Friends of the Earth Europe

23/01/2024

Dear Friends of the Earth Europe's Facebook community,

Heads up! Starting now, we won't be posting (regularly) here anymore.

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Thank you for checking what we're up to and engaging with us, see you on our other channels! 👋

21/12/2023

⭐Time to celebrate ⭐

We gathered for the last time this year with the Right to Energy coalition to celebrate our campaign successes in 2023 💡

✨After tireless strong advocacy from many NGOs and unions, a Ban on Disconnections was included in the Electricity Market Redesign 👏

But the fight for a right to energy won’t end with the year. We looked forward, and shared our biggest wishes for the year to come in a very festive manner.

Thank you for all the great energy this year, warm wishes to everyone 🕯

19/12/2023

19/12/2023

🎁 Unveiling the anti-transparency Excuse Generator!

🇪🇺 Politicians are cozying up to Big Agri, seeking to scrap the 20-year-old label for , calling it 'confusing'.

Think it's a stupid excuse? Create & share your own 👉https://friendsoftheearth.eu/news/gm-food-without-labeling-no-more-stupid-excuses/

18/12/2023

All I want this winter is…❄

…to see people-powered energy solutions all over Europe instead of the current profit-driven energy system💡

Council of the European Union, we highly recommend to take a look at our plan to exit the energy price crisis ahead of the Energy Council tomorrow.

👉 bit.ly/people-powered-plan

11/12/2023

🛑 Today, EU's agriculture ministers deliberated on the planned deregulation of . And hit the brakes! 🛑

As we enter holiday season, ministers had the opportunity to put consumers, farmers & nature back on the nice list, instead of spoiling agribusiness lobbies once again. Which they did (at least for the time being)! 🎁

The ministers' lack of support for Presidencia española del Consejo de la UE's far-reaching deregulation proposal is a clear warning to lawmakers: excluding new GMOs from current rules would
🌊 Flood European fields with patented new GM seeds
🤑 Increase monopolies in the farming sector

Our food campaigner Mute Schimpf unwrapped for you the details of the Council proposal's background and impacts in this 🆕 blog 👉 https://friendsoftheearth.eu/news/deregulation-of-new-gmos-whos-on-the-nice-or-naughty-list/

And you can check out our reaction on today's Agri Council's outcome over here 👉 https://friendsoftheearth.eu/press-release/eu-agriculture-council-challenges-the-deregulation-of-new-gmos/

📸 Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft (AbL) /Anne Barth

30/11/2023

While Global North leaders are (hopefully) starting to debate climate solutions at , Emilia Reyes has a recipe for them:

Degrowth ➕ decolonisation 🟰 climate justice in action

At the root of the climate crisis lies an economy dependent on profit accumulation and colonial extraction. For a fair world we must tackle both.

Read her opinion piece in openDemocracy:

But degrowth in the Global North will not work unless it is done alongside reparations for the Global South