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Letter: Don’t trade forests for the EU-Mercosur deal

14/11/2023

Trade cannot be an excuse for weakening environmental laws. Friends of the Earth Europe joins other environmental and human rights organisations in sending a letter to the European Commission, calling on Commissioners to resist attempts to water down the EU’s forest protection rules in favour of trade agreements.

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Joint statement for an ambitious pesticides law that protects people & nature

01/11/2023

We, the undersigned already more than 75 organisations, representing environment, health and consumers organizations, drinking water suppliers, farmers and agricultural workers, call upon all EU Member States and Members of the European Parliament to support and adopt a strong Sustainable Use of Pesticides Regulation (SUR) without further delays. Securing robust and coherent provisions in the …

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Cold homes, hot profits: How polluters persuade politicians to put profits before people

25/10/2023

Across Europe’s capitals, fossil fuel companies and lobby groups have been pulling out all the stops to influence governments’ responses to the energy crisis, sabotaging policies that could help millions of people struggling to pay their bills. All so they can protect their staggering windfall profits (the profits of the big five oil majors’ more …

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Response to European Commission repeats call for a post-growth Europe

04/10/2023

In this response to the European Commission’s reaction on our Open Letter calling for a Post-Growth Europe, Friends of the Earth Europe and allied organisations and academics renew their demand for the EU to disengage from the socially and ecologically harmful growth competition and instead embrace a wellbeing cooperation. Authored by:Timothée ParriqueKate RaworthVincent Liegey To:Ursula …

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7 reasons to stop the EU-Mercosur trade deal

02/10/2023

After more than 20 years of negotiations, the European Union and Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay) reached a free trade agreement in 2019. If ratified, it would become one of the largest trade deals in the world. This corporate-friendly deal would boost the trade in harmful products between the two regions by removing most of …

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Joint position paper on the EU Critical Raw Materials Act

25/07/2023

We have joined with 42 civil society organisations to write and sign on to a position paper with our views on the European Commission’s proposed EU Critical Raw Materials Act and how it needs to be improved by the European Parliament and Member States. This includes that the EU needs to actively reduce its dependence …

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