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    Fridays for Future demonstration European Council/Anuna De Wever/Adélaïde Charlier
    Fridays for Future demonstration European Council/Anuna De Wever/Adélaïde Charlier
    Opinion |

    The EU recovery plan

    In our previous blog, “Financing the green deal,” we have already briefly discussed the EU Recovery Plan. This plan was proposed by the European Commission to define the procedure of recovery in Europe after the COVID crisis. While it is mainly focused on rebuilding the economy, a lot of voices in and outside of the European institutions …
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    Hong Kong Island Skyline
    Opinion |

    No feel-good summit

    Reinhard Bütikofer
    Opinion by Reinhard Bütikofer
    When Commission President von der Leyen and Council President Michel meet China's Prime Minister Li Keqiang today for an electronic version of the traditional EU-China Summit, there is only one question: feel-good summit, yes or no?
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    Green Growth
    Opinion |

    Financing the green deal

    As you know the commission proposed a pact called the European Green Deal, that will be the roadmap for Europe to tackle climate change and become carbon neutral in 2050. In our previous blogs we have explained what this pact is, and what it is not. In this blog, we would like to address an important aspect that is missing: MONEY. In the …
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    orange flowers © by Henry Be
    Opinion |

    Nature must be at the heart of the post-Covid-19 recovery

    Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg Grace O'Sullivan
    Opinion by Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg & Grace O'Sullivan
    Biodiversity is all around us. Even for those restricted to home in these trying and sad times, a cursory look around shows a world teeming with life.
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    COVID-19
    Opinion |

    Will COVID-19 destroy or empower the European Green Deal?

    This new crisis might be a make it or break it moment, and it is crucial we don’t return to business as usual afterwards. Let’s not forget that going back to normal is going back to a climate emergency.
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    Opinion |

    The COVID-19 crisis reveals the many fissures of the EU food system and shows us the way out

    As COVID-19 hits the EU agri-food sector hard, it also reveals its main shortcomings. Far from shying away from the issues, we should use this occasion to reshape the EU food and farming system to the benefit of farmers, consumers and their shared environment, with the help of the future Farm to Fork strategy, and, hopefully a refounded C…
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    Le coronavirus menace le monde
    Opinion |

    All about the european green deal

    The European Green Deal is a pact that was launched this year by the European Commission. It aims to make Europe the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050. This all sounds good on paper, but will it be enough?
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    Picture of migrants in Greece
    Opinion |

    Evacuate vulnerable asylum seekers from Greek islands

    Tineke Strik
    Opinion by Tineke Strik
    Members of the European Parliament are calling on the crisis team of the European Commission to make an emergency plan to protect vulnerable asylum seekers against Covid-19. On the Greek islands are now more than 42.000 asylum seekers, while camps were supposed to house 6.000 people
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    All about the EU climate law

    The European Green Deal is a pact that was launched by the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. And the climate law is consequently one of the most important parts of the green deal.