Kristine De Schamphelaere
@kristineds.bsky.social
Policy Officer Agriculture, PAN Europe
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No future for sustainable farming in #CAP. @EU_Parliament vote just wiped out environmental provisions. Reckless deregulation directs taxpayers money to Big Agri, funding #pesticide-intensive and other harmful practices. Farmers health and the environment suffer.
December 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
No future for sustainable farming in #CAP. @EU_Parliament vote just wiped out environmental provisions. Reckless deregulation directs taxpayers money to Big Agri, funding #pesticide-intensive and other harmful practices. Farmers health and the environment suffer.
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🪱🍎 Happy #WorldSoilDay 🥕🐞
Let's celebrate #soils & all farmers phasing out #pesticides to protect them. Soils, the foundation of our subsistence, host an incredible amount of life. Yet, they are degrading fast, with pesticides a major cause.
Dig in: www.pan-europe.info/blog/let%E2%...
Let's celebrate #soils & all farmers phasing out #pesticides to protect them. Soils, the foundation of our subsistence, host an incredible amount of life. Yet, they are degrading fast, with pesticides a major cause.
Dig in: www.pan-europe.info/blog/let%E2%...
Let’s celebrate World Soil Day: Protect soils against pesticides!
Today is World Soil Day. That is important, given the fact that soils have been, for a long time, largely overlooked. The official World Water Day has been celebrated since 1993. The first official Wo...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🪱🍎 Happy #WorldSoilDay 🥕🐞
Let's celebrate #soils & all farmers phasing out #pesticides to protect them. Soils, the foundation of our subsistence, host an incredible amount of life. Yet, they are degrading fast, with pesticides a major cause.
Dig in: www.pan-europe.info/blog/let%E2%...
Let's celebrate #soils & all farmers phasing out #pesticides to protect them. Soils, the foundation of our subsistence, host an incredible amount of life. Yet, they are degrading fast, with pesticides a major cause.
Dig in: www.pan-europe.info/blog/let%E2%...
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Together with 33 organisations of the @eufpc.bsky.social, we ask policy makers #AGRIFISH, to #MakeCAPWork for farmers, citizens, nature and climate. Let’s end harmful subsidies and support farming beyond #pesticides: www.pan-europe.info/resources/le...
November 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Together with 33 organisations of the @eufpc.bsky.social, we ask policy makers #AGRIFISH, to #MakeCAPWork for farmers, citizens, nature and climate. Let’s end harmful subsidies and support farming beyond #pesticides: www.pan-europe.info/resources/le...
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📣📨 138 organisations urge @ec.europa.eu - in the context of the simplification omnibus on Food and Feed Safety - to boost ambition and protect citizens and the environment from harmful #pesticides 👶🥕🍏🐝🐦🦋💧
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130+ organisations urge von der Leyen to strengthen enforcement of EU pesticide law
138 civil society, scientific, water, and farming organisations across Europe have called on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to fully enforce the EU Pesticide legislation. The open ...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
📣📨 138 organisations urge @ec.europa.eu - in the context of the simplification omnibus on Food and Feed Safety - to boost ambition and protect citizens and the environment from harmful #pesticides 👶🥕🍏🐝🐦🦋💧
👉 www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
👉 www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
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📢 Today, EU lawmakers listened to citizens and science and rubber-stamped the deal on the Soil Monitoring Law, the EU’s first-ever law on soil health, after months of negotiations 🪱
@eeb.org @ecos.ngo
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@eeb.org @ecos.ngo
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European Parliament seals the deal of first-ever EU law on soils
Today, EU lawmakers listened to citizens and science and rubber-stamped the deal on the Soil Monitoring Law, the EU’s first-ever law on soil health, after months of negotiations. Despite severe shortc...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
📢 Today, EU lawmakers listened to citizens and science and rubber-stamped the deal on the Soil Monitoring Law, the EU’s first-ever law on soil health, after months of negotiations 🪱
@eeb.org @ecos.ngo
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@eeb.org @ecos.ngo
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🪱🌱🥕 Ahead of the plenary vote, we urge MEPs to officially endorse the law. Given the dire state of our soils, an EU policy framework as common ground to protect them is urgently needed. Healthy, living soils are the basis of all life.
