Lobbying

The EU Parliament blocked legislation to reduce pesticide use in agriculture. Behind alleged concerns over food safety lie the interests of the agrochemical industry.

Europe’s biggest farming lobby, together with the EPP, opposes any policy inimical to the interests of large landowners.

EU trade policy offers carbon-heavy industries an implicit subsidy to pollute, undermining efforts to tackle climate change.

An interview with the Pirate MEP on what Article 11 and 13 of the EU’s proposed copyright directive could mean for internet freedom.

As the EU acts on plastic pollution, industry lobbyists are upping their game in an effort to water down proposals.

The biotech industry are lobbying to exclude a new generation of genetic engineering techniques from the European GMO regulations.

Viewed with suspicion, TTIP hangs over us like a dark cloud. Deemed as a threat to social rights, welfare, the environment and constitutional sovereignty, a civil society resistance movement continues to gain traction. In light of a recent leak by Greenpeace Netherlands further exposing these threats, it is time now to reassess the state of play.

There is a grave injustice at the heart of the global food system. Climate change has never been more prevalent, yet one of its principal perpetrators – the leading cause of deforestation, water consumption, species extinction, habitat loss, ocean dead zones and pollution, responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions (at least 14.5%) than all transport in the world combined – is being persistently ignored.

Did the agreements that came out of the December 2015 COP 21 in Paris really hold any meaningful weight?

An interview with José Bové.