Brussels, March 21st – The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU (ALTER-EU) welcomes the European Commission’s second Communication on the European Transparency Initiative as an important step in the right direction. But given the global relevance of the EU and the influence of organised lobby groups on EU policies, the voluntary …
Lobbying transparency still out of sight
Brussels, 23 April 2009 – A shared transparency register and code of conduct for lobbyists proposed by the European Parliament and Commission [1] will fail to shed more light on lobbying in Brussels transparency campaigners warned today. The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) welcomes the principle of a joint register but believes …
Sixty percent of EU lobbying consultancies not signed up to European Commission’s lobby transparency register
Brussels, 11 March 2010 – Almost two years after the European Commission launched a voluntary lobby transparency register, sixty per cent of EU lobbying consultancies are still not registered, a survey published today by the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) reveals. [1] The group has called on EU officials, including the responsible …
EU plans to allow GM crops in through the back door
Brussels, 6 September – Friends of the Earth is calling on the European Commission to halt proposals that would allow farmers to commercially grow up to 17 different types of genetically modified (GM) maize seeds in fields across the whole of Europe. The Commission, which is meeting in Brussels on Wednesday 8 September, also wants …
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European Parliament agriculture experts call for more self-sufficiency in animal feeds
Brussels, January 26 – The European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee voted today on a report calling for European farmers to be given more support to grow their own feed crops and to reduce their dependency on imported animal feed. Currently European livestock farming is dependent on imported soy as an animal feed, whose production is a …
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EU fuelling human right disaster in Indonesia
Brussels, 11 February, 2008 – Palm oil production for food and agrofuels is resulting in widespread human rights abuses in Indonesia according to a report released today by a coalition of international environmental groups [1]. Losing Ground exposes the huge social problems being fuelled by EU targets to increase the use of agrofuels (often called …
