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Articles by Bart Staes
Gaat de Green Deal ver genoeg?
De Europese Commissie moet het klimaatbeleid koppelen aan een serieuze aanpak van belastingfraude en -ontwijking, vindt Bart Staes.
Why the new CAP will be worse for the climate and farmers
With €365 billion between 2021-2027 the Common Agricultural Policy will continue to represent the second biggest budget of the EU. The CAP’s objectives remain largely unchanged since 1962 and need to be radically reviewed if we want them to reflect social demands and the finite environmental limits, write a group of Green MEPs. Maria Heubuch, Martin Hausling, Thomas Waitz, José Bové and Bart Staes are members of the European Parliament for the Greens – European Free Alliance.
In breach of REACH: Europe’s chemical dieselgate
The European Union cannot keep turning a blind eye to the flood of illegal chemicals, writes Bart Staes. Bart Staes is a Belgian Member of the European Parliament for the Greens/EFA group. He is co-rapporteur in the Special Committee on Pesticides in the European Parliament. At least one third of the 1,814 high production volume (more than 1,000 tons per year) chemicals made or imported into Europe since 2010 are in breach of the European Chemicals Regulation (REACH) and thus illegal under EU law.
Europe must get serious about short food supply chains
Europe must get serious about short food supply chains (SFSC) and put an end to the frustrating inconsistencies within the Common Agricultural Policy and with other European policy fields, write Maria Heubuch and Bart Staes. Maria Heubuch and Bart Staes are MEPs and member of the European Greens. Making a clear choice in favour of SFSC and ironing out these inconsistencies is a way for the EU to really make a difference.
‘New GMOs’ are not progress, but another tool of industrial farming
The EU Court of Justice will soon publish its ruling concerning the legal statute of a group of biotechnologies, which have been called “new plant breeding techniques” by the industry. This opinion article is co-signed by Members of the European Parliament from the Greens/EFA political group: José Bové, Martin Häusling, Maria Heubuch, Bart Staes and Thomas Waitz.
The moment for a future-proof EU agriculture and food policy is now
The next reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) should bring agricultural and food policies out of their respective silos and aligns actions across different areas in support of building sustainable food systems, write Sirpa Pietikainen and Bart Staes.
Is deep-sea mining worth the risk?
There is no evidence that deep-sea mining will reduce our dependency on land-based mining. We need to end business as usual and act to reduce the demand for these raw materials by making the transition towards a circular economy, write a group of Greens/EFA MEPs. Linnéa Engström from Sweden, Marco Affronte from Italy, Bart Staes and Philippe Lamberts from Belgium are all Members of European Parliament for the Green/EFA group. MEP Lamberts is the co-president of the Greens/EFA.
An outside-the-box solution to Brexit and the Strasbourg seat
Relocating the EU’s UK-based agencies to Strasbourg and ending the European Parliament’s monthly travelling circus is a logical solution that would benefit everyone, argues MEP Bart Staes. Bart Staes is a Belgian Green MEP and a member of the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control. In the wake of Brexit, the European Commission wants to find a new location for the European Agencies in London as soon as possible.
MEPs’ sad games undermine the Parliament’s due rights
DISCLAIMER: All opinions in this column reflect the views of the author(s), not of EurActiv.com PLC. In their attempt to fast-track the EU-Canada agreement, some MEPs are reversing years of progress in democratising the European Union, warn MEPs Anne-Marie Mineur, Bart Staes and Pavel Poc. Anne-Marie Mineur (GUE/NGL) is a member of the Committee on International Trade and shadow rapporteur on CETA. Bart Staes (Greens/EFA) is a rapporteur on the CETA opinion.
Dalligate: Exit Barroso, with a toxic legacy
It is almost two years to the day that Commission President José Manuel Barroso sacked his Public Health Commissioner John Dalli after a tobacco lobbying scandal. Green MEPs Bart Staes and José Bové reflect on why the Barroso Commission’s legacy will be one where lobbying, conflicts of interests and corporate interests took over European decision making. They discuss if that legacy will live on in the negotiations over TTIP.
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