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EU food safety watchdog backs controversial Commission plan on new GMO plants
Brussels, 11 July 2024 – The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published a scientific opinion which concludes that certain types of genetically-modified plants derived from new genomic...
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Von der Leyen second term: big promises, little coherence
© Bojan-Haron Markicevic / Greenpeace, 2022 Brussels, 18 July 2024 – Ursula von der Leyen will continue as president of the European Commission, after receiving the backing of 401 MEPs in a highly...
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Support farmers in need and reward nature protection, says major EU farming...
Brussels – A major cross-sector review of food and farming, backed by the European Commission, has called for a fundamental rethink of farming to support the most vulnerable farmers and reward those...
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Greenpeace opens office in Kyiv, Ukraine
Kyiv, Ukraine – Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe is formally opening a new office in Kyiv, Ukraine today. The Greenpeace network has worked with allies in the country since Russia’s invasion in...
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New EU Commission: can grand job titles respond to existential challenges...
Brussels – European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has announced what portfolios she is assigning to European commissioner nominees who will steer EU policy to the end of the decade....
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Tree sculpture outside EU Parliament urges politicians to protect nature
Brussels – Greenpeace activists today installed a nine-metre-tall installation of a tree of life outside the European Parliament in Brussels, urging European politicians to act decisively to halt the...
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“Cruel” trade loopholes let European companies export toxic products banned...
Brussels, 26 September 2024 – More than 100 non-governmental organisations, including Amnesty International, the Child Rights International Network and Greenpeace, have called on the European Union to...
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Spike in private jet flights to European holiday destinations
Brussels, 1 October 2024 – New analysis commissioned by Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe reveals a sharp rise in private jet flights to European holiday hotspots last year, with a significant...
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“Von der Leyen might as well have wielded the chainsaw herself”, EU forest...
Brussels – European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has condemned the world’s forests to another year of destruction as a result of European consumption, by proposing to delay the...
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Go big or go bust – report
How the EU’s farmers are pushed to produce more to stay in business This briefing, commissioned by the Greenpeace European Unit, analyses the data and trends in the EU farming sector that most...
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EU’s farmers under pressure to go big or go bust
Brussels – Europe’s farmers are under pressure to increase their output or go out of business, new Greenpeace EU research into farming data has revealed. The analysis shows a widening divide between...
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EU finance ministers let big polluters off the hook
Brussels – Finance ministers meeting in Luxembourg on Tuesday adopted the European Union’s position on climate finance, ahead of the COP29 UN climate change conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 11-22...
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225 global groups say “Hands off the EU deforestation regulation!”
#Together4Forests press release Brussels, 15 October 2024 – More than 225 civil society organisations from at least 42 countries have called on the European Parliament and national EU governments to...
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Media briefing: the EU and the COP16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia
Greenpeace European Unit media briefing, October 2024 Brussels – The European Union likes to portray itself as a “leading player in global biodiversity efforts and negotiations” (European Environment...
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EU green label for fossil gas and nuclear accelerates the climate crisis
Brussels – Giving fossil gas and nuclear power a green label in the EU’s sustainable investments rulebook will hurt efforts to tackle the climate crisis, according to a new report by Greenpeace...
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EPP fiddles while forests burn
Brussels, 7 November 2024 – The European People’s Party (EPP) has proposed a set of amendments, published by Politico, to the EU deforestation regulation (EUDR) that would, if adopted by MEPs in a...
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Spanish flooding: denialism and misinformation can cost lives
Greenpeace documents possible causes of the enormous impact of torrential rains in eastern and southern Spain. (This is a translation of an article in Spanish that originally appeared on Greenpeace...
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Deforestation law: the dismantling of the EU Green Deal has begun, but it can...
Brussels, 14 November 2024 – While global leaders are gathered in Azerbaijan for COP29, centre-right and far-right parties in the European Parliament have teamed up to begin to dismantle the EU Green...
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Deforestation law: EU governments reject chaotic amendments sought by MEPs
Brussels, 20 November 2024 – In response to today’s announcement that EU governments have rejected a set of amendments that the European Parliament voted last week to make to the EU deforestation law,...
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