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    European Parliament Strasbourg
    News |

    A Greens/EFA take on the plenary session

    Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary week included the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), Digital Services Act, Artificial Intelligence, deforestation, gender equality in EU’s foreign and security policy, the state of the Energy Union, the Energy Charter Treaty, serious security threats through the sale of EU passports and visas and the T…
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    Cows / CC0 Stijn Te Strake
    Cows / CC0 Stijn Te Strake
    Opinion |

    It’s (already) time to save the Green Deal

    Benoît Biteau Claude Gruffat
    Opinion by Benoît Biteau & Claude Gruffat
    The farming population is in freefall, with Europe having lost 50% of its farmers in 20 years. Consumers are demanding healthier food produced as close to home as possible.
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    People sitting at a table with laptops/ CC0 Headway
    People sitting at a table with laptops/ CC0 Headway
    Opinion |

    Put rights and freedoms at the centre of the upcoming Digital Services Act

    Patrick Breyer Alexandra Geese Marcel Kolaja
    Opinion by Patrick Breyer & Alexandra Geese & Marcel Kolaja
    The farming population is in freefall, with Europe having lost 50% of its farmers in 20 years. Consumers are demanding healthier food produced as close to home as possible.
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    farmland©matt-benson
    farmland©matt-benson
    Press release |

    MEPs must vote for a CAP that works for people & planet

    The Greens/EFA group call for the European Commission to revisit its current CAP proposal to include the Biodiversity Strategy and the Farm to Fork Strategy
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    Photo Hemicycle Brussels
    News |

    Plenary Flash October II 2020

    During this week plenary session, the European Parliament will debate and vote on the Common Agricultural Policy, Digital Services Act, Artificial Intelligence, Gender Equality in EU’s foreign and security policy, State of the Energy Union, ...
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    ©humphrey muleba
    Dairy Cows
    Press release |

    Commission only scratches the surface

    Today, the European Commission has just presented its new Methane Strategy, which does not live up to promise of greater climate protection under the European Green Deal. The Commission itself writes that methane emissions must be reduced by 35% to achieve 55% fewer greenhouse gas e...
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    ©zsofia-vera
    European Parliament Strasbourg
    News |

    Greens/EFA plenary session debriefing

    Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary week included the climate law, rule of law and fundamental rights mechanism, rule of law and fundamental rights in Bulgaria, multiannual financial framework (MFF) and the rule of law, reinforcing the youth guarantee, forest strategy, approval of McGuinness and Dombrovskis, fight against money launderi…
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    Photo European Parliament - Architecte : Association des architectes du CIC : Vanden Bossche sprl, C.R.V. s.a., CDG sprl, Studiegroep D. Bontinck
    Photo Hemicycle Brussels
    News |

    Plenary Flash October I 2020

    During this week plenary session, the European Parliament will debate and vote on the climate law, the rule of law mechanism, the Multiannual Financial Framework, the forest strategy, the fight against money laundering, ...
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    Opinion |

    Radical transformation of our agricultural system needed, not GMOs

    Biodiversity and ecosystems are under extreme threat, with around one million species facing extinction. To avert the worst consequences of runaway climate change, urgent action needs to be taken now.In order to respond to these unprecedented and closely interlinked crises, our food and agricultural systems need to be rapidly transformed.…
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    Hand holding grain © Bart Sadowski
    Hand holding grain
    Policy Paper |

    Genome editing in agriculture

    Biodiversity and ecosystems are under extreme threat, with around one million species facing extinction. In order to respond to these unprecedented and closely interlinked crises, our food and agricultural systems need to be rapidly transformed. High input, industrial farming based on monocultures and factory farming must be replaced by h…
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