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Real energy security: break free from gas
The European Union imports almost 60% of the energy it consumes – the vast majority of those imports are fossil fuels. In particular, Europe is currently highly dependent on fossil…
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Hottest March in Europe ever: Greenpeace calls for climate polluters to pay
Greenpeace says climate polluters must pay, as Copernicus Climate Change Service declares March 2025 the warmest ever March for Europe and the second-warmest globally.
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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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Fossil fuel dependence leaves EU wide open to extortion
As tensions mounted on the border between Ukraine and Russia, in the weeks and months before Russia’s full-scale invasion, it was clear to anyone with an eye on energy markets…
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EU governments back loophole for new GMOs
Brussels – EU governments have supported a loophole for new genetically modified crops (GMOs) in the EU’s regulations to protect people and nature from potential risks, a move that Greenpeace…
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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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EU Commission plans to appease Trump and polluting industry
Brussels – European Commission plans aimed at reducing energy prices, the ‘affordable energy action plan’, and boosting European industry, the ‘clean industrial deal’ released today are a gift to polluting industries, Greenpeace warned.
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EU Commission’s tunnel vision on food and farming
Brussels – New European Commission plans for the European agri-food sector, published today, do little to curtail the environmental, climate and socioeconomic threats facing most farmers, and ignore the findings…
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EU Commission competing with Musk and Trump on deregulation
Brussels – The European Commission’s work programme for the next 5 years, published yesterday evening, plans to rip up protections for people’s rights and the planet to boost corporate profits,…
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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…
