letter here.

A peculiar pro-biotech event took place in Brussels. A 'farmers network' gave Brussels the chance to sample some genetically modified (GM) cuisine at an event in the upmarket Renaissance Hotel on 28 June, just across the road from the European Parliament. Lucky Brussels?

Twenty two Members of the European Parliament from across the political spectrum launched a remarkable warning against the financial industry’s intensive lobbying efforts last week, warning that it “poses a danger to democracy”.

Consumer organisations reacted with great disappointment to MEPs' rejection of the traffic light labelling scheme in the 17 June vote. CIAA, the food and drinks industry lobby, seemed pleased with the vote, but criticised CEO's report on food labelling and even denied being a lobbying organisation in a conversation with CEO.