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Greener in Europe? Four reasons the EU can't be trusted on the environment

Steffen Böhm, The Conversation

07 June 2016 • 5 min read

Steffen Böhm of the University of Exeter argues the EU is far from being the kind of unalloyed environmental champion it is often presented as

Those in favour of Britain's continued membership of the European Union - although strangely not the UK government's official campaign to remain in - are increasingly highlighting the contribution Brussels...

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