For the sixth year in a row, Slow Food joined the European Days of Action for Good Food Good Farming, which took place across Europe throughout October. Every year, thousands of citizens and hundreds of organizations host disco soups, farm visits and cooking events; join protests and harvests; and attend panel discussions, film screenings, and many more events in their local communities.  ..read more

Today, European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, delivered her annual State of the Union speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Civil society had been long awaiting this speech, as attacks against the EU Green Deal intensified over the last months with conservative political groups and industry lobbies going on a crusade against any ..read more

On September 14, German environmental groups including Slow Food Germany, Greenpeace, Umweltinstitut München, Eko and Bündnis für eine enkeltaugliche Landwirtschaft, handed over their petition signed by more than 136,125 citizens to their Ministry of Agriculture, asking them to vote against the re-approval of glyphosate at the EU level. In their coalition agreement, the different parties ..read more

Civil society organizations, Slow Food included, wrote an open letter to Ursula von der Leyen, calling for the European Commission’s president to move forward with the publication of an ambitious Sustainable Food Systems Law before the end of its mandate.   The letter was signed by over 160 organisations, and states:   In light of ..read more

Margaux Brochier and Maxime Bonnabry-Duval have always shared a passion for food. Now the couple are transforming their passion into a project by embarking on a year-long journey through Europe to meet sustainable producers and members of the Slow Food network.  This article tells the story of the couple’s journey through Europe, as they meet ..read more

In this article, we tell you all you need to know about what’s coming up in Brussels this Autumn, and what you can do to help us push our politicians to make the right choice.   The European elections are right around the corner (June 2024), putting extra time pressure on EU food and agriculture ..read more

On July 5th, a worrying proposal to deregulate new GMOs (or “new genomic techniques”) in the European Union has been released by the European Commission. This is bad news for our food, biodiversity, farmers and for citizens. Slow Food rejects the Commission’s plans to exempt the majority of new GMOs from existing GMO requirements, which ..read more

In this article, we recall the facts about the current state of animal welfare in Europe, and we present our four policy recommendations to give farmed animals the respect they deserve. European citizens’ ethical and environmental concerns about the industrial exploitation of farmed animals have shed light on the need to update the current EU ..read more

More and more voices are rising across Europe to demand the EU for sustainable, healthy and affordable food. The EU Sustainable Food Systems Law (SFS Law) provides a unique opportunity to achieve this goal, but lobby pressure threatens to derail it. The EU Food Policy Coalition and the Good Food Good Farming movement have been ..read more

Civil society organizations, Slow Food included, wrote an open letter to Ursula von der Leyen, calling for the continuation of the Green Deal. The letter was signed by over 100 organisations, and states: “Ensuring a sustainable future for Europe’s farmers and European food security requires a Common Agricultural Policy that is consistent with the objectives ..read more