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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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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’s economic rules need to overcome permanent crisis mode
The Manifesto for a Green, Just and Democratic European Economy calls for fundamental reform of EU economic policies to reduce inequalities and accelerate action on the climate and nature emergencies.
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Taxonomy greenwashing: activists cover Macron portraits in oil ahead of speech to MEPs
Activists at the European Parliament plunged official portraits of Emmanuel Macron in fake crude oil to denounce the French president’s “climate sabotage.”
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Joint letter on changes to EU decision-making concerning health, agriculture and food
Five environmental, health and agriculture organisations (Friends of the Earth Europe, Greenpeace, HEAL, IFOAM EU and Pesticide Action Network Europe) wrote to EU Commission President Juncker to propose ways to…