The Farm to Fork Strategy, embedded in the European Green Deal, is the EU’s instrument to act in favor of a sustainable food chain and food system. This action plan will be implemented in the period between 2020 and 2023. Its goals are different, addressing a “0” environmental impact, the adaptation of the food industry […]
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The alarm rang in Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe – May 5, 2020. The decision of the German Constitutional Court of Karlsruhe issued on purchases of government bonds made in 2015 by the ECB (the Quantitative Easing introduced by Draghi years ago), has a strong impact in Germany. Yet, it is a wake-up call for the pro-Europeans who have been deceiving Europeans by […]
FFCI & Property Rights Alliance Celebrate World IP Day
Last 26th of April, Forfreechoice Insitute joined the Property Rights Alliance’s initiative. Along with other 92 think tanks from 49 countries to celebrate World Intellectual Property Day. Property Rights Alliance Celebrates World IP Day, Launches Open Letter to WIPO Washington, DC – Property Rights Alliance, in partnership with 91 think tanks and advocacy associations in […]
Anti-Palm Oil Claims Like a Virus around Europe
Like COVID-19 the anti-palm oil claims spread around Europe We warned you!!! Anti-Palm Oil Claims will penetrate Europe. Following the Italian path, the claim Palm Oil free is spreading throughout Europe, like a virus. Italian Food companies and retailers paved the way. They have massively used it in their commercial and marketing strategies: misleading consumers […]
New Action Plan for the EU Circular Economy
Circular economy: EU’s latest action plan. We are at a time of great uncertainty across the world. The outbreak of COVID-19 is jeopardizing health systems in many countries, viewing Europe as the epicenters of this crisis. The European Commission has continued to make progress on its Green Pact presented at the end of last year. […]
Sustainable Diet: what the Eat-Lancet tells us
Sustainable Diet Today, food owns a new role as we are approaching an increasing consumer and health-conscious world. That is to improve the well-being of man and environmental sustainability. For this reason, the Eat-Lancet Commission developed the “Food in the Anthropocene: the eat-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems“, an interdisciplinary study focusing […]
Green Deal 2050, is Europe really ready?
Will Europe be carbon-neutral by 2050? This is the aim of the new European Green Deal. If this were to happen, it would certainly have a positive turning point for the thousand possibilities of development and employment. The Commission seems to want to send a clear and strong message to the whole world about the […]
Are we ready for driverless cars?
After years of speculation, driverless cars seem to be more and more real. However, as Gartner analyst Mike Ramsey says, it will take at least ten years to be easily accessible to all. The road to self-driving is still uncertain because of the excessively high costs, lack of market, and lack of standard safety regulations that […]
Nutri-Score is further proof that EU policies are mostly illiberal
Nutri-Score is further proof that EU policies are illiberal Our Freedom is newly threatened. We are experiencing the attempt to defeat certainly important problems that are affecting our health, such as obesity, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases, with the imposition of a good diet. The institutions are supposed to guarantee our freedom of choice, and not to abuse science […]
Innovation & IP to Solve Global Health Challenges WHO
Innovation & IP to Solve Global Health Challenges WHO At the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Executive Board (EB) meeting in Geneva this week, member states will establish the global health agenda for 2020. One of these priority agenda items is finding sustainable pathways to implement universal health care (UHC) – a United Nations-backed initiative to […]