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19/02/2025Press Releases
19/02/2025
Vision on Agriculture and Food must deliver for farmed animals, say campaigners
European Commission urged to provide clarity and have high ambition in its Vision promise to modernise animal welfare and ban cages.
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12/02/2025
European Commission must publish proposals to modernise animal welfare rules and ban cages in 2026, say campaigners
EU executive urged to clarify plans for consultations ahead of delivery of proposals to improve animal welfare and ban cages
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06/02/2025
Better animal welfare brings benefit to all: Commissioner Várhelyi
Event highlighted need to share burden of financing transition towards higher-welfare food systems, with European Commission renewing commitment to deliver promised animal welfare legislation.
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23/01/2025
Campaigners welcome decision to allow major animal welfare NGOs to join landmark End the Cage Age legal action
Compassion in World Farming has today (23 January) welcomed the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union to allow major NGOs to join its landmark legal action, but described the rejection of other NGOs as ‘short-sighted’.
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19/12/2024
Campaigners welcome European Commission commitment to start delivering animal welfare review in 2026 with cage ban as a priority
Compassion in World Farming today (19 December) welcomed the European Commission’s commitment to start delivering the promised animal welfare reform in 2026, with the proposals to ban caged farming as a priority.
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10/12/2024
Compassion backs mounting pressure on EU Commission to modernise EU animal welfare rules
Compassion in World Farming today welcomed the strong signals sent by the several member states and the European Parliament, urging the European Commission to deliver on its promise to ban cages and reform its outdated animal welfare…
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04/11/2024
New Commissioners must quickly deliver already overdue animal welfare reform
Compassion in World Farming is calling on European lawmakers to ensure that action to deliver on animal welfare commitments is central to the new Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare’s role in the new mandate and not just to the job…
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04/11/2024
Undercover investigation exposes suffering and frustration of caged rabbits and underlines urgent need for EU cage ban
A new undercover investigation released today (4 Nov) exposes the immense suffering of around 70 million rabbits still caged on farms across Europe and reinforces the urgent need for the European Commission to deliver its promised cage ban.
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10/10/2024
MEPs invited to ‘free farmed animals from cages’ outside the EU Parliament
MEPs are being invited to ‘free farmed animals from cages’ at an event outside the European Parliament on World Cage Free Day (14 October) to show their support for the promised EU ban on caged animal farming.
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08/10/2024
Governments urged to stop funding cruel and unsustainable octopus farming on World Octopus Day
NGOs unite to stop governments and the EU funding octopus farming as new research reveals Spanish Government has spent the most
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