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    Old phone taken apart/ CC0 James Jewis
    Old phone taken apart/ CC0 James Jewis
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    E-WASTE IS JUST LIKE LOVE

    Have you ever heard about premature obsolescence? Negligent – and sometimes intentional – design practices that reduce the lifetime of products. We want a common EU market that favours products that last. Good for your pockets, good for consumers, and good for the planet!
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    Shoal of fish/ CC0 Sebastian Pena Lambarri
    Shoal of fish/ CC0 Sebastian Pena Lambarri
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    Maritime Spatial Planning

    Grace O'Sullivan
    Opinion by Grace O'Sullivan
    New study shows that effective Maritime Spatial Planning does not view the marine space through prisms of exploitation and economic development, or environmental protection alone.
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    Surveillance Cameras/CC0 Milosz Klinowski
    Surveillance Cameras/CC0 Milosz Klinowski
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    Ban Biometric Mass Surveillance

    Governments are experimenting with highly intrusive facial recognition systems and other biometric mass surveillance in public spaces in the EU. We think they have alarming consequences for fundamental rights and want them to be banned.
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    Shipping containers and cranes/ CC0 Ammiel JR
    Shipping containers and cranes/ CC0 Ammiel JR
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    Let’s rebuild a fairer, greener and more sustainable trade policy

    The EU Trade Policy Review is a unique opportunity to fundamentally rethink and reshape our rules to ensure EU trade is fairer, greener, more sustainable and better for people and planet. These are some of the Greens/EFA's highlights.
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    Artwork Rainbow on wall/ CC0 Kevin Grieve
    Artwork Rainbow on wall/ CC0 Kevin Grieve
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    We can only win against Covid if we act together

    Anna Cavazzini
    Opinion by Anna Cavazzini
    With the advent of a new vaccine, hopes are now rising that there could be an end on the horizon. However, the vaccine itself has presented a number of logistical and diplomatic challenges, as many governments have begun playing the politics of division instead of pulling together to save lives.
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    Opinion |

    CAP 2020

    Confused about the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and everything that's going on around it? Check this article and get a green perspective.
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    harvest_soybeans_plantation
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    Stop the import of GM crops destroying nature

    Eleonora Evi Tilly Metz
    Opinion by Eleonora Evi & Tilly Metz
    MEPs Tilly Metz and Eleonora Evi argue that the EU must no longer be complicit in the destruction of primary forests, expansion of monocultures and use of toxic chemicals banned in the EU through the continued import of GM crops.
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    © Tiburonstudios
    Free as a bird © Tiburonstudios
    Opinion |

    A bad day for human rights abusers

    Heidi Hautala
    Opinion by Heidi Hautala
    The European Parliament has for several years called for a new tool to sanction human rights abusers worldwide. Finally on 7 December the EU Council adopted this regime which will allow the EU to impose travel bans and asset freezes on the grounds of trafficking, arbitrary arrests, slavery, as well as the more serious crimes...
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    Social media icons on phone screen / CC0 dole777
    Social media icons on phone screen / CC0 dole777
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    Fighting for your rights online

    Did you know that the EU's internet rules haven't changed in 20 years? The reform of the rules through the "Digital Services Package” has the potential to be either a threat to fundamental rights or a major improvement.
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    Artwork painting of colourful hands on a wall/ CC0 Tim Mossholder
    Artwork painting of colourful hands on a wall/ CC0 Tim Mossholder
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    No place for fossil fuels in the Just Transition Fund

    The Just Transition Fund is the first instrument of the European Green Deal. Thanks to the Greens/EFA, co-legislators agreed to remove funding for natural gas projects from the final text entirely.