Récemment élu par le magazine Stratégies comme animateur préféré des Français, Frédéric Lopez va se lancer dans un nouveau programme. Interviewé ce mardi dans Le Parisien, le présentateur a livré quelques informations sur cette future émission basée sur l’humour.

Depuis plusieurs années, Frédéric Lopez s’est installé dans le costume du gendre idéal. Et ce n’est pas le récent classement des animateurs préférés des Français qui viendra dire le contraire. Jugé proche des gens, chaleureux, innovant et sympathique par nos concitoyens, le présentateur n’en finit plus de séduire. Interrogé dans Le Parisien, ce mardi, Frédéric Lopez est revenu sur cette popularité. «Je suis comblé. Imaginer que le regard que je pose sur le monde et sur les gens est apprécié est un immense cadeau. Je me sens compris» explique-t-il. Le succès de son émissionLa Parenthèse Inattendue – plus d’1,3 millions de téléspectateurs de moyenne depuis début avril – n’a fait que renforcer cette opinion. Malheureusement pour tous les fans, l’animateur confie que l’émission ne sera plus diffusée en hebdo à partir de la rentrée: «L’émission va s’arrêter à ce rythme hebdomadaire, très exigeant. Je rêve qu’elle continue, par exemple dans le cadre d’une collection ou de prime times». Ce dernier précise également qu’un nouveau programme devrait bientôt voir le jour sur France 2 : «J’ai présenté à la chaîne une nouvelle idée sur laquelle je travaille depuis deux ans. Il s’agira d’une émission profonde et légère avec des humoristes». Un domaine que connaît bien Frédéric Lopez pour avoir animé pendant quelques temps On va tous y passer sur France Inter. «J’ai adoré travailler avec eux sur France Inter. Mais je ne ferai pas une adaptation à la télé de ce que j’ai fait à la radio. Il y aura beaucoup de rire et de sens et cela ne ressemblera à rien de ce que l’on a déjà vu» précise le Palois. Un format inédit qui pourrait bien selon l’animateur «trouver sa place le samedi». Une chose est sûre: Frédéric Lopez n’a pas fini d’égayer nos soirées.

Il faudra attendre le 17 juin prochain pour écouter A.K.A., le huitième album de Jennifer Lopez. La chanteuse a tout de même dévoilé l’un des éléments de ce futur opus : la pochette, sur laquelle elle apparaît sexy en diable.

De gros bijoux en or. Un ensemble en cuir rouge, très serré au niveau des cuisses et ajouré au niveau de la poitrine, le haut ressemblant plus à un harnais qu’à autre chose. Des boucles bien visibles viennent fermer les sangles qui compressent ses seins. La tenue de Jennifer Lopez, habituée à enflammer les foules, ne laissera personne indifférent.

Le reste de la pochette est assez sobre : sur un fond rouge apparaissent simplement le nom stylisé de l’artiste – J-Lo – et le titre de l’album, A.K.A.Ce qui frappe alors c’est l’intensité donnée au regard de la chanteuse, deux yeux perçants et presque agressifs, qui semblent défier les fans de Jennifer Lopez en leur intimant d’écouter cet album s’ils l’osent. Cette simplicité met en valeur la chanteuse, qui clame haut et fort qu’elle n’a jamais eu recours à la chirurgie esthétique.

Conjointement à la sortie de A.K.A., la bomba latina sera la grande star de la Coupe du Monde 2014, dont elle interprète l’hymne. C’est une année bien chargée qui s’annonce pour Jennifer Lopez puisqu’elle jouera aussi un rôle dans Shades of blue, une série dont elle est la productrice.

Pour la première fois de son histoire, l’Académie française a ouvert ses portes à un écrivain anglais. Sir Michael Edwards s’est assis sur son fauteuil d’Immortel ce jeudi 22 mai.

Depuis ce matin, le fauteuil 31 de l’Académie française est à nouveau occupé. Mais, pour la première fois, par un Anglais. Un peu plus d’un mois après l’arrivée contestée d’Alain Finkielkraut, Michael Edwards a fait ses premiers pas sous la Coupole. Ce poète essayiste britannique de 76 ans a été élu en février 2013 au fauteuil du regretté Jean Dutourd. Et, dès son discours d’introduction, le nouveau venu a prouvé qu’il était le digne représentant de l’humour d’outre-Manche.

