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European Commission proposal on new GMOs favours biopiracy
On July 5, the European Commission presented its proposal to create a new regulatory framework for certain GMOs [1]. This proposal gives centre stage to biopiracy and the privatization of all seeds by patent-holding companies, to the detriment of farmers’ rights to seed. European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC), which represents peasant farmers across Europe, calls on the European Parliament and European Council to reject this unacceptable proposal. Below is ECVC’s initial analysis of the proposal.
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The semantics of the Recovery and Resilience Facility
Lexicometry can help identify the dominant concepts of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (MRR), the themes absent from it and the way in which the public authorities construct a semantics capable of concealing the interests of the ruling classes in the current crisis.1 In this dissertation we leave some clues on the interest of semantic analysis of European directives for the understanding of their policy objectives.