This letter to the European Commission and Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) legislators is signed by farmers’ organisations, environmental organisations, NGOs, unions, and researchers. It marks the week of International Day of Peasant Struggles which commemorates the massacre of 21 landless peasants in 1996 in Eldorado dos Carajás, Brazil, while demonstrating in support of comprehensive agrarian …
How the gas lobby infiltrates EU decision making
Updated proposals to revise EU energy infrastructure legislation are set to give an obscure body representing the gas industry power over Europe’s energy future. The European Commission proposals to reform the trans-European energy infrastructure (TEN-E) regulation give too much control to gas companies. This briefing argues it’s time to cut fossil fuels out of our …
Open letter: regulate new GMOs
Together with 161 other organisations, we wrote to European Commission Vice-President Timmermans to call on them to not deregulate a new wave of GMOs. We demand the protection of the rights of farmers and consumers to choose what they plant and eat. This means GM food must be risk-assessed, traceable and labelled.
Germany: make community energy great again
In our open letter to the German Green Party, we ask them to put the transition to 100% renewable and community energy at the heart of the upcoming election. There is a worrying slow-down in Germany’s Energy Transition (the so-called Energiewende). The country was once Europe’s leader for renewable energy, but it is becoming a …
We need a fair and green CAP
Together with 40 other organisations, we wrote to the European Council, Commission and Parliament to urge them to make the reformed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) greener, fairer and healthier. We’re calling for the following principles to be included in the new CAP: Incorporate the principles, objectives and targets of the Green Deal into the CAP …
EU trade deal set to increase harmful meat imports – Report
Meat linked to human rights violations and deforestation are already on the shelves of our local supermarkets in Europe and on the plates of European consumers, and the EU-Mercosur deal will just increase this.
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