« En m’ouvrant la porte de votre illustre Compagnie, vous accueillez en votre sein bien pire qu’un étranger: un Anglais », a-t-il clamé face au parterre d’Immortels réunis pour l’occasion. Après un discours réussi, empreint de son amour pour la littérature française, Michael Edwards a reçu l’honneur de se voir brosser le portrait par l’un de ses nouveaux camarades, Frédéric Vitoux. « Monsieur, nous mesurons la portée de l’événement. Un Anglais sous la Coupole! Un Anglais à l’Académie française! Qui l’eût jamais soupçonné? C’est un bouleversement! Que dis-je, une secousse, un séisme, voire une révolution! »

Sir Michael Edwards n’a donc pas fini d’entendre parler de sa nationalité. Car, non content d’être un sujet d’Elisabeth II, il est également Officier de l’Empire britannique. La reine l’anoblira d’ailleurs personnellement lors de son passage en France pour les commémorations du débarquement allié. S’il a été choisi pour porter l’habit vert et l’épée des académiciens, c’est parce que l’écrivain est sûrement le plus français de tous les auteurs anglais. A la fin de ses études à l’université de Cambridge, il rédige son doctorat sur le thème de l’œuvre de Jean Racine. En 2002, il devient déjà le premier Anglais élu au Collège de France. Aujourd’hui, il marque à nouveau l’histoire de nos deux pays. Comme l’a dit l’Immortel Frédéric Vitoux en s’adressant à Michael Edwards, « Votre véritable biographie, c’est le passage, le balancement, la coexistence en vous de l’anglais et du français, le côté de Shakespeare et le côté de Racine ».

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Lola Bessis, en plus d’être la fille de l’animatrice Daniela Lumbroso, présente en ce moment son premier long-métrage, Swim Little Fish Swim. L’occasion pour la jeune femme de se faire connaître du public français.

Comparée à Julie Delpy par un Laurent Ruquier enthousiaste, Lola Bessis commence tout juste à se faire un nom auprès du grand public. Du haut de ses 23 ans, cette jeune comédienne au regard envoûtant présente actuellement son tout premier film, Swim Little Fish Swim. Non seulement la jeune Française y joue l’un des rôles principaux, mais elle coréalise et coécrit aussi ce premier long-métrage de sa carrière. Le film, tourné à New York, aborde la relation complexe d’un couple formé par une infirmière, plutôt sérieuse, et un musicien, plutôt artiste. L’arrivée dans leur petit appartement d’une jeune étudiante française de 19 ans (Lola Bessis), fille d’un célèbre peintre, va venir perturber l’ordre établi.

Le film a été très bien reçu par les journalistes spécialisés. Le fait que sa mère ne soit autre que la célèbre présentatrice de télévision Daniela Lumbroso n’a pas dû desservir Lola Bessis. Mais ce n’est pas pour autant la seule raison de dire du bien de ce long-métrage. Pas évident de se faire un nom à soi, dans l’ombre d’une mère si célèbre. Voilà peut-être l’une des raisons qui ont poussé la jeune femme à faire ses valises pour l’étranger. Après des études en Hypokhâgne-Khâgne suivies dans sa ville d’origine, Paris, Lola se rend un temps en Angleterre avant de rejoindre la célèbre université new-yorkaise The New School. La voilà désormais à l’affiche de son premier long-métrage qui sort aujourd’hui sur les écrans français. Reste à savoir si le public sera aussi enthousiaste que les critiques.

Natasha St-Pier a annoncé au micro d’Europe 1 vendredi son envie de quitter le monde du petit écran. L’émission Les chansons d’abord reste programmée pour la rentrée 2014 et sera reprise par Dave.

Dave sera toujours sur nos écrans télévisés à la rentrée, mais il change de crèmerie. L’artiste a en effet annoncé courant mai qu’il se retirait du jury du télécrochet de M6, La France a un incroyable talent, après quatre saisons. Il reprendra sur le service public, avec pour mission de remplacer Natasha St-Pier dans Les chansons d’abord. Cette émission hebdomadaire est diffusée le dimanche sur France 3.