October 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
🪱🌱🥕 Ahead of the plenary vote, we urge MEPs to officially endorse the law. Given the dire state of our soils, an EU policy framework as common ground to protect them is urgently needed. Healthy, living soils are the basis of all life.
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🧑🌾While the @ec.europa.eu moves to weaken #pesticide rules, farmers across Europe are proving other ways are possible, producing healthy food without harming people or nature🌾
This #WorldFoodDay, see the real solutions in our new report with @foeeurope.bsky.social: www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
This #WorldFoodDay, see the real solutions in our new report with @foeeurope.bsky.social: www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
New Report: Farming beyond Pesticides - Success Stories from the Field to celebrate World Food Day
Today, on World Food Day, PAN Europe and Friends of the Earth Europe publish a new report, showcasing farmers and municipalities successfully eliminating or minimising pesticide use. The impressive an...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
🧑🌾While the @ec.europa.eu moves to weaken #pesticide rules, farmers across Europe are proving other ways are possible, producing healthy food without harming people or nature🌾
This #WorldFoodDay, see the real solutions in our new report with @foeeurope.bsky.social: www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
This #WorldFoodDay, see the real solutions in our new report with @foeeurope.bsky.social: www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
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#Soils host an immense amount of biodiversity 🪱🐝 and functions 💧🥕🌱. They are the basis of all life, and essential to our well-being. As they are degrading fast, due to #pesticide pollution and many other impacts, an #EUSoilLaw is long overdue.
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www.pan-europe.info/resources/le...
October 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
#Soils host an immense amount of biodiversity 🪱🐝 and functions 💧🥕🌱. They are the basis of all life, and essential to our well-being. As they are degrading fast, due to #pesticide pollution and many other impacts, an #EUSoilLaw is long overdue.
www.pan-europe.info/resources/le...
www.pan-europe.info/resources/le...
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📣🪱 Tomorrow the ENVI Committe votes on the #SoilLaw. As a compromise text was reached among @europarl.europa.eu @eucouncil.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu after months of debate and concessions, this should be a formality. The vote should bring us a step closer to healthier soils in Europe.
June 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
📣🪱 Tomorrow the ENVI Committe votes on the #SoilLaw. As a compromise text was reached among @europarl.europa.eu @eucouncil.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu after months of debate and concessions, this should be a formality. The vote should bring us a step closer to healthier soils in Europe.
#Pesticiden zijn overal, en hebben een destructieve impact op milieu, biodiversiteit en gezondheid🌺🐝🦉🪱🥕👨👩👧🫗. Belgische gezondheids-, milieu en natuur organisaties vragen minister Frank Vandenbroucke om zijn stem te laten horen bij beslissingen rond pesticiden.
May 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
#Pesticiden zijn overal, en hebben een destructieve impact op milieu, biodiversiteit en gezondheid🌺🐝🦉🪱🥕👨👩👧🫗. Belgische gezondheids-, milieu en natuur organisaties vragen minister Frank Vandenbroucke om zijn stem te laten horen bij beslissingen rond pesticiden.
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🐝 #BeeDay - Did you know that 70% of bees nest in the ground? Yet soils are under major threats.
Interested in providing feedback/suggestions to the draft roadmap on soil pollution of the Soils For Europe project? Your comments and feedback are welcome!
soils4europe.eu/roadmaps
Interested in providing feedback/suggestions to the draft roadmap on soil pollution of the Soils For Europe project? Your comments and feedback are welcome!
soils4europe.eu/roadmaps
May 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🐝 #BeeDay - Did you know that 70% of bees nest in the ground? Yet soils are under major threats.
