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The next round of negotiations for a free trade agreement between the EU and Indonesia start today in Solo, Indonesia. Civil society organisations from Europe and Indonesia, including Friends of the Earth Europe and Friends of the Earth Indonesia, will meet in parallel to discuss the consequences of a potential agreement. Friends of the Earth Europe …
Civil society set out demands at EU-Indonesia trade negotiationsRead more
Friends of the Earth Europe, ActionAid and Global Witness have welcomed the EU’s latest action on sustainable finance, but warned that tougher action is needed to ensure that Europe’s financial sector includes robust regulatory safeguards. “Although there are some positive proposals in this report, it is significantly less ambitious than we had hoped,” explains Anne …
CEE Bankwatch Network, Counter Balance, Friends of the Earth Europe, 350.org The European Investment Bank (EIB) voted today to hand out one of Europe’s largest ever loans to one of the EU’s largest fossil fuel projects, the contentious Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP). The loan approval follows the release of a study last week demonstrating that …
The European Commission today announced new subsidies for fossil fuels, with nearly €200 million for gas projects, as part of a larger package of energy investments for 2018. This new pledge takes the total financing for fossil fuel infrastructure under the EU’s flagship fund for energy infrastructure, the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), to over €1.3 …
Commission issues €200m new subsidies for fossil fuelsRead more
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) today gave the first indication of how it will classify foods and crops derived from new genetic engineering techniques. The opinion issued by one of the ECJ’s Advocates General noted that even if all food and crops derived from new GM techniques were to be considered genetically modified organisms …
The European Parliament today voted its position on EU energy goals for 2030, backing out of the level of action needed to combat climate change. MEPs voted on three files of the ‘Clean Energy Package’ of climate legislation for the next crucial decade for climate action. The positions adopted today will now be taken forward …
