Business secrecy to trump public right to know?

Glyphosate European Citizens’ Initiative coalition statement on the European Commission’s transparency proposal
Read the full statement on the European Commission’s pesticide transparency proposal

Glyphosate European Citizens’ Initiative coalition statement on the European Commission’s transparency proposal
Read the full statement on the European Commission’s pesticide transparency proposal

The European Commission has announced that it will force through the provisional application of the EU-Mercosur trade deal, pre-empting a vote to ratify the agreement in the European Parliament and a pending opinion by the European Court of Justice on the legality of the text.

Amid the EU's ongoing drive to reopen and weaken environmental rules, green NGOs have serious concerns about the way the European Commission conducts important stakeholder consultations.

A tiny fraction of rich landowners and industrial farmers siphon off the lion’s share of the EU’s subsidies under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), with a wealthy 1% of recipients taking as much as 40% of the money paid out in some countries, according to CAP payments data gathered by Greenpeace.