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EU summit: competitiveness miracle cure erases social and environmental programme
Living standards and nature are under threat from the latest EU competitiveness drive, which government leaders are expected to announce at a summit in Brussels on Wednesday and Thursday.
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Leaked strategic agenda: military ambition leaves EU vulnerable to ecological collapse
A leaked plan to ramp up investments in the EU weapons and military industry would leave people in Europe vulnerable to the security impacts of the escalating climate and nature crisis.
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EU-Mercosur trade deal breaches EU climate laws – legal analysis
A trade deal between the EU and Mercosur countries would lead to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions and is incompatible with EU and international climate laws.
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State of the Union? On fire
Greenpeace has warned that the EU is in a dire state when it comes to protecting people from environmental destruction, as EU Commission President von der Leyen gave her annual ‘State of the European Union’ speech in Strasbourg.
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EU Parliament backs landmark law to restore Europe’s nature
The European Parliament has voted in favour of legally binding targets to restore degraded natural areas in the EU.
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Time for healthy EU-US competition on climate
The US has passed historic, albeit imperfect, climate legislation – the Inflation Reduction Act. But how do EU officials respond? “Nobody wants a subsidy war” said Margrethe Vestager. Talk about missing the wind farm for the turbines.
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European Parliament kicks out lobbyists for Russia, but their fingerprints remain
Russia could earn billions from the EU's plan to greenwash fossil gas and nuclear energy.
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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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Fossil fuels could tap into EU green recovery funds with MEPs’ support
On Monday 9 November, in a crucial joint vote, the European Parliament’s economic affairs committee and the budgets committees will decide how to allocate €672.5 billion in emergency coronavirus recovery funds. The European Parliament has a last chance to ensure polluters don’t sink the chance for a green and just recovery.
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EU-Mercosur: leaked treaty has no climate protection, undermines democracy
Brussels, 9 October 2020 – There are no sanctionable clauses requiring the EU and Mercosur countries to respect climate or environmental protection in the treaty under negotiation between the two…