Vídeo: “Estado da União”: Proteger a natureza e controlar gigantes digitais

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Welcome to the State of the Union from Brussels what used to be an extraordinary exception now appears to have become an almost monthly Tradition at the European Union headquarters in Brussels hundreds of tractors on the streets and Farmers resorting to sometimes violent actions to attract the attention of Agriculture ministers who

Were in the city this week ministers discussed new measures to respond to Farmers complaints about loss of income although they have already obtained concessions such as the relaxation of some administrative and environmental rules in fact farmers are a driving force against the nature restoration law which was on the agenda of another

Meeting of environment ministers one of them passionately explained that nature and agriculture are two sides of the same Co protecting the nature restoration law is the one of the best ways of getting income to our Farmers a green climate Farm or carbon farming where we get real transparent monitoring

Of what’s happening in our natural systems is what we need and then to pay our Farmers for their real skill in protecting nature as well as providing food let’s start with that not abandoning nature restoration as seems to be some people seem to be discussing today underscoring how the farmers

Protests have a profound influence on Politics the vote on the nature restoration law scheduled for that meeting of ministers was postponed and there is no new date under the plan member states would have to restore at least 20% of the Union’s degraded land and C areas by 2030 this is an important

Part of the European green deal which seeks to set the world’s most ambitious climate and biodiversity targets to discuss how to break out of these impacts I interviewed for Bas defos director of Nature Health and environment at European environment Bureau the nature restoration law was presented by the European commission as

Crucial to preserving biodiversity combating climate change and achieving food security How likely it is that it will be adopted with rules that are effective the EU is the continent that is warming the fastest and that climate risks are threatening it energy food security ecosystems now it is important

To stress that there was a deal on the table that there were months of negotiations between the council and the European Parliament what happened uh uh unfortunately was that at the very last minute uh Hungary um decided to change its position and therefore there was no

Majority for the deal anymore now it is important to say that it is not dead and that in the coming weeks we very much hope that a majority will be found so farmers and Foresters complain that the law will reduce their productivity but some politicians and scientists have

Said that they could also receive money from the common agriculture policy to play a new role in nature preservation would this be a viable solution well nature restoration is a necessity for the resilience of Fire farming as well farming depends on nature we should not oppose Agriculture and environment this

Is definitely wrong the cap is uh you know more than 30% of the EU budget already it’s over 55 billions of Euros that are spent annually in the farm sector taxpayers money the problem with the common agricultural policy today is that it is not a tool for the transition

And that 80% of that 30% of the EU budget goes to 20 % of the beneficiaries and not necessarily the ones who need it the most and not necessarily the ones who are forming with nature as we speak now so on another aspect this law could also play a role in increasing the

Natural mechanisms for absorbing the polluting gases uh the environment ministers analyzed the European commission’s new proposal to reduce these gases by 90% by 2040 in comparison with the 1990 levels do you think it will be accepted by European Union governments the problem already with that uh communication was that while it

Was clear that there there was a need for having a specific Target for agriculture 30% for agriculture this was not in the proposal eventually or in the communication of um the the commission so we can already start wondering whether or not we will manage to reach that 90% without having a specific Focus

Also on agriculture where efforts are need it so we very much hope that they will they will accept and they will show their support to it and if we want to reach climate neutrality by 2050 we need to reduce you know to follow that uh 90% reduction by 2040 for bases thank you

Very much for your contributions to the program thank you and now let’s talk about consumer rights and big technology companies one of the objectives of the digital markets Act which came into force in March is to prevent consumers from being tied to products or service of a single company

The ACT will be put to the test with the first investigations into Apple Google and meta the European commission announced this week that it will inquire into suspicious of various restrictions and limitations on the part of these three companies known as Gatekeepers who could face fines of up to 10% of their

Global turnover we will continue to use all available tool should any gatekeeper try to circumvent or to undermine the obligations of the dma it’s important for us to achieve the objectives of the dma such that consumers have the benefits of open contestable markets a market will competition and now a reminder not to

Forget the supplies to celebrate Easter Sunday on the last day of March chocolate is often offered in very specific formats eggs and bunnies there are many options on the market but be aware that the price of some popular brands has increased by more than 50% compared to last year prices have soared

As climate change has affected cocoa crops in West Africa where about three qus of the world’s cocoa beans are produced therefore chocolate this year may taste slightly bitter this holiday this concludes our Edition thank you for watching