Brussels, International — The European Parliament will today endorse a draft regulation on the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) following a three-way agreement reached between the European Commission, Parliament and Council on 6 December. The...

Brussels, International — Less than seven months ago, Avaaz and Greenpeace started collecting signatures for an unprecedented EU-wide citizens’ initiative aimed at the European Commission and calling for a moratorium on GM crops until safety...

Brussels, Belgium — A genetically modified (GM) potato has been grown illegally in open fields in Sweden for months. Plant Science Sweden, the daughter company of German chemical giant BASF, appears to have mixed up seed and contaminated fields...

Brussels, International — The European Commission will announce today proposals to speed up the union’s genetically modified (GM) crop authorisation procedure. Member states are being promised the right to ban GM cultivation if they reduce their...

Brussels, International — Reuters today published revelations from several European Commission sources confirming its plan to ease the GM authorisation process.

Brussels, Belgium — Greenpeace volunteers dressed as chefs to hand out hundreds of anti-GM spoof cookbooks to Commission staff in the EU quarter today. MEPs, permanent representatives for member states and Brussels journalists also received the...

Brussels, Belgium — Greenpeace has responded to the European Commission’s controversial decision to authorise the Amflora genetically modified (GM) potato with a billboard campaign across Brussels.

Farmers are bringing the issue of genetically modified (GM) crop contamination right to the Commission’s front doorstep today. They are meeting European Commissioner for health, Androulla Vassiliou, and joining Greenpeace in handing over a...

Brussels, Belgium — Des volontaires de Greenpeace ont escaladé tôt ce matin le bâtiment au cœur du quartier européen, pour déployer une immense banderole d'un maïs génétiquement modifié. L'action de Greenpeace coïncide avec la dernière réunion...

Brussels, Belgium — In an a-maize-ing feat at the heart of the EU quarter in Brussels this morning, Greenpeace activists climbed a building on Schuman square to display a giant banner of a ‘scary’ genetically modified (GM) corn plant bearing the...

Luxembourg, Brussels, Belgium — L’Union Européenne souffre d’une Monsantosis aiguë, provoquée par une approche laxiste et non – scientifique relative aux organismes génétiquement modifiés (OGM). Greenpeace a mis en garde les ministres de...

Brussels, Belgium — Greenpeace is today staging a parody protest outside the EU Commission's Berlaymont headquarters, posing as lobbyists for companies that produce genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and are trying to get them approved for...

Luxembourg — Greenpeace activists deployed a banner over the entrance to the Environment Council in Luxembourg this morning, calling on ministers entering the meeting to "Protect Europe from GM food risks". The Council will discuss flaws in the...

Brussels, Belgium — At the Agriculture Council today EU Ministers decided to allow contamination of organic food with genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The Ministers adopted a new law which allows organic food containing up to 0.9 percent...

Brussels, Belgium — Greenpeace this weekend alerted the European Commission to the presence of an illegal GMO in a shipment from the US to Europe. Greenpeace is calling for immediate EU intervention to confiscate the cargo and prevent further...

Brussels, International — Greenpeace International released findings today that show illegal GE (genetically engineered) rice from China has contaminated food products in France, Germany and the UK. Greenpeace International has notified authorit...

Brussels, Belgium — News that French authorities have detected another variety of illegal genetically engineered (GE) rice contained in US imports to the EU – the third illegal GE rice scandal in Europe in two months – should prompt...