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Despite what the anti-genetic engineering forces want you to believe, there is growing political, scientific and agricultural support across Europe for food grown from genetically engineered (GE) seeds.

In this week’s EU roundup, we’re covering the launch of a new report on the Commission’s carbon farming proposal, the EU Food Forum discussion on the SUR reform, and the 400k petition for regulating New Genomic Techniques. In this week’s EU roundup, we’re covering the launch of a new report on the Commission’s carbon farming proposal, the EU Food Forum discussion on the SUR reform, and the 400k petition for regulating New Genomic Techniques.

The "Saves Bees and Farmers" coalition presented their citizen-backed demands for pesticide reduction at the European Parliament.

French Green Benoît Biteau says the bloc should go full steam ahead to its climate goals amid a global food crisis.

Greens/EFA MEPs write to express their views on the European Commission’s plan to introduce a separate legislation for genetically modified (GM) plants produced by certain “new genomic techniques”. Greens/EFA oppose the introduction of separate legislation for products of new genetic modification (GM) techniques such as targeted mutagenesis and cisgenesis.

The dramatic thriller Goliath tells the story of farmers fighting against toxic pesticides and a big multinational company. Join us in the European Parliament for a screening, together with the film crew and MEPs Benoit Biteau (Greens/EFA), Eric Andrieu (S&D).

The European Parliament gave its final green light on Tuesday to the EU's vast farm subsidy programme despite the opposition of environmentalists, who denounced its terms as "greenwashing".

During this plenary session, the European Parliament will debate the Common Agricultural Policy, the EU budget for 2022, the outcome of COP26, a European strategy for critical raw materials, ...