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Toxic EU Mercosur trade deal agreed
Greenpeace calls on all policy-makers throughout Europe and Mercosur countries to listen to the widespread public opposition and vote against this toxic trade deal.
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“Cruel” trade loopholes let European companies export toxic products banned from EU market
More than 100 organisations call on the EU to close "hypocritical, cruel unfair and intolerable" trade loopholes.
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New EU Commission: can grand job titles respond to existential challenges facing Europe?
Although green policy has made it in the job titles of several commissioner nominees announced today, questions remain about the social and environmental benefits of a new competitiveness drive, in the wake of intensifying events like the recent devastating floods in central Europe.
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EU governments back plan to accelerate age of extinction
EU leaders have announced political priorities for the next five years which are weak on environmental protection.
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Greenpeace installs radiation sensors in Ukraine and calls for EU sanctions against Rosatom
Greenpeace and SaveDnipro have installed sensors to monitor radiation levels in Ukraine
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EU-Mercosur deal to boost plastics trade, a set back for Global Plastics Treaty
Brussels – A Greenpeace analysis found that a trade agreement currently being negotiated between the European Union (EU) and Mercosur (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay) will…
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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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European Central Bank fails at own climate action plan
Brussels/Frankfurt, 26 July 2023 - The European Central Bank (ECB) did not meet its commitments to decarbonise its corporate bond portfolio in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement and abandoned reinvestments by the end of June 2023
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The shocking extent people are encouraged to fly in Europe
A new study of 112 routes in Europe finds that flying is cheaper on average than taking the train, but only because railways don't get the kinds of subsidies and tax breaks that airlines do
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French short-haul flight ban is legal, rules EU Commission in blow to airline lobby
The EU executive has finally confirmed that France's short-haul flight ban is legal, but said it should be limited to only three years.
