All articles by Greenpeace European Unit
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Activists hack EU Commission HQ with giant image of Amazon fires
Brussels – Five activists scaling the 14-storey facade of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels hung a 30-metre banner mimicking a hole burned through the building, revealing the Amazon in flames, with the message: “Amazon fires – Europe guilty”.
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MEPs back tougher EU 2030 climate target
Brussels, 10 September 2020 – Members of the European Parliament’s environment committee have voted to speed up EU emission cuts by the end of the decade to help avert catastrophic climate breakdown.
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Letter to Commissioner Kyriakides on open-source detection test for first commercialized gene-edited plant ready for integration in routine EU GMO controls
Greenpeace, on behalf of ARGE Gentechnik-frei (Austria), IFOAM Organics Europe and VLOG – Association Food without Genetic Engineering (Germany), wrote to the European Commission to inform about the successful development…
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First open source detection test for a gene-edited GM crop
Brussels - Greenpeace, together with other non-governmental organisations, non-GMO food associations and a food retailer, announced that the first-ever public detection method for a gene-edited crop has been successfully developed and published. [1] The new research refutes claims by the biotech industry and some regulators that new genetically modified (GM) crops engineered with gene editing…
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Briefing: First open source detection test for a gene-edited GM crop
A group of NGOs and non-GMO food associations from Europe, New Zealand and the USA and a leading European retailer have published a detection method for the first commercialised genetically…
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EU Parliament can rescue transformative recovery plan, Greenpeace
The European Parliament will challenge governments to boost EU plans for a green and just recovery to the coronavirus pandemic, following a preliminary deal reached by EU leaders earlier this week.
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Gag lawsuits are impairing free speech across the EU
Brussels – Gag lawsuits are a widespread phenomenon in Europe, hitting journalists, activists, academics, their organisations, and others, a new Greenpeace EU report finds. Aimed at silencing critical voices, they…
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EU governments pass up opportunity for green and just recovery – Greenpeace
Brussels – As the first face-to-face EU summit since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe ended, Europe’s leaders have failed to exclude access to EU recovery funds for…
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EU recovery money should fund green economy, not polluters
Civil society representatives called on European leaders meeting in Brussels today to use taxpayers’ money to fund a just and green recovery, not polluters.
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Just Transition Fund must provide a just, green and fair transition, not line industry pockets — Greenpeace
Brussels, 6 July 2020 – Today the European Parliament Committee on Regional Development