#Bijen In April, FTM revealed how European protection of bees in Brussels backrooms threatens to die. Since then, Dutch MEPs have not sat still: a special hearing on the bee guideline took place in the European Parliament last month..
MEPs now want to try to stop the weakening.

Remarkably united they were, the Members of the European Parliament. At a special hearing on the European bee guideline on 25 September, parliamentarians spoke from left to right about the state of affairs. 'Delay, delay, delay; that's all we see so tomor', Bas Eickhout from GroenLinks. He received the support of Swedish Social Democrat Jytte Guteland: 'we do not want to delay (...), but action, action, action.Guteland called it absurd at the hearing in Brussels that Bee Guidance has still not been introduced after six years of discussion, while bee populations in Europe are continuing to decline.

'We should not walk into the box of the chemistry lobby', also warned Slovenian Christian Democrat Ljudmila Novak about

MEPs oppose chemistry lobby