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EU fiscal framework must promote green jobs
The EU institutions have promised a green recovery from the COVID pandemic. However, this will never be achieved if the fiscal rules of the EU continue to impose austerity measures…
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Withdraw CAP proposal to save EU green deal, NGOs tell Commission president
Leading environmental NGOs have written to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to call on her to withdraw the Commission's proposal on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to safeguard the European green deal.
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Letter to MEPs on excluding fossil fuels from the Recovery and Resilience Facility
The Green 10 – the ten largest environmental networks in Europe – have called on the European Parliament to exclude fossil fuels from the EU recovery fund, the Recovery and…
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Letter to Werner Hoyer, president of the European Investment Bank, on the loan for the extension of the A49 motorway
Greenpeace sent a letter to the European Investment Bank’s (EIB) president asking to cancel the bank’s €264 million loan (signed in September) to fund the extension of the A49 motorway…
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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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Letter to Commissioners Sinkevičius and Kyriakides on gene drives
More than 80 organisations from all over Europe are calling on the European Commission to outlaw the release of so-called Gene Drive Organisms in the EU and internationally.
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EIB stumbles in self-proclaimed mission to become EU climate bank
In an open letter published today, on the eve of an EIB stakeholder meeting, 34 organisations, including Greenpeace, call on the bank to align its lending and client portfolios with global climate commitments.
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President von der Leyen: EU Farm to Fork plan must cut meat and dairy
It is no exaggeration to say that intensive animal farming is the largest single problem with the global food system, and it would be extremely remiss to ignore this in…
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Letter to EU Commission: scrap the CAP
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to unfold, it is increasingly clear that we are witnessing a crisis on top of other already existing crises, concerning human and planetary health, climate…
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EU Commission must not take climate advice from BlackRock
92 NGOs wrote to European Commission President von der Leyen, and Executive Vice-Presidents Dombrovskis and Timmermans, to urge them to cancel the recently concluded contract with BlackRock Investment Management. This…