My Articles About Agriculture

15. March 202410. April 2024 | Thomas Waitz

Nature Restoration Law: Success Against Conservative Opposition

The Nature Restoration Law is an opportunity and necessity to continue the fight against the climate crisis and the associated loss of biodiversity. In order to protect our climate, we […]

Agriculture

4. March 20246. March 2024 | Thomas Waitz

New GMO law: uncertainty for consumers …

In July 2023, the Commission presented a proposal for a new regulation on new genomic techniques (NGT), which would mean an almost...

8. February 20246. March 2024 | Thomas Waitz

Angry farmers and right-wing demagogues

European farmers are angry, and rightly so. Between 2003 and 2016, five million European farmers had to close down their farms. Right-wing...

24. May 202324. May 2023 | Thomas Waitz

No to the Eu-Mercosur trade deal

In the following letter, EU parliamentarians jointly call for the EU-Mercosur agreement to be reopened in order to be able to regulate...

29. September 202213. December 2022 | Thomas Waitz

Revealed: Suffering on Pig-Farms

In 2021, 141 million pigs were kept on farms in the EU. A large proportion of them live at least part of...

29. September 202220. October 2022 | Thomas Waitz

New GMOs and “Independent” …

In 2018 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that new gene-edited organisms (GMOs) are covered by the EU’s GMO laws and...

5. July 20226. July 2022 | Thomas Waitz

Forest-Expeditions: Europe’s …

Field visits in Spain and the Baltic States show: Europe's forests are threatened by forest fires, clear-cutting and the climate crisis.

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