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).
EU politics
Politico: Majority of Western companies doing business as usual in Russia, study finds
Only about 8 percent of EU firms have divested from Russia, with the majority of Western firms still active in the country being German. Read the article HERE.
Corruption
Politico: Inside Facebook’s fight against European regulation
Dozens of Commission documents show how the tech giant pushed back against rules on issues ranging from copyright to privacy. Read here
Climate Crisis
Reuters: EU parliament backs labelling gas and nuclear investments as ‘green’
Germany and France have once again pushed through their interests Read Here Robert Habeck, Germany’s Green Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and patron saint of “Green Gas” Photo: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung licensed under the Creative […]
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