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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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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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EU Commission competing with Musk and Trump on deregulation
Brussels – The European Commission’s work programme for the next 5 years, published yesterday evening, plans to rip up protections for people’s rights and the planet to boost corporate profits,…
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200+ environment and farmer groups: new GMOs, old problems
Brussels, 11 February 2025 – European countries must protect farmers, small- and medium-sized seed breeders, and the organic and GM-free sectors from threats to their business posed by the deregulation…
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EU deforestation law to be delayed as new threat emerges from EU-Mercosur trade deal
The EU's deforestation law will be delayed after right-wing attempts to gut it failed, but the EU-Mercosur trade deal could still deal the deforestation law a fatal blow
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Toxic EU Mercosur trade deal agreed
Greenpeace calls on all policy-makers throughout Europe and Mercosur countries to listen to the widespread public opposition and vote against this toxic trade deal.
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EU and Mercosur negotiators reportedly reach deal on disastrous trade agreement: Greenpeace comment
EU governments and relevant parliaments must have a chance to scrutinise and vote on the disastrous EU-Mercosur free trade deal
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Want to do something good for farmers? Stop the EU-Mercosur trade deal
Farmers are some of the most vocal opponents of the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement, fearing the impact it would have on their livelihoods. They are right.