L’interprète de Vanina espère pouvoir « imprimer [sa] marque à l’émission » sans être « trop caustique »: « je suis l’hôte, je dois rester raisonnable ». Dave est en effet familier du petit écran, pour avoir commenté, entre autres, l’Eurovision. Pour cette rentrée 2014, l’émission connaîtra une évolution de son contenu et une éventuelle modification de son intitulé.

De son côté, Natasha St-Pier n’a pas souhaité rempiler pour une nouvelle saison. La chanteuse souhaite privilégier avant tout sa carrière musicale. Son emploi du temps à la télévision, entre la préparation et le tournage, ne lui permettait pas de se consacrer à plein temps à son projet artistique.

Une décision qu’elle juge avoir été « difficile à prendre », mais elle n’a « jamais caché aux dirigeants de la chaîne [qu’elle] ferait toujours passer [sa] carrière de chanteuse en premier ». Natasha St-Pier estimait qu’il fallait faire un choix, prise par la réalisation de son nouvel album et de ses deux tournées, sans compter ses interventions à l’étranger.

Afin de promouvoir la chaîne BBC Music et pour une bonne action, les plus gros vendeurs de disques du moment ont uni leurs voix sur un titre déjà connu de tous.

Les nostalgiques de We are the world et son casting d’interprètes 5 étoiles vont trouver dans la reprise de God only knows le nouveau titre préféré de leur automne. À l’initiative de BBC Music, des dizaines de chanteurs anglophones se sont retrouvés autour de cette chanson à l’origine interprétée par les Beach Boys en 1966.

Cette réunion de stars en musique est accompagnée d’un clip, diffusé depuis hier à la télévision anglaise et sur internet. Pharrell Williams a l’honneur d’être le premier à s’élancer sur la chanson, puis vient le tour d’Emilie Sande, Elton John, Lorde, Chris Martin, Kylie Minogue, Stevie Wonder, les One Direction et tant d’autres. En tout 27 artistes ont répondu présents à l’opération et se passent le relais dans le clip de God only knows. Dans un théâtre envahi par la nature, les artistes jouent avec les éléments. Elton John devient un arbre à papillon tandis que Kylie Minogue survole le public dans une bulle de savon et la jolie Lorde se sent littéralement pousser des ailes.

Pour annoncer sa “vague de programmes ambitieux, de partenariats novateurs et de révolutions musicales” la chaîne musicale de la BBC ne s’est donc rien refusée. Tous ces artistes d’envergure internationale ont soufflé avec joie les 30 ans de la chaîne britannique mais se sont également investis dans ce projet, pour la bonne cause.

En effet, la BBC assure qu’elle reversera le bénéfice des ventes de God only knows à l’association Children in need, sorte de Téléthon anglais.

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Left-wing Hollywood stars have spent the past two years spreading wild conspiracy theories about President Donald Trump and Russian “collusion,” with a slew of celebrities calling him a “traitor,” a “puppet,” a “thug,” a “urine-lapper” for Putin and predicting that he will be “in chains” soon.

Many Hollywood stars made these accusations following Trump’s press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland. Others accused Trump of treason for no apparent reason at all.

Yet, according to the Attorney General William Barr’s letter to Congress Sunday, special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence whatsoever of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia during the 2016 election.

Here are 50 Hollywood stars who participated in the conspiracy smear campaign against the president.

“HE’S A TRAITOR; HE HAS SOLD HIMSELF, AND SOON HE WILL SELL US,” Bette Midler panicked in July.

Rosie O’Donnell, like many in Hollywood, called Trump’s summit a “#TreasonSummit.”

“Arrest Trump when Air Force One lands. I want to see him in chains,” filmmaker Michael Moore said.

Actor John Cusack declared Trump “treasonous from day 1”

Barbra Streisand shared a New York Times article that called Trump a “treasonous traitor.”

“Kim Jong-un, please come through those doors, join @realDonaldTrump & Putin on this #TreasonSummit stage and take this song & dance show over the top,” Jeffrey Wright said.

“This moron, puppet, coward sided with Putin over our own intelligence agencies! On a world stage!! BASED ON NOTHING MORE THAN PUTIN’S WORD! Why?? Can ANYONE answer that?? What the hell is happening. Politics aside, this is 100% un-American. Where are you GOP????” actor Chris Evans said.

