Big global biotech corporations like Bayer and Corteva, which together already control 40% of the global seed market, are dangerously trying to reinforce their monopoly and threatening food security. A group of seed saving, environmental and consumer organisations, including Corporate Europe Observatory, reveals how these companies seek to increase their control over the future of food and farming by extensively patenting plants and developing a new generation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Environment
Reuters: Austrian parliament backs EU’s first total ban of weedkiller glyphosate
Apparently this sovereign decision will be overruled by EU law. Once again the EU proves that it is here to serve international corporations and not the people of Europe. Read here
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker: Still on a knife’s edge? German federal government fails to recognise the true economic situation
Anyone in the civilised world who wants to drive a car must prove that he can correctly assess the direction of movement and speed of his vehicle, master the aids of stabilisation and gain a […]
EU politics
Reuters – Audits reveal Deutsche Bank’s links to tax trade scandal
No banking scandals without the participation of Deutsche Bank. This one is massive and the German national government is doing all it can – as is also the case in Volkswagen´s diesel cheating – to […]
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