Jessika Roswall
Sweden's EU Minister
Photo: News Øresund, Malmö, Sweden, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons, cropped)
- 3d ago
Moedas calls for review of Lisbon's Volta bottle deposit scheme over drug problems
In Brussels on Wednesday, 14 October 2026, the Lisbon mayor said the 10-cent bottle refund is causing serious social problems and that the Commission has agreed to back a technical meeting on the issue.
- Oct 4
German Environment Minister urges states to direct infrastructure funds into water management
Federal Environment Minister Carsten Schneider called on German states to invest part of a 100 billion euro federal infrastructure fund into water retention systems following low river levels on the Rhine and Danube.
