The new corporate capture that threatens democracy and the environment The European Commission has increasingly been turning to alliances with big business to ‘get them on board’ with meeting European Green Deal objectives. In reality, the alliances are another opportunity for industry to unduly influence political processes and direct public spending. Our unique analysis finds …
End the cage age
Over 1.4 million people across the EU have lent their voices to a campaign to stop animals being caged in farming. Every year, around 300 million animals in the EU spend part or all of their lives in cages – caged hens often only have a space the size of an A4 piece of paper. …
10 Farm to Fork priorities for MEPs
As the European Parliament is preparing its reaction (own-initiative report) to the EU Farm to Fork Strategy, civil society organisations in the areas of environment, consumers, food systems, animal welfare, health, consumer co-operatives, farming, fisheries, development, social justice, climate, and forestry have come together to set out 10 key priorities which they call on MEPs …
Open letter: Europe needs more farmers
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.