Interested in providing feedback/suggestions to the draft roadmap on soil pollution of the Soils For Europe project? Your comments and feedback are welcome!
soils4europe.eu/roadmaps
Interested in providing feedback/suggestions to the draft roadmap on soil pollution of the Soils For Europe project? Your comments and feedback are welcome!
soils4europe.eu/roadmaps
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Today, 🇪🇺 agri & food policies are again at a crossroads.
As delegates meet at 'Conference on the Vision for Agriculture and Food', find out how the optimistic, balanced, & widely accepted proposals of #StrategicDialogue are now lost in 'simplification’.
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/05/n...
As delegates meet at 'Conference on the Vision for Agriculture and Food', find out how the optimistic, balanced, & widely accepted proposals of #StrategicDialogue are now lost in 'simplification’.
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/05/n...
May 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Today, 🇪🇺 agri & food policies are again at a crossroads.
As delegates meet at 'Conference on the Vision for Agriculture and Food', find out how the optimistic, balanced, & widely accepted proposals of #StrategicDialogue are now lost in 'simplification’.
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/05/n...
As delegates meet at 'Conference on the Vision for Agriculture and Food', find out how the optimistic, balanced, & widely accepted proposals of #StrategicDialogue are now lost in 'simplification’.
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/05/n...
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🪱 The EU has the intention to protect soils with the Soil Monitoring Law. Watch these interviews with MEPs @martinhaeusling.bsky.social and @martinhojsik.bsky.social.
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April 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
🪱 The EU has the intention to protect soils with the Soil Monitoring Law. Watch these interviews with MEPs @martinhaeusling.bsky.social and @martinhojsik.bsky.social.
soils4europe.eu/news/solo-in...
soils4europe.eu/news/solo-in...
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🚨🍷🧵 Alarming levels of #TFA and PFAS pesticides, forever chemicals, found in wine. New study examining aged and young #wines reveals the dramatic increase over time. TFA is a breakdown product of #PFAS #pesticides and F-gases.
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
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April 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
🚨🍷🧵 Alarming levels of #TFA and PFAS pesticides, forever chemicals, found in wine. New study examining aged and young #wines reveals the dramatic increase over time. TFA is a breakdown product of #PFAS #pesticides and F-gases.
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
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🪱 The @europarl.europa.eu @consilium.europa.eu & @ec.europa.eu reached an agreement on a #SoilLaw. Although, as the first-ever EU soil legislative framework, the deal is historic and long overdue, its ambition is appallingly weak.
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A weak deal for Europe’s soils
At 4:30 on Thursday morning, EU institutions reached a provisional agreement on the long-awaited, and first-ever, EU legislative framework for soils: the Soil Monitoring Law. However, the deal falls ...
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April 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
🪱 The @europarl.europa.eu @consilium.europa.eu & @ec.europa.eu reached an agreement on a #SoilLaw. Although, as the first-ever EU soil legislative framework, the deal is historic and long overdue, its ambition is appallingly weak.
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
Reposted by Kristine De Schamphelaere
🪱 Tonight, the European Parliament, Commission and Council might reach a deal on a, long overdue, #SoilLaw. We call on the EU to agree on a law fit-for-purpose to protect and restore soils!
www.pan-europe.info/resources/le...
www.pan-europe.info/resources/le...
April 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🪱 Tonight, the European Parliament, Commission and Council might reach a deal on a, long overdue, #SoilLaw. We call on the EU to agree on a law fit-for-purpose to protect and restore soils!
www.pan-europe.info/resources/le...
www.pan-europe.info/resources/le...
Reposted by Kristine De Schamphelaere
Samen met @paneurope.bsky.social en enkele van onze partners uit Afrika voeren we actie en hekelen de dubbele standaard van @ec.europa.eu inzake giftige pesticiden. We vragen uitdrukkelijk een exportverbod. #StopHetVergif #SamenOogstenWeSucces
March 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Samen met @paneurope.bsky.social en enkele van onze partners uit Afrika voeren we actie en hekelen de dubbele standaard van @ec.europa.eu inzake giftige pesticiden. We vragen uitdrukkelijk een exportverbod. #StopHetVergif #SamenOogstenWeSucces