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With today’s vote by the European Parliament a new political phase begins in the European Union. The Green 10 alliance of leading environmental organisations calls on President Juncker and his team of Commissioners to give European citizens, and...
A letter from the Green 10 to Mr Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, Mr Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council and Mr Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission
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Italian version of the media briefing on the Italian presidency of the EU. The document is also available in English.
Addressed to Commission president-elect Jean-Claude Juncker
Independent Assessment of the FQD’s “Conventional” Default Value
Unilever Statement on Climate and Energy Policy
Policy Paper on the dangers of genetically engineered plants - Uncontrolled dispersal and unplanned side effects.
This is the third annual report from the online GM Contamination Register, which reviews reported cases of contamination and illegal plantings and releases of GM (genetically modified) organisms.
Greenpeace has collaborated with the Institute of Applied Ecology in Freiburg (Germany) and Blaueninstitut in Basel (Switzerland) in a project in which various leading scientists genetically modified plants have been interviewed about their...
On 20 May 2005 European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) delivered a positive opinion on Syngenta’s application for insectresistant genetically modified (GM) maize Bt11. The notifier claims that Bt11 will not be marketed for its herbicide tolerance,...
A Report on the use of GMOs and genetically modified food ingredients in the European Food Industry. Based on GM policy statements of top ranked retailers and food and drink producers in Europe.
In 2006 a series of scandals erupted as world rice supplies were discovered to be contaminated with unapproved genetically engineered (GE) rice varieties. Major rice markets close doors to genetically engineered rice after contamination of the...
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...
Luxembourg, Brussels, Belgium — The EU is suffering from a debilitating bout of Monsantosis, caused by its lax and unscientific approach to genetically modified organisms (GMOs), Greenpeace warned EU environment ministers meeting in Luxembourg...
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...
Brussels, Belgium — The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) missed an opportunity today to recover its credibility as regulator of GMO authorisations in Europe.
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 — New research into the health impacts of genetically engineered (GE) food already approved in Europe casts further doubt on the way these products are checked for safety by EU authorities before being approved for sale and...
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, Belgium — Greenpeace will today deliver to Markos Kyprianou, European Commissioner for Health, a petition containing 1,000,000 citizens’ signatures calling for the labelling of milk, meat, eggs and other animal products where the...
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...
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A concise briefing on the major problems with genetically modified crops and why they are no solution to the problems of food security, climate change and biodiversity loss.
This article was published on 7 December 2015 on Euractiv.com The European Food Safety Authority (ESFA) said on 12 November that there is no scientific evidence that glyphosate – the active ingredient in the world’s most...
Despite Brexit and despite repeated talk of bringing Europe closer to its citizens, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is about to alienate Europeans further. He is planning to authorise three GM crops for cultivation in...
In case you missed the news this week, here’s what we know so far: during the first week in August, the Dutch food safety authority (NWMA) announced that they discovered tens of thousands of eggs contaminated with fipronil - a toxic...
Climate change will profoundly affect agriculture worldwide. Food security in many countries is under threat from unpredictable changes in rainfall and more frequent extreme weather. Farmers in poorer countries with harsh climate conditions will...
This report demonstrates the adverse human and animal health impacts of popular glyphosate pesticides and the need for a safety review.
Thirteen two-page factsheets on the need for CAP reform, endorsed by a wide coalition of organisations.
Brussels - European Commissioners today failed to agree how to close a major loophole in EU biofuels policy. The lack of progress adds to years of delay while the climate impact of harmful biofuels continues to grow, Greenpeace said.
The 2012 EU Energy [R]evolution report, carried out for Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council by the German National Centre for Aerospace, Energy and Transport Research, demonstrates how Europe would gain nearly half a million...
Greenpeace's demands of the 2011 Polish EU presidency, focusing on fisheries, climate, energy and agriculture.
19 July 2011, Brussels – Drivers are unknowingly helping to destroy rainforests because of the growing use of harmful biofuels in diesel, tests at filling stations reveal.
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