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New EU debt rules agreement slams brakes on green investments
EU finance ministers have agreed new national debt and deficit rules that would heavily impact governments’ ability to pay for the transition to clean energy and transport, sustainable farming and nature restoration, Greenpeace has warned.
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EU governments fail to agree Commission plan for new GMOs to escape safety testing
Agriculture ministers failed to reach a political agreement on a plan by the European Commission that would allow a new brand of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) produced with new genomic techniques (NGTs) to escape safety testing. The proposal would scrap most safety checks governing the release of GMOs, despite scientist warnings.
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EU dodges conflict of interest in new hydrogen grid
Brussels – The fossil gas industry will not be handed control of a future European hydrogen network, according to a deal concluded today on updated rules for the EU’s gas…
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Spanish EU presidency pushes ahead with controversial plan to allow new GMOs to escape safety testing
Greenpeace EU media briefing – December 2023
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Factsheet: Comparing holiday season travel prices by train and plane
Europe's transport system is still heavily skewed in favour of flying
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COP28: the new EU climate chief faces his first major test
We're about to find out if Wopke Hoekstra is as serious about the climate as he convinced MEPs he was
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EU nature restoration law survives conservative ‘kill list’
Brussels – Despite attempts by the conservative European People’s Party group in the European Parliament to shoot down the new EU law to restore nature, the Parliament’s…
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EU gives factory farms a free pass to pollute
Brussels – In a blow to the climate, nature and the vast majority of EU livestock farmers, EU lawmakers agreed to give the most polluting factory farms…
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Commission funds fossil fuels industry through controversial infrastructure projects
Brussels - The Commission’s list of Projects of Common Interest (PCI) includes a number of projects that, under the pretence of facilitating the development of hydrogen technology, risk being just…
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EU handing future hydrogen grid to fossil gas industry
The planning and management of much of Europe’s future hydrogen infrastructure could be left in the hands of the fossil gas industry, after the European…
