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Brussels Forum this weekend

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

This weekend, GMF is hosting with its partners the third annual Brussels Forum, a gathering of political, academic, and business leaders to debate the countless items on the transatlantic agenda. Public sessions will be streamed live in video and audio from Brussels, and transcripts and video for … Continue Reading…

Fight Drugs and Global Warming Together

Friday, September 14th, 2007

WASHINGTON — The news from Afghanistan on the counter-narcotics front is bad.  Opium production from Afghanistan’s 408,000 acres of poppy rose almost 50% in 2006, contributing to global heroin production that set a new record high of 606 metric tons in 2006.  The effort to stop the growing and production … Continue Reading…

EU Plans to Foster International Trade in Biofuels

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

At an international biofuels conference hosted in Brussels last week, the EU Commission announced that imports will be an important policy tool in order to reach the EU’s ambitious goal of a 10% biofuels share by 2020. This came at a point when serious … Continue Reading…