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A leaked version of DG SANTE’s proposal to deregulate products of ‘new genomic techniques’ (NGTs, or new GMOs) confirms the early warnings by environmental, sustainable farming groups, consumer-groups and scientists.

More than 100 environmental, scientific and social organisations, as well as farmers, trade unions and church groups call for an end to EU derogations that water down CAP environmental measures. They also urge to keep the Farm-to-Fork ambitions of the Green Deal alive. 

Six months after the arrest of then Vice-President of the European Parliament Eva Kaili, CEO, Transparency International and LobbyControl take stock of the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the European Parliament.

A new study of the top 50 highest-spenders on EU lobbying based on LobbyFacts data shows that Big Toxics - major chemical industry players - now out-spend Big Tech in their EU lobby firepower.

An unprecedentedly large coalition of politicians from the United States Congress and the European Union Parliament call for an end to fossil fuel industry influence at the UN climate talks weeks before crucial negotiations on the topic in Bonn, Germany.

Agricultural production on fallow land with the excuse of 'boosting food production' is harmful for bees, birds, soil and the climate. NGOs demand the end of EU derogations using the war in Ukraine as excuse. 

Most of the 116 recommendations made by special committee (PEST) and voted for by the European Parliament (1) in January 2019, which aimed to make the EU’s pesticides authorization system more transparent and efficient, have been largely ignored by the European Commission and member states, new analysis shows.

A few days before the European Gas and Hydrogen Conference takes place in Vienna a new investigative report by lobby watchdog Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) maps Germany's 'brave new hydrogen world'. Which looks a lot like the old world: prolonging fossil fuel use and continuing its extractivist logic. We show who is driving the German – and thus EU – hydrogen hype, who benefits, and the negative impacts for prospective green hydrogen export countries.

For over one year one of the essential parts of the European Commission’s Farm2Fork proposals - the “Sustainable Use of Pesticides Regulation (SUR)” - and its pesticide reduction target of 50% less use by 2030 is under an intensified and fierce attack by parts of the Council and the European Parliament. New analysis published today shows that the opponents use misleading, incorrect and scientifically unsubstantiated claims preventing a factual solution-oriented political discourse. This serves the interests of the pesticide industry, not the needs of society.