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New brand of GMOs would escape safety testing under EU Commission plan – briefing
A summary of how the European Commission's plans to deregulate new GMOs may affect the environment, farmers, consumers, retailers, governments and human health.
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EU must take its chance to ban harmful weed-killer, glyphosate
The EU should put health and environmental protection before the private interests of companies like Bayer, and ban glyphosate once and for all.
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EU and Mercosur leaders ignore the voice of the people to push forward with toxic deal
Hundreds of environmental groups, social movements and trade unions criticise the announcement by leaders in Brussels that they aim to conclude the EU-Mercosur trade agreement by the end of this year.
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EU Parliament backs landmark law to restore Europe’s nature
The European Parliament has voted in favour of legally binding targets to restore degraded natural areas in the EU.
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MEPs exempt super-polluting factory farms from regulation
In a blow to EU nature protection, MEPs have voted to exempt even the most polluting factory farms from regulation under the EU’s industrial emissions directive.
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EU food safety authority waves through glyphosate despite safety concerns
Greenpeace is calling on the EU to reject market re-approval for glyphosate, a controversial pesticide ingredient.
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GMO deregulation disregards safety and consumer rights, Greenpeace
The European Commission’s proposed deregulation of a new strand of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) disregards safety and consumer rights, Greenpeace has warned.
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Environment MEPs refuse to clip nature law’s wings, all still to play for
Brussels – Members of the European Parliament’s environment committee today voted against sending its recommendations on a new EU nature restoration law to the Parliament’s plenary session
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Methane, ammonia and nitrate pollution from animal farming
The vast majority of Europe's farmland is dedicated to feeding an increasing number of farm animals for meat, dairy and eggs. This huge overproduction of animals brings dangerous levels of pollution.
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EU-Mercosur: Greenpeace sprays EU trade council with ‘pesticides’
Activists from Greenpeace Belgium scaled the EU Council headquarters in Brussels, and sprayed the building with an agricultural pesticide pump, while EU trade ministers discussed