Late-night hosts went nuts, with CBS’ Stephen Colbert calling the Helsinki meeting “treasonous.” Jimmy Kimmel also piled on Trump at the time, and has since repeated the insinuation that Trump has committed treason. The View‘s Joy Behar also accused Trump of “treason” over the press conference with Putin.

In December, TBS late-night crank Samantha Bee also repeated the “treason” smear against the commander-in-chief.

Since 2017, HBO’s Bill Maher has made similar accusations against Trump, which he repeated this year.

Rob Reiner also recently accused Trump of treason, saying in an unhinged social media post that the president is “committing Treason against The United States of America.”

“He is aiding and abetting the enemy in The War against Isis and The Cyberwar against Russia. He has turned the world’s oldest Democracy into a wholly owned subsidiary of Vladimir Putin. GOP, WAKE UP!”

In one of his deranged social media posts last month, Jim Carrey accused Trump of “child imprisonment, money laundering, racism, misogyny, infidelity, environmental rape, and high treason.”

“TrumPutin 2020. We are no longer running against the GOP we are running against Russia and the GOP. ‘Collusion is okay,’” Mark Ruffalo said in 2017.

Prior to the 2016 election, actor Adam Scott was already smearing Trump.

“It’s like a Nixon being mad about not having more pro Nixon sketches during Watergate. Our President committed treason and it’s not going to be about sketches,” Judd Apatow said last year.

Actress-turned-activist Debra Messing accused Trump of “putting PRO-RUSSIA agenda BEFORE the United States best interests” in September.

“Putin is giving trump talking points and actions to take to help undermine the very country he is from. We have a domestic enemy running our country pissing on about allies who shows fealty only to Putin. This is not America. This is Russia,” Netflix host Chelsea Handler said last year.

Pop star Cher accused Trump of being “a Liar,Thug, Crook,Traitor” who’s “ruining” America.

“Look at Putin…just pulling those strings. realDonaldTrump puppet,” Wanda Sykes said.

“president Punk just sold out his country. And more importantly ours-The USA,” Michael Keaton said.

“Today Trump formally surrendered the US to Russia,” Patricia Arquette declared.

“Today, July 16th, 2018, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly & deliberately attacked & betrayed by our “President”. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us all true patriots. #TreasonSummit #PresidentAsset” Mark Hamill said.

“To think Putin only has a pee tape at this point seems unrealistic. I mean, Trump is certainly a urine-lapper (I mean, how else did he get HIS nickname, #UrineLappingDonny), but for Trump to be this submissive to Putin, there must be something more. #TreasonSummit,” disgraced filmmaker James Gunn said.

SNL faux-Trump Alec Baldwin accused Trump of “treason” over his plan to cut taxes.

Author Stephen King accused Trump of being “in Putin’s pocket” because he congratulated his election victory.

Even minor stars got in on the action. Rapper Ice Cube called for Trump to be arrested, calling him “Russian intelligence,” while Sons of Anarchy star Ron Perlman simply predicted that Trump will soon be “in chains”.

Check out all the Hollywood conspiracy mongering.

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Today at Commission: Plastics, taxes and education

Aid for Rohingya refugees also announced.

What’s happening this week: The European Commission College is traveling to Strasbourg.

On the agenda: The Commission will introduce its Plastics Strategy on Tuesday, which will include a communication as well as a monitoring framework legislative proposal regarding waste from ships.

Value-added tax and fair taxation: Pierre Moscovici, the European commissioner for economic affairs, will introduce the Commission’s plans on Thursday, followed by a progress report on risk reduction in the banking sector on non-performing loans.

Education: The Commission will also announce an education plan, following up on Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s pledges at the Gothenburg Social Summit last year, including a digital education action plan and proposals for “lifelong learning.” The press briefing will be on Wednesday at noon.

Refugees: The Commission also announced a €5 million program to support Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, whose numbers have swollen to more than half a million, fleeing violence in their native Myanmar.

Commission won’t talk about: The Romanian prime minister threatening ethnic Hungarians, the situation in Iran, or the topics of conversation at a meeting later Monday between the EU’s chief Brexit negotiatior Michel Barnier and British MPs who rebelled on Brexit against Prime Minister Theresa May’s government.

On U.S. President Donald Trump’s “shithole countries” comment: Quoting Juncker, Commission spokesman Alexander Winterstein said: “‘Our partnership is an investment in our shared future … we support each other, and help each other if possible.’ That’s what Juncker thinks about Africa.”

