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EU Livestock Strategy: A license to keep polluting local communities, water & nature

The European Commission today presented its Strategy for the Future of Livestock. When mounting challenges in agriculture demand a transition towards a more resilient, small-scale farming that cares both for people and nature, the strategy instead prioritises further industrialisation combined with greenwashed promises (including the permission of genetically-modified animals, the expansion of biogas and biomethane projects …

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EU lawmakers scrap basic rights for consumers, breeder, food sector

Today, the European Parliament failed to protect farmers, consumers and breeders in its final vote on new GMOs. A majority of MEPs decided to exclude the new generation of GMOs (so-called new genomic techniques) from all types of safety checks, traceability mechanisms and labelling, refusing to even bring patent safeguards back in.  Concretely it means …

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EU Roadmap ‘One Europe, One Market’: Member states giving in to the deregulation agenda driven by the European Commission

Today’s release of the ‘One Europe, One Market’ roadmap during the Informal European Council Summit marks another milestone in the EU’s rushed and relentless drive to get rid off the protections that ensure we drink clean water, eat healthy food and enjoy the nature that surrounds us. Undemocratic process Similar to what we have seen in the …

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EU vote on new GMOs: wrong for farmers, wrong for consumers, wrong for nature  

EU foreign affairs ministers have today endorsed the wide deregulation of a new generation of genetically-modified food and seeds (new GMOs,  or so-called “New Genomic Techniques”). It means they agreed to exclude them from existing labelling and safety check requirements, taking away farmers and consumers’ right to choose what they grow in their fields and …

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Citizens Energy Package: good intentions don’t build energy communities

The European Commission today published its long-awaited Citizens Energy Package, part of a broader effort to lower electricity costs and tackle energy poverty. Yet, the package is a drop in the ocean when it comes to offering support for clean, affordable and citizen-owned energy. With oil and gas prices once again under pressure from  war …

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