Malta should place a temporary ban on shooting down turtledoves which are facing extinction due to hunting and other pressures, said the EU’s environment commissioner.

In October, turtledoves were put on the Red List of species threatened with extinction held by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. The agency blames a 30% decrease in turtledove populations across Europe on hunting, agricultural intensification and disease, and says that more research is needed.

Respite could be on the way for the people of Corsica as one of the island’s main militant groups has vowed to end “military operations” in October.

The National Liberation Front of Corsica (FLNC) has been seeking independence from France since 1976.  This group laid down its weapons two years ago.

The founder a far-right pressure group has been convicted for inciting hatred.

Lutz Bachmann, the head of the anti-Islamic Pediga group, was found guilty of a court in Dresden on Tuesday. Dresden is the home of the group whose name stands for “Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West”.

Leaked text shows the objective of the US is to undermine EU environment and health protection laws in pursuits of trade. Greenpeace Netherlands has obtained 248 pages of leaked Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiating texts which will be published in full today.

The documents unveil for the first time the US position and "its deliberate attempts to change the EU democratic legislative process" caims Greenpeace.

The High Court of Justice of England and Wales has given permission for lawyers acting for two British citizens, fighting a legal battle for the right to vote in the EU 'Brexit' Referendum, to take their case to the Court of Appeal on May 9th.
 
On April 28, 2016 Lord Justice Lloyd Jones, sitting with Mr Justice Blake, rejected the legal challenge taken by 94-year-old Harry Shindler, a WWII veteran who lives in Italy, and lawyer and Belgian resident Jacquelyn MacLennan against the UK Government’s decision to exclude from the June vote those Britons who have lived elsewhere in the European Union for more than 15 years.

Members of the public in Portugal already have been contaminated with glyphosate, a herbicide that is 'potentially carcinogenic', according to an increasing number of European health bodies.

High levels have been detected in people in the north and centre of the country with the average concentration per person about twenty times of that found in Swiss and German citizens, according to a report broadcast on Portugal's  RTP TV station.

The old Monchique Longevity Wellness Resort is scheduled to reopen this month after a €5 million refit, claims the new operator, Macdonald Hotels & Resorts.

The original resort, built on a bend in the road below Caldas, closed in 2014 and is said to have been taken over by ‘a consortium’ with the Scottish hotel and leisure group managing the new business.

Portugal’s well padded telecoms companies have responded to reports of ever increasing prices by claiming that consumers now get more for their money.

Telecommunications prices in Portugal have risen more than all the EU countries surveyed, data from Ireland, Denmark and Sweden was not available, according to the latest Anacom survey which shows the trend has been a constant over the last five years.