An upcoming book reveals former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) has returned to attacking President Donald Trump’s character, taking particular offense to his dismissive nickname for pornographic actress Stormy Daniels.

Politico Magazine’s Tim Alberta writes in American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump that Ryan “Now out of office and trading in his power suits for a blue vest” is once again criticizing the president and “saw retirement as the ‘escape hatch,’” according to an excerpt obtained by the Washington Post.

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“We’ve gotten so numbed by it all,” Ryan said. “Not in government, but where we live our lives, we have a responsibility to try and rebuild. Don’t call a woman a ‘horse face.’ Don’t cheat on your wife. Don’t cheat on anything. Be a good person. Set a good example.”

President Trump ridiculed Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, in October 2018 after a federal judge dismissed her defamation lawsuit against him, tweeting: “Great, now I can go after Horseface and her 3rd rate lawyer in the Great State of Texas.” In January 2018, a Wall Street Journal report alleged that Daniels, prior to the 2016 presidential election, was paid $130,000 to sign a nondisclosure agreement regarding an affair with the president in 2006.

The book details how Ryan was frustrated with the president’s approach to governing.

“I told myself I gotta have a relationship with this guy to help him get his mind right,” the former speaker recounted. “Because, I’m telling you, he didn’t know anything about government… I wanted to scold him all the time.”

“Those of us around him really helped to stop him from making bad decisions. All the time,” he continued. “We helped him make much better decisions, which were contrary to kind of what his knee-jerk reaction was. Now I think he’s making some of these knee-jerk reactions.”

President Trump, according to the book, is largely dismissive of Ryan’s attacks, often referring to him as a “fucking Boy Scout.”

Ryan retired from the House in January after serving three years as the chamber’s speaker. Under his watch, Republicans lost a House majority in the 2018 midterm election. Since leaving Congress, he joined Fox Corp. as a member of its board of directors.

It’s no secret that President Trump and Ryan shared an uneasy relationship. In an interview with the Daily Caller, the president blamed the Wisconsin Republican for failing secure funding from Congress to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

“Well, I was going to veto the omnibus bill and Paul told me in the strongest of language, ‘Please don’t do that, we’ll get you the wall.’ And I said, ‘I hope you mean that, because I don’t like this bill,’” the president told the outlet.

“Paul told me in the strongest of terms that, ‘Please sign this and if you sign this we will get you that wall.’ Which is desperately needed by our country. Humanitarian crisis, trafficking, drugs, you know, everything — people, criminals, gangs, so, you know, we need the wall,” he added. “And then he went lame duck.”

In October 2016, Breitbart News published audio in which Ryan pledged not to defend then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump following the release of the Access Hollywood tape. “His comments are not anywhere in keeping with our party’s principles and values,” Ryan is heard telling Republican lawmakers during a conference call. “There are basically two things that I want to make really clear, as for myself as your Speaker. I am not going to defend Donald Trump—not now, not in the future. As you probably heard, I disinvited him from my first congressional district GOP event this weekend—a thing I do every year.”

Of course, President Trump went on to defeat his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton despite Ryan’s desertion.

Pesticides made by some of Europe’s agrichemical giants can have a negative effect on the health of honeybees, according to the Continent’s top food safety agency.

Draft findings from the European Food Safety Authority feed into a long-running, heated and so far inconclusive debate into why Europe’s bee populations are in decline.

The EU will vote as soon as next week on whether to extend a ban on three chemicals — known as neonicotinoids — which are accused of crippling insects’ nervous systems and decimating bee colonies. Earlier this year the issue gained so much attention that European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he was “the best-known friend of the bees in Luxembourg” and that he would do everything in his power to prevent further decline.

EFSA has been looking at data on neonicotinoids since 2015, though the vast majority of the data on the risks posed by the substances was deemed inconclusive. But according to draft documents seen by POLITICO, one of the substances — imidacloprid, which is manufactured by Germany’s Bayer — could pose a danger to bees.

“The data for honeybee colony strength clearly indicate a tendency for a negative deviation from the [scientific] control, suggesting that exposure to imidacloprid can have a negative effect on honeybee colonies,” states one of the documents, which are drafts and subject to change. The agency said two other substances — Syngenta’s thiamethoxam and Bayer’s clothianidin — posed a “small to negligible negative” effect on honeybee colonies.

