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Open letter by civil society on the rollback of green measures in the EU
With only a month to go until European elections, over 140 civil society organisations are raising the alarm in a new open letter about a broad attack on many of the EU’s flagship green measures and commitments.
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EU Parliament shreds nature protection in farming
Brussels, 24 April 2024 – The European Parliament today voted to bin rules protecting nature and soil quality on farms, in a move that jeopardises Europe’s ability to feed future…
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Austerity is back to wreck the green transition as MEPs endorse new debt rules
The European Parliament has voted in favour of new debt reduction rules
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Dumping EU green rules a poisoned gift for farmers
Brussels, 11 April 2024 – Greenpeace activists installed a giant poisoned apple outside the European Parliament in Brussels, urging politicians in the parliament not to give farmers a poisoned gift…
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Bankrolling Extinction: EU banks financing nature destruction
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EU must not strip farm policy of nature protection
Together with allies, Greenpeace wrote to European Commission President von der Leyen asking her to withdraw plans to remove nature protection measures from the EU
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Governments freeze EU nature restoration law
Brussels – EU government representatives today shelved the EU’s new law to restore nature in Europe, ahead of a meeting that was supposed to be a rubber-stamp approval of a…
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Letter: EU cannot ignore nature-based water resilience
European Commission must urgently put nature-based EU water resilience initiative back on the agenda, says broad coalition of 28organisations in an open letter.
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Activists confront politicians and lobbyists responsible for farmers’ hardships
Big food companies make monster profits at the expense of most farmers, consumers and nature
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Farmers are right to protest — but Green Deal is wrong target
Farmers across Europe are struggling and are hitting the streets to protest. But when politicians and big agriculture lobbies blame Europe's green legislation, they are not only misleading farmers, they are risking their survival.
