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Published 25/06/2024News
Published 25/06/2024
Open letter by civil society on the live animals shipment to the Middle East
Following an attack on a ship carrying some 12,000 live animals from the EU to the port of Haifa, we wrote to EU Commissioner Kyriakides urging to suspend all live animal shipments from the EU to the region for as long as hostilities continue.
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Published 27/05/2024
Animal welfare must be a priority for the next Commission
We applaud the five EU countries who today called on the European Commission to put animal welfare at the centre of its next mandate during an EU ministerial meeting in Brussels.
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Published 13/05/2024
Open letter by civil society on the rollback of green measures in the EU
With only a month to go until European elections, over 140 civil society organisations are raising the alarm in a new open letter about a broad attack on many of the EU’s flagship green measures and commitments.
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Published 07/12/2023
New EU law to protect animals during transport – a missed opportunity
Today, the European Commission published a proposal to reform the EU’s outdated rules for the transport of live animals.
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Published 19/10/2023
Citizens Committee weighs up legal options to deliver EU cages ban, as new poll confirms it has overwhelming public support
A huge majority of Europeans supports a ban on individual cages for farmed animals, a new poll has revealed today. Despite this overwhelming support, the European Commission has failed to publish its draft proposals for a ban as promised.
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Published 13/10/2023
MEPs fail citizens on animal welfare, new analysis reveals
European Parliament lawmakers from centre-right and right-wing groups consistently vote against measures to improve the welfare of farmed animals, finds a new analysis of over 10,000 datapoints published today by Compassion in World Farming.
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Published 04/10/2023
EU Commission slaps democracy in the face, signals GAME OVER for EU animal welfare revolution
Today, the European Commission has finally broken its silence on its promised draft animal welfare revolution, signalling it is game over for the promised ban on caged farming.
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Published 03/10/2023
EU Green Deal nominee calls promised animal welfare revolution “difficult”
Today, Commission Executive Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič characterised the file with the revision of the animal welfare legislation “difficult” when questioned by lawmakers in the European Parliament.
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Published 25/09/2023
11 Key Measures for Food Transformation
The EU’s legislative framework for sustainable food systems (FSFS) is expected soon, a coalition of 5 European organisations released a groundbreaking report titled ‘Plant-Powered Politics: Europe's Shift Towards a Plant-Based System’.
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Published 13/09/2023
Fears EU has shelved promised ban on caged farming
Today, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen revealed in her State of the Union speech that the European Commission is shelving its unprecedented commitment to ban caged farming, in response to a referendum-like action by 1.4 million…
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