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European Parliament greenwashes farming subsidies and recovery funds

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis - December 15, 2020

On December 14, the European Parliament rubber-stamped an agreement on EU farm support for the next two years and on how recovery funds will...

EU-Vietnam FTA includes binding rules on climate, labour and human rights

ASIA Theodoros Benakis - January 21, 2020

The Committee on International Trade backed the free trade and investment protection agreements between the EU and Vietnam on Tuesday. The committee gave its consent...

A climate anticlimax: Left won’t back Parliament’s weak Green Deal text

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis - January 14, 2020

GUE/NGL has decided not to support the joint resolution of the European Parliament on the European Green Deal to be voted in plenary tomorrow...

Five burning questions for the EU’s forest policies in 2020

ENVIRONMENT Theodoros Benakis - January 7, 2020

In 2019, forests and forest peoples’ rights rose up the global political – and spiritual - agenda, and the European Union (EU) made high profile commitments to protect forests abroad and...

EESC supports move to qualified majority voting on energy taxation

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis - September 30, 2019

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) backs the Commission's proposal to make EU decision-making on energy and climate more democratic, specifically to move...

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