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FoEE folk in Brussels, campaigning for resilient & just societies in harmony with the planet.
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✊🐷 It's the first ever European week of action against animal factories!

Communities from 7 European countries are joining forces to defend local, small-scale farming respectful of animals, nature & our wellbeing

More about #StopFactoryFarmingEurope on our brand new website 👉 stopfactoryfarming.eu
💥 BLACK FRIDAY FAIL 💥

We need more well-being, not more useless stuff 💯

Overconsumption is eating up our future. Even buying “green” reinforces a system based on overextraction and overproduction. Time to reset our economies!
November 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
#EUMercosur: "The procedure led by the European Commission has been chaotic, untransparent and, more importantly, raises significant legal issues."

How so? Read @audreychangoe.bsky.social & EU law expert Professor Nicolas De Sadeleer's great roundup to find out 👇
November 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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🚨 The EU Ombudswoman confirms it: the Commission committed maladministration on #Omnibus I.

Rushed, opaque, corporate-driven lawmaking is not acceptable.

With more Omnibus packages coming, the message is clear: the EU cannot dismantle rights behind closed doors
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JOINT PRESS RELEASE EU watchdog slams Commission’s undemocratic environmental rollbacks - ECCJ
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November 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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We were right! 👀
The EU Ombudswoman has called out the European Commission for maladministration over the 2024 #simplification of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱? ⚠️
In 2024, the Commission launched an “urgent” Omnibus to amend two core CAP regulations.
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This is BIG and we hope the @ec.europa.eu is listening for the next Omnibus packages!

❗Laws cannot be weakened in this way
❗Stop immediately with the watering down of environmental protections through rushed, non-democratic processes

#NoToOmnibus

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EU watchdog slams Commission’s undemocratic environmental rollbacks  - Friends of the Earth Europe
The EU Commission violated fundamental principles of good administration in rolling back environmental + human rights protections (Omnibus I)
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November 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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The statement calls on EU leaders to:

1️⃣ Scrap its #greenhydrogen import targets & phase out fossil fuels

2️⃣ End public subsidies for green hydrogen import infrastructure & related projects

3️⃣ Support Global South countries with their just transitions, funded by big polluters

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November 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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📣 130+ groups tell EU to scrap its #greenhydrogen import plans that prioritise Europe's flawed energy agenda over the rights, needs, and futures of communities in the Global South.

Read more 🧵 1/5 👇

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November 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The EU banned many pesticides because they're toxic, yet European corporations keeps exporting them.

🌍 From Brazil to India, Bangladesh to Uganda, people are sending them back to Brussels 🎞️👇

#ReturnToSender #BanToxicExports
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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There is a blossoming movement in Europe for a just economic and social system, nurtured by a vision of degrowth.

Here is a recap of the key degrowth events of the past few months 👇
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Degrowth: A blossoming movement in Europe’s grassroots and civil society - Friends of the Earth Europe
There is a blossoming movement for a radical and systemic shift away from the current social and economic rules, fired by a vision of degrowth. In the past months, Friends of the Earth attended the In...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
✊🐷 It's the first ever European week of action against animal factories!

Communities from 7 European countries are joining forces to defend local, small-scale farming respectful of animals, nature & our wellbeing

More about #StopFactoryFarmingEurope on our brand new website 👉 stopfactoryfarming.eu
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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⚡PRESS RELEASE COP30 Closes: Hijacking by rich countries and dire need for peoples’ multilateralism

Now, 10 years since the Paris Agreement and 30 years since the Rio Summit, Friends of the Earth Intl calls out the hypocrisy of rich countries as multilateralism hangs in the balance.

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COP30 Closes: Hijacking by rich countries and dire need for peoples’ multilateralism
The United Nations climate talks have officially closed in Belém, Brazil with decisions made on climate finance, adaptation and the just transition.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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💜✊ En este hashtag#25N alzamos la voz contra todas las violencias que atraviesan cuerpos, territorios y comunidades. Desde Amigas de la Tierra reafirmamos nuestro compromiso con la justicia social y ambiental, y con la defensa de la vida digna para todas. hashtag#NiUnaMenos hashtag#25N2025
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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💣“They say ‘Just Transition, leaves no one behind’. But when you look at the reality, everyone is left behind.” - Zethu Hlatshwayo, South African climate justice activist featured in CEO’s documentary.

