All articles by Greenpeace European Unit
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European shops imported beef newly linked to illegal cattle ranching on Indigenous Amazon lands
Beef from cattle illegally raised on protected Indigenous land in the Amazon rainforest may have ended up on the plates of European consumers after entering the supply chains of Brazilian beef giant JBS, a new study by Greenpeace Brasil has revealed.
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CAP: from flawed proposal to real transition
Joint recommendations for the next Common Agricultural Policy by Birdlife, European Environmental Bureau, Greenpeace and WWF.
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Greenpeace calls for EU-China Summit to strengthen climate multilateralism
Beijing/Brussels – As President of the European Council António Costa and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen travel to Beijing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and…
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Stop complaining, start complying! The EUDR must apply as planned on 30 December 2025
Today, the European Parliament approved a motion, proposed by MEP Alexander Bernhuber (Austria – EPP), asking the Commission to repeal its regulation on 22 May 2025 that implemented the “country…
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Time for farmers and nature to thrive – policy briefing
Europe is facing escalating climate shocks – heatwaves, droughts, and floods – that threaten food production and expose the fragility of the current food system. These extreme weather events already…
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New GMOs: sorting spin from facts – media briefing
The European Parliament’s environment committee will vote on Tuesday to start the final phase of negotiations on a controversial draft EU law on a new breed of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). These GMOs are produced with new genomic techniques (NGT). European governments and the European Parliament are divided and the political fight is expected to…
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Joint statement: EU omnibus deregulation slashes human rights and environmental protections
Greenpeace activists take part in a demonstration in Brussels against the EU's omnibus law and deregulation weakening corporate accountability
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200+ environment and farmer groups: new GMOs, old problems
Brussels, 11 February 2025 – European countries must protect farmers, small- and medium-sized seed breeders, and the organic and GM-free sectors from threats to their business posed by the deregulation…
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EU deforestation law to be delayed as new threat emerges from EU-Mercosur trade deal
The EU's deforestation law will be delayed after right-wing attempts to gut it failed, but the EU-Mercosur trade deal could still deal the deforestation law a fatal blow