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October 8, 2024
According to the study “Straight to Your Hormones” by our member, Ecologistas en Acción, food sold in Spain in 2022, both imported and state-produced, had residues of 106 pesticides. The study analyse...
October 3, 2024
On September 17, 2024, Friends of the Earth Hungary in collaboration with PAN Europe, Hand Alliance, and Friends of the Earth Europe organised a conference titled “A Path Towards Resilient EU Agricult...
October 1, 2024
During a recent conference in the European Parliament a variety of speakers displayed the ongoing health and environmental threats posed by pesticide use. It called for urgent legislative action, bett...
September 30, 2024
The European Commission is using a dangerous concept to renew the authorisation of a very harmful pesticide that can damage the unborn child. For the very first time, it plans to use an exceptional cl...
September 12, 2024
Timișoara is a famous Romanian town. This is where the 1989 revolution started that ended the Ceauceșcu dictatorship. Recently, the town made headlines again, less favourable this time. In a Facebook ...
September 11, 2024
Is the Dutch pesticide authority CTGB allowed to disclose information on secret pesticide co-formulants to PAN Europe? That is the gist of the hearing taking place today in the Netherlands as a result...
September 10, 2024
During the Olympics, the world saw how the capital city of France still looked nice and clean. It was not overgrown by weeds in the 7 years the city has not used pesticides. The Pesticide Action Netwo...
September 9, 2024
In a deeply concerning move, the European Commission plans to allow residues of three highly toxic pesticides in certain imported food. The substances are banned in the EU due to their severe health r...
July 29, 2024
According to a recent EU communication, the use and risk of chemical pesticides decreased by 46% compared to 2015-2017. Miraculous, for it contradicts Eurostat's pesticide sales data which show no cle...
July 25, 2024
The EU needs better protection of its water, but representatives of Member States don’t seem to understand. Water quality in the EU is protected by different laws, which are not currently respected. T...