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Today, Environmental Rights Action, Amnesty International, and Friends of the Earth Europe called for the immediate clean-up of oil pollution in Ogoniland in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, in line with recommendations made by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in its landmark 2011 study of the region. One year since the Nigerian Government officially launched a …
Clean-up of oil pollution in the Niger Delta must finally beginRead more
Friends of the Earth Europe welcomes a decision by the European Court of Justice that trade agreements with investment provisions need to receive the scrutiny of national parliaments. The ruling comes at a time when citizens across Europe are increasingly concerned about the negative impacts of modern trade agreements, such as CETA and TTIP. They …
EU’s top court rules for stronger democratic scrutiny of trade agreementsRead more
The European Commission today released new proposals for how the European Union deals with globalization issues. Paul de Clerck from Friends of the Earth Europe reacted to the ‘Harnessing Globalisation’ paper: “This is a positive step from the European Commission which is finally acknowledging that globalization comes with great costs for workers, the environment and …
EU trade policy should focus on environment and human rightsRead more
Friends of the Earth Europe has today sharply criticised the decision by European regulators to approve the merger of Dow Chemicals and DuPont. The approval paves the way for the creation of the world’s biggest agri-chemical and seed company. Over 200 organisations this week expressed their opposition to the current consolidations in the agribusiness sector …
European Commission gives green light to world’s biggest agribusiness companyRead more
Friends of the Earth Europe staged a ‘marriage made in hell’ outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels today to symbolise the threat to food and farming posed by the planned merger of the agriculture and chemical companies Bayer and Monsanto. Environmentalists, farmers, farmworkers, beekeepers, and religious and international development groups are all opposed to …
Opposition mounts to ‘marriage made in hell’ Bayer-Monsanto mega-mergerRead more
More than 200 organisations have today raised their objections to the planned mergers of six giant agriculture corporations. The farmer, farmworker, beekeeper, religious, international development, and environmental groups claim that the three resulting companies will concentrate market power and “exacerbate the problems caused by industrial farming – with negative consequences for the public, farmers and …
Opposition rises to planned agriculture mega-mergersRead more
