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).
Austerity
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Economics
DeStatis – Germany: Public debt reached all-time high of 2.3 trillion euros at the end of 2021
The debt owed by the overall public budget (Federation, Länder, municipalities and associations of municipalities, social security funds, including all extra budgets) to the non-public sector amounted to 2,319.8 billion euros at the end of […]
Climate Crisis
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Norway claims to be one of the climate leaders and it was among the first countries to ratify the Paris Agreement. The Scandinavian country is pursuing an “aggressive policy of expanding its oil and gas […]
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