How the EU pesticide lobby is harming people and planet in the Global South Corporations like Bayer and BASF, who are the leading European pesticide producers, have been heavily promoting the EU-Mercosur trade deal through lobby groups. Their joint lobby efforts have borne fruit: pesticide use has multiplied sixfold over the last 20 years and a …
The Re-CAP: Does the EU’s new farming policy promote climate justice?
Food production is a climate justice issue. But what does that mean exactly? In 2021, the EU finished reforming their Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which defines how a third of the EU budget will be spent. The new CAP will distribute nearly €270 billion to over 6 million farmers from 2023-2027. The way that money …
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The Re-CAP: Does the EU’s new farming policy match EU Green Deal goals?
Farming in Europe stands at a crossroads. In 2020, the EU introduced the Farm to Fork Strategy, a set of policy objectives devoted to reforming Europe’s food system to meet the EU Green Deal goals. And in 2021, the EU promised a new “greener and fairer” Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). With its billions of euros …
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The powers pushing for a planet-wrecking trade deal
This report exposes the corporations most eagerly and successfully lobbying for the EU-Mercosur trade deal – a deal designed to increase profits at the expense of climate, biodiversity, health and indigenous rights. Friends of the Earth Europe has demanded through “access to documents” requests correspondence and minutes relating to various lobby meetings of the European …
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Joint letter: The EU Commission must propose an ambitious pesticide reduction law
The war on Ukraine is being exploited by agro-industry lobbies to push for the rolling back of European Green Deal objectives. With more than 50 civil society organisations, we urge the European Commission to: Not postpone the much–needed reform of the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive (SUD); Ensure that the reform is ambitious enough and …
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Manifesto for a green, just and democratic European economy
More than 270 civil society organisations, think tanks, trade unions, academics and employers have come together to support this manifesto calling for fundamental reform of the EU’s fiscal rules. We need to scrap outdated rules that put a cap on public spending, and instead reform rules so that they help to fully achieve an environmentally …
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