“The data for honeybee colony strength, in general, appears to indicate a small to negligible negative deviation [from the scientific control]. However, owing to the high level of biological variability observed both within the studies and across studies and the low reliability of the endpoints, it is considered that this can only be considered as a tentative indication,” the review states in the case of clothianidin.

EFSA was also at the heart of a debate over the safety of the herbicide glyphosate, which it deemed to be safe despite widespread claims from environmentalists that some of the science the agency used was not declared as being commissioned by Monsanto, the weedkiller’s main producer. And another agency linked the glyphosate to cancer.

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The EU imposed a partial ban on three neonicotinoids in 2013 following EFSA findings that their use contributes to bee deaths. The ban made sure that neonicotinoid pesticides were prohibited for use on crops deemed to be attractive to bees and on cereals. Some uses in greenhouses and on winter crops were permitted pending submission of additional data. EFSA has since reviewed more than 750 individual studies.

Even after assessing the data for winter crops, EFSA does not seem to be any nearer to determining how dangerous the pesticides are.

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For instance, in the case of thiamethoxam, “the available data do not offer a picture of clear effects.” For clothianidin use during the winter, EFSA said the data offer only a “tentative indication” of its “negligible” effects on bees. For imidacloprid, EFSA drew more negative conclusions, stating that “the data for honeybee colony strength after overwintering indicates a clear tendency for a negative deviation with a dose-response pattern.”

The EFSA findings are hardly likely to aid policymakers in determining whether to extend the ban on the three pesticides. Health experts from EU countries will meet in Brussels as part of the  European Commission’s Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed on December 12 and may vote to extend the ban, although that isn’t yet certain. The Commission needs a majority of countries to favor extending the ban to implement its proposal.

Earlier this year, POLITICO reported that several EU member countries were flouting the ban by using loopholes in EU law that grant exceptions to farmers and pesticide producers, allowing them to use neonicotinoids should yields fall too quickly as a result of not being able to use the chemicals.

Farmers across the EU — from sunflower growers in Bulgaria to oilseed rape growers in the U.K. — argue the pesticide ban has backfired, causing their crops to be devoured by bugs such as flea beetles and wireworms. What’s more, the agricultural lobby Copa Cogeca in Brussels says that in many cases, the ban has forced farmers to turn to even more potent forms of pest control.

Environmentalists, however, point out that official data show yields for oilseed rape across the EU have gone up since the 2013 ban came in. For example, in both 2015 and 2017 good yields were achieved above the five-year average. Production levels for oilseed rape have also increased with levels reaching 34.8 million tons in 2017, higher than the five-year average.

An EFSA spokesperson said the agency does not comment on documents it has not publicly released. The spokesperson added that the “assessments are currently with member state experts for consultation and will be finalized in February 2018 as recently announced.”

Syngenta declined to comment on the documents. But Bayer fired back by criticizing EFSA’s forthcoming review. The company said that EFSA’s findings are not valid because they are based on the agency’s so-called Bee Guidance Document, which provides rules on how to assess the potential risks to honeybees, bumblebees and solitary bees from the use of pesticides.

The pesticide industry complains that the document is outdated and that its pesticide substance does not result in harm to honeybee colonies when applied correctly and using proper pest management techniques.

“From our point of view, to ensure a just assessment of the three neonicotinoids, it is of pivotal importance that the current draft Guidance Document be reviewed and approved before any decisions concerning future restrictions are taken on its basis,” Bayer’s head of external communications, Utz Klages, said in an email.

Klages also said a study from earlier this year looking into the substances imidacloprid, clothianidin and thiamethoxam discovered seed treatments do not result in harm to honeybee colonies when applied correctly.

“We remain convinced of the evidence showing that neonicotinoids do not pose an unacceptable risk to bees when applied responsibly and properly in accordance with the label instructions,” he said.

Martin Dermine, pollinators project coordinator for the Pesticide Action Network Europe, which opposes the use of neonicotinoids, said the EFSA findings were in line with work carried out by the agency in 2012.

“Despite the high biological variability, EFSA is able, in many cases, to identify clear trends,” he said. “In our view, the draft reports confirm that the available science confirms the European Commission’s proposal to ban these three insecticides from open fields.”