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Talks on hold for EU US free trade agreement (TTIP)
Yesterday the European Commission announced a public consultation on the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) part of the TTIP. […]
Yesterday the European Commission announced a public consultation on the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) part of the TTIP. […]
The new book (to be released January 30th) takes an investigative journey behind the closed doors of an industry that should be better understood […]
So what about the agri-food system are people fed up with? […]
Dominika Jarosz of the campaign Feed the 5000 explains her work helps fight the food waste scandal and why she will be joining in Berlin. […]
Pierre-Alain will be on stage for the demonstration this Saturday revving up the crowd. He shares a bit about his work on a recent campaign, ‘1000 Cows’, below. […]
What are the consequences of a diet laden in meat and dairy products? […]
France is bracing for a new horse meat scandal […]
(Brussels, 12/12/2013) BEGINS We at ARC2020.eu are delighted to bring you the updated version of our CAP implementation tookit. This document will be of use to policy makers and campaigners alike. It brings information on the CAP reform process right up to date at European and member state (MS) level. Not only does our toolkit list all the basic background details and all the up-to-date processes at EU level, individual MS and their interpretation of CAP reform are also highlighted. This CAP reform process has given significantly more power to the MS to implement the CAP in their own way – our updated toolkit shows you what your MS is doing. Dedicated sections on France, Germany, Poland, Spain, the UK, Ireland, Greece have been written for this document. Individual MS attitudes and actions on internal convergence, top ups, transfers between pillars and coupled payments have also been added. CAP Implementation at national and regional level must be approved by the Commission before the end of 2013 for Rural Development Programmes (Pillar 2) and by August […]
A true cost of Germany’s industrial pig farms […]
Peasants and citizens protesting against fracking are confronted with increased police brutality […]
With winter approaching fast, we’ve asked a farmer and a food writer to share some ideas and recipes for making the most of what’s growing this season. […]
As of today you can vote for Syngenta, Bayer and BASF, the “bee-killers”. […]
(Brussels, 22/11/2013) BEGINS The European Parliament held its final vote on Wednesday 20th November on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). In voting as it did, Parliament has it intensified the failure to deliver what was supposed to be a fairer, simpler and greener agriculture policy for Europe. ”Business as usual has prevailed at 90%” said Benedikt Haerlin of NGO platform ARC2020.EU and Meine Landwirtschaft. “Unfortunately the role of the European Parliament had been to substantially cut back on the initial progress towards sustainability proposed by the European Commission. From 2014 to 2020 we will see at least as many farms being closed down within the European Union, organic farming will suffer financially, biodiversity will suffer even more and the role of the European Union in the world will continue to be a resource-sucker at the expense of the global poor and the environment.” Importantly, all amendments, some of which could have improved the proposals, were dropped and not voted on. This democratically questionable move occurred due to a change in the voting order of the overall EU budget […]
The EP’s final vote on the CAP intensified the failure to deliver a fairer, simpler and greener agriculture policy for Europe. […]
Join the demonstration for better food and better farming! […]
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