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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Strict EU laws on food are seen as the right solution to climate change issue. But, a responsible supply chain would work better with less law-ties In the past 20 years, European Union has enacted many new rules and regulations concerning food. How our food is produced, transported, labeled, and even consumed has all been […]
If you have ever looked into the past voting history of the European Commission and European Parliament you may have noticed there isn’t any public record. You cannot see past members or current members vote on different issues. While the European Commission continues to demand more and more transparency from everyone else, they have made […]
What’s the solution to this period of difficulty of democracies? On one hand we have the populist solutions, actually very similar to the old ones. On the other, institutions could embrace innovative proposals like the citizens assembly created in Ireland in 2016. Today, a major challenge for democracies and governments is hearing the voice of […]
The provisional results for the election of the European Parliament are now in, and now it is time for the soon to be elected officials to come together to combat the many hot issues in European politics today. With a turn out of a little over 51% of European Voters, more people voted to have […]