Joint statement: The EU weakens the rules that safeguard people and the environment
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Advocacy
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Nature based solutions
We joined over 470 civil society organisations, trade unions, and public interest groups in opposing the European Commission’s plans to implement drastic cuts to regulations protecting the environment, as well as labour, social, human, and digital rights.
The letter warns that, over the next four years, the Commission and EU Member States may dismantle rules governing companies operating in the EU at a scale that could set back progress on environmental protection, social rights, digital rights, and climate policies by many years.
The speed and scale of the response from civil society across Europe demonstrates that the deregulation agenda has raised widespread concerns, with organisations unanimously calling for rules that protect people and the environment.