Europe’s largest grassroots environmental network has today, on “Earth Day”, launched a new campaign to demand better legal protection for areas wanting to ban genetically modified (GM) crops. Friends of the Earth Europe highlight that initiatives to ban GM crops are now running in at least 22 different European countries. (1) The campaign will increase …
Europe fails to find its feet after Copenhagen
Brussels, March 15 – European Environment Ministers met today to discuss the next steps after the failure of the UN conference in Copenhagen last December. While it is positive that they stick to the existing negotiating texts under the Kyoto Protocol as the basis for a future agreement, Friends of the Earth Europe believes that …
New campaign ‘pins down’ prospective MEPs
Brussels, April 29 – A Europe-wide campaign launched in Brussels today is challenging candidates in June’s European Parliament elections to show their support for a European Union that puts public interests before private profits. At www.electioncampaign.eu voters from all 27 EU member states can ‘pin down’ MEP candidates by asking them where they stand on …
Bayer, not taxpayers, must pay for GM rice testing in Europe
Brussels, 1 September 2006 – Friends of the Earth Europe today demanded that biotech giant Bayer finances all European food testing for its illegal genetically modified (GM) rice. EU member states are obliged to carry out testing of foods on their shelves following contamination of the food chain in the US with Bayer’s experimental GM …
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“Scrap Euratom!” demand Europeans
Brussels, March 23 – Ahead of the 50th anniversaries of the EU and its pro-nuclear Euratom Treaty [1], 780 organisations and 630,000 individuals have demanded abolition of Euratom and a phase-out of nuclear power across Europe. European Energy Commissioner Piebalgs received birthday presents packed with signatures today, and campaigners encouraged EU member states to consider …
EU Action Plan on organic food and farming: GMO co-existence means no existence for organics
Friends of the Earth Europe have challenged the European Commission to do more to protect organic farming from the contamination of genetically modified (GM) crops. Today (Thursday 22 January), the Commission is holding a one-day Hearing on the implementation of the EU Action Plan on Organic Food and Farming (1). Friends of the Earth Europe …
