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EU-Mercosur trade deal breaches EU climate laws – legal analysis
A trade deal between the EU and Mercosur countries would lead to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions and is incompatible with EU and international climate laws, according to new legal analysis...
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Letter: EU cannot ignore nature-based water resilience
European Commission must urgently put nature-based EU water resilience initiative back on the agenda, says broad coalition of 28 organisations in an open letter. Twenty-eight organisations, including...
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EU woefully unprepared for extreme weather
Brussels – The European Environment Agency today published its first-ever European Climate Risk Assessment, containing stark warnings about catastrophic and urgent dangers from a warming planet. The...
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Activists to protest nuclear fairy tales at Brussels summit
More than 600 organisations worldwide sign new anti-nuclear declaration for “Safe, affordable and climate-friendly energy for all”. Brussels, 20 March 2024 – An international coalition of climate,...
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Greenpeace activists block delegations at Brussels nuclear summit
Brussels, 21 March 2024 – Activists from Greenpeace France have delayed the arrival of several official delegations at the international Nuclear Energy Summit in Brussels today, which the...
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Governments freeze EU nature restoration law
Brussels – EU government representatives today shelved the EU’s new law to restore nature in Europe, ahead of a meeting that was supposed to be a rubber-stamp approval of a deal negotiated months ago....
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EU must not strip farm policy of nature protection
Together with allies, Greenpeace wrote to European Commission President von der Leyen asking her to withdraw plans to remove nature protection measures from the EU’s common agricultural policy....
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Bankrolling Extinction: EU banks financing nature destruction
20240326-Greenpeace-Bankrolling-Extinction-report Download the full report here.
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Leaked strategic agenda: military ambition leaves EU vulnerable to ecological...
Brussels, 10 April 2024 – A leaked plan to ramp up investments in the EU weapons and military industry would leave people in Europe vulnerable to the security impacts of the escalating climate and...
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Dumping EU green rules a poisoned gift for farmers
Brussels – Greenpeace activists installed a giant poisoned apple outside the European Parliament in Brussels, urging politicians in the parliament not to give farmers a poisoned gift by scrapping...
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EU summit: competitiveness miracle cure erases social and environmental...
Brussels, 17 April 2024 – Living standards and nature are under threat from the latest EU competitiveness drive, which government leaders are expected to announce at a summit in Brussels on Wednesday...
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Austerity is back to wreck the green transition as MEPs endorse new debt rules
Brussels, 23 April 2024 – The European Parliament has voted in favour of new debt reduction rules, which will force many EU governments to take austerity measures and limit their ability to borrow to...
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EU Parliament shreds nature protection in farming
Brussels – The European Parliament today voted to bin rules protecting nature and soil quality on farms, in a move that jeopardises Europe’s ability to feed future generations, Greenpeace has warned....
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Open letter by civil society on the rollback of green measures in the EU
With only a month to go until European elections, over 140 civil society organisations are raising the alarm in a new open letter about a broad attack on many of the EU’s flagship green measures and...
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Greenpeace comment on the European Parliament elections
Brussels, 9 June 2024 – Polls have closed in most of the 27 countries of the European Union, where voters are casting their ballots to elect the 720 members of the European Parliament (MEPs) who will...
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EU governments adopt diminished nature restoration law
Brussels – European governments have narrowly adopted a diminished EU nature restoration law, after persistent attacks to torpedo the law and an uncertain outcome until Monday’s Environment Council...
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Activists recreate da Vinci’s “Last Supper” as EU leaders meet over dinner
Image credit: Johanna de Tessières / Greenpeace Brussels, 17 June 2024 – Activists from Greenpeace Belgium have recreated Leonardo da Vinci’s famous “Last Supper” painting in Brussels’ Parc du...
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Nuclear power’s financial problems exposed in new report
*** Please find more information about the various financing models used in European countries in this briefing and read more in the full report. Brussels, 19 June 2024 – Nuclear power is a risky...
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EU governments back plan to accelerate age of extinction
Brussels, 28 June 2024 – EU government leaders meeting at a summit in Brussels to set their political priorities for the next five years have backed a plan to prioritise corporate profits and military...
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Direct train connections between major European cities could be more than...
Read “Connection Failed” from Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe here Brussels, 2 July 2024 – Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe has analysed 990 routes between 45 major European cities, and...
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