"While the EU celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of integration, the annual Green Week will concentrate on the teachings deriving from the environmental actions of the past, and it will wonder about the way to apply them to developing problems such as climate change, threats to biodiversity, and the heavy consequences on natural resources". Stavros Dimas, environment commissioner, and his staff worked to define the programme of the Green Week, scheduled from tomorrow to Friday 15 June, with epicentre at the Charlemagne Palace in Brussels. According to the promoters, the Special Week, "the biggest international event dedicated to community policies in relation to environment", will take four thousand delegates to the Belgian capital to participate in a conference made up of 22 round tables, plus two exhibitions on bio energies and several stands to make known EU interventions and the activities of the bodies and the associations operating in the sector. The subject in common with the different proposals is "Lessons from the past, challenges for the future". "The initiative explained Dimas will face 50 years of environmental policy, with the aim of pointing out successes and failures, to learn from them. It will also take into consideration the future challenges of Europe". (To be continued)
