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The powers pushing for a planet-wrecking trade deal

28/03/2022

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

21/03/2022

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

15/03/2022

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 We need to scrap outdated rules that put a cap on public spending, and instead reform rules so that they help to fully achieve an environmentally …

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Open Letter: Europe off gas for peace and prosperity

11/03/2022

Together with more than 50 other organisations we have written to EU leaders calling on them to accelerate the transition off fossil gas. Given the role that fossil fuels play in the terrible war happening in Ukraine, and in the global energy price crisis, more than ever before, Europe’s energy transition is now a peace …

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Joint letter: EU food supply and solidarity response to the war in Ukraine

10/03/2022

More than 85 NGOs are calling on the European Union not to derail the EU Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies, as this would only worsen the challenges our agricultural system is facing. This letter comes as a reaction to the statement by Commissioner Wojciechowski that “if food security is in danger, then we need …

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ECT reform: Why it has failed to deliver on the EU’s own objectives

04/03/2022

In 2018, the EU started a process to reform the Energy Charter Treaty – an outdated trade and investment treaty protecting investments in the energy sector – setting itself a threefold objective. A new briefing analyses the progress made towards those ambitions. The EU has long considered the ECT to be outdated and a hindrance …

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