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Europe clings to its moratorium on GM products, rejecting a recent Commission proposal to give the green light to Swiss Syngenta’s biotech sweetcorn

  A growing resistance
 
As Europe tenuously clings to its ban on genetically modified crops, agricultural regions around Greece campaign in support

Amid continuing European ambivalence over the introduction of genetically modified (GM) crops and intense international pressure on the EU to lift its 5-year de facto ban on such products, a series of homegrown movements against GMO’s has begun to take root in important agricultural regions around Greece.


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Environmental Policy    
A growing resistance   As Europe tenuously clings to its ban on genetically modified crops, agricultural regions around Greece campaign in support  
Sunlight by night   Some 100 bus stops around Thessaloniki city now illuminated by stored solar power  
Putting the lid on trash   Faced with a stinking record, Greece is trying to make illegal dumps history  
         
Ecology    
Lesson one: ecology   Cold is kept at bay in a remote village school using geothermal energy  
Golden opportunity for Greece's jackals   WWF campaigning to change public's negative image of the golden jackal  
Olympic organisers declare victory in battle of Marathon   Controversial Athens 2004 rowing venue wins European Commission approval  
         
Science & Technology    
High-tech haven   An alliance of 139 companies are investing in a new technology/ corporate park in Attika  
Cretan 'Cyclops' found   A large tusk fossil found in eastern Crete astounds paleontologists  
Ancient yet so modern   Whether for war, measurement, building or pleasure, the ancients resorted to technology as much as we do  
         
 


    
 
 
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