Commission consults on circular economy

Despite opposition from the European Parliament, several member states and a number of stakeholders, in February the Juncker Commission withdrew a communication on the transition to a circular economy and a proposal on the revision and merging into a single text of the directives on waste management presented by the previous Commission in September 2014. The Juncker Commission's objective is to present a new, "more ambitious" strategy on the circular economy by the end of 2015. Therefore, it launched a…