Join us for the premiere in Brussels on 27th Nov at 7pm

🎬 Watch our new trailer 👇
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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🚨Le #ToxicTradeTour s’est achevé à BXL aujd, avec un message clair pour Von der Leyen et Bart de Wever :
📢Stoppez l’accord #UEmercosur car il est toxique : pour l’agriculture, la santé, le climat, l’environnement et la biodiversité, les droits sociaux et les droits humains, en 🇪🇺 et dans le Mercosur.
November 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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🚫 NO to the EU-Mercosur agreement 🚫

It threatens workers’ rights, farmers’ livelihoods, public health and the environment both in EU and in Mercosur countries.

🌱 Today EFFAT joined #NGOs, farmers and #CSOs to demand fair, sustainable and rights-based trade.
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The #ToxicTradeTour hit Brussels this morning with pesticide barrels & green sludge showing what’s at stake when leaders won't answer for trade justice.

🇪🇺 Commission President von der Leyen & 🇧🇪 PM de Wever: will you choose farmers, nature & people above corporate profits? Will you #StopEUMercosur?
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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💥 Next week, on Monday, we'll be right outside as EU trade ministers meet, joining @foeeurope.bsky.social @cncd.be and others in the heart of Brussels' EU quarter to demand the ministers reject this deal

#StopEUMercosur

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🚨 Act now before Europe’s trade ministers meet on 24 November:

1️⃣ Email your decision-makers on stopeumercosur.org/take-action/

2️⃣ Join the #ToxicTradeTour stop in Brussels on 24 November, 10:00, Petite rue de la Loi

#StopEUMercosur
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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⚡️PRESS RELEASE

Hundreds of movements converge in internationalist solidarity as Peoples’ Summit closes

Over 24k participants committed to fighting the drivers of the climate crisis. United, movements advanced the real solutions to the crisis that are built daily in territories.

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Hundreds of movements converge as Peoples' Summit closes
24,000+ participants across hundreds of movements are committed to fighting the drivers of the climate crisis. Movements advanced the real climate solutions.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
#EUMercosur is nearing ratification & it’s going to bring toxins to our tables, deforestation to the Amazon & violence to indigenous peoples.

This is a slimy, dirty trade deal.

Join us in Brussels on Monday for the last stop of the #ToxicTradeTour & show EU leaders what this deal really is about.
November 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Some good reads about fossil fuel lobbyists at COP ✨

Euronews: www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

Reporterre (FR): reporterre.net/En-depit-des...
One in 25 COP30 attendees is a fossil fuel lobbyist, analysis finds
Analysis finds 1,600 fossil fuel representatives at UN climate summit in Brazil, outnumbering almost every country delegation.
www.euronews.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Why aren’t MEPs even allowed to vote⁉️

145 MEPs tabled a motion to refer the #EUMercosur deal to the Court of Justice of the EU. Now, under pressure from group leaders & EP President Metsola, it may be blocked based on a rule with no legal basis.

Let MEPs vote. Let the Court decide. #StopEUMercosur
November 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
We and 95 other civil society organisations signed the pledge for #FossilFreePolitics, committing to:

1️⃣ Protect policymaking from fossil fuel capture
2️⃣ Demand transparency
4️⃣ Expose the access the industry continues to receive
5️⃣ Align our work with Fossil Free Politics

Have you signed it yet?
November 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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ECCHR filed a criminal complaint against TotalEnergies for complicity in war crimes, torture and enforced disappearance. The oil and gas major is accused of having supported Mozambican armed forces which allegedly detained and tortured dozens of civilians in 2021. 👉 www.ecchr.eu/en/press-rel...
November 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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🧵 En pleine #COP30 et alors que Total veut relancer Mozambique LNG, une plainte pénale vient d’être déposée contre elle pour complicité de crimes de guerre, torture et disparitions forcées au Mozambique.
👉 portée par @ecchr.bsky.social
#StopMozambiqueLNG
November 18, 2025 at 7:38 AM
This morning, industry and EU functionaries received a grand welcome to the #RawMaterialsWeek. Grassroots orgs & people affected by mining demanded: No minerals for militarisation! Yes to Life, No to Mining!
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM