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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
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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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Commission launches proceedings against Malta & Cyprus

Today, the European Commission announced that it is launching infringement proceedings against Malta and Cyprus over their programmes that sell citizenship through investment or real estate purchases. This follows on from revelations by Al Jazeera that showed links between...
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Farmland
News |

We want good food

Did you know that over 30% of the total EU budget goes into the European Agricultural Policy? We should have a say on it! If like us, you also want your food to be ecological, local and produced by farmers that earn a dignified income, email your members of the European Parliament now!
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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
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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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European Council
Press release |

#EUCO

Without an agreement, both the EU and Britain will lose.
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Press release |

UN Human Rights Council vote

Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council will elect 15 new members in a secret ballot. The 15 countries will be chosen later today by the UN General Assembly to sit on the 47 nation council. The new members will serve for three years from January. China, Saudi Arabia and Russia are vying for p...
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© European Union 2020 - Source : EP
Anna Cavazzini
Press release |

The Greens/EFA group has just chosen Anna Cavazzini as candidate for the chair of the IMCO Committee

The MEPs of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee will elect the new chair on 26 October. If elected, Anna Cavazzini will succeed Petra De Sutter, who has moved to the new Belgian government as Deputy Prime Minister. Anna Cavazzini, Greens/EFA Member of the IMCO committee, com...
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Dairy Cows
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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...