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Food & Water Europe together with the Council of Canadians and other groups - CEO, PSI, France Libertés etc. presented a letter to the European Parliament urging them to support the UN resolution on the human right to water.
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Food & Water Europe, together with other civil society organizations and trade unions, sent an open letter to Commissioner Olli Rehn warning that imposing water privatization as part of the bail-out packages could be a breach of EU legislation.
Read the letter. - Food & Water Europe together with a group of NGOs in Brussels sent a letter to all members of the European Parliament demanding full transparency in the decision-making process of the Common Agricultural Policy. Read the letter.
- Food & Water Europe signed on to a cartoon about Common Agricultural Policy.
- Food & Water Europe together with the Blue Planet project and EPSU produced a report on the impact of recent austerity measures in Europe on the right to water and sanitation.
- Food & Water Europe co-organized a fracking workshop at the Alternative World Water Forum. Here are some conclusions.
- The European Coordination of the Alternative World Water Forum (FAME) — including Food & Water Europe – EPSU – AQUATTAC, Belgian Social Forum and CNCD — organized a public hearing at the European Parliament in light of the Resolution that the European Parliament is debating on March 15th regarding the World Water Forum. Read more.
- Food & Water Europe has joined the European Alternative Trade Mandate Alliance. We’re looking forward to helping drive forward the fight for a trade system that really works for people and the environment.
- Food & Water Europe gathered with other organizers of the Alternative World Water Forum (french acronym FAME) in Barcelona for a preparation meeting and released this joint press communication on struggles around the world against the privatisation of water.
- Food & Water Europe is now part of the working group coordinating the newly created European Water Network which was brought together for the first time in Naples, Italy in December 2011. Watch this space for updates.
- We are part of the Alter EU coalition in Brussels which focuses on transparency in EU lobbying. Read the coalition’s new report.
- Food & Water Europe together with other civil society organisations sent
a letter to MEPs urging them not to approve an austerity package which would threaten our essential public services and social rights. - Food & Water Europe joined other groups in sending a letter to the internal market Commissioner Michel Barnier urging the Commission to tackle excessive food commodity speculation seriously.
- EFSA came out with a new opinion on food irradiation safety and we responded with a joint letter/press release.
- We recently held a conference in the European Parliament on the Common Agricultural Policy and presented The Missing Option.
- Together with a coalition of civil society groups, Food & Water Europe sent a letter to MEPs urging them to sign a written declaration in the European parliament on the protection of water as a public asset. Read the letter.
- Food & Water Europe gathered with other civil society organizations to ask the European Union to reshape the CAP with key proposals for a new Common Agriculture and Food Policy. Read the press release.
- Food & Water Europe presents its two newly released publications on Suez and Veolia, revealing the failure of the privatization of water around the world; at the European premiere of the new documentary film “Water Makes Money” in Brussels. Read the fact sheet or the report.
- Food & Water Europe wrote to the UK’s Food Standards Agency concerning the FSA’s publication — BITE magazine’s alarmingly one-sided treatment of nanotechnology in food.
Read the letter.
We recently held a conference in the European Parliament on the Common Agricultural Policy.
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Anna Witowska: awitowska(at)fweurope(dot)org