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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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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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Greenpeace calls for EU ban on new oil and gas projects
Brussels – An EU ban on new oil, gas and coal projects would be perfectly feasible, according to a new legal analysis published today by Greenpeace EU. With average global…
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EPP fiddles while forests burn
The European People's Party is seeking last-minute changes that would make a mess of the EU's deforestation law, one of the big wins from the EU Green Deal
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“Von der Leyen might as well have wielded the chainsaw herself”, EU forest law delay
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has announced a one-year delay to the application of a crucial law to protect the world's forests from the impacts of European consumption.
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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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Greenpeace opens office in Kyiv, Ukraine
Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe is formally opening a new office in Kyiv, Ukraine today.
