Dr Jo Swabe 🌱

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🌍Senior Director of Public Affairs at Humane Society International/Europe
🐇Professional bunnyhugger & EU policy wonk
🤓Erstwhile sociologist & anthrozoologist
🦉Nature lover, bird nerd & vegan
🇳🇱Dutch citizen, Ex-Brit
📣Over-opinionated, but all opinions are very much my own
Organisation websitewww.hsieurope.org
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On the basis of a leaked draft, @politico-europe-POLITICOEurope is reporting that the @EUCommission will propose ‘welfare standards’ for fur farmed animals, rather than introduce a ban.

This decision completely flies in the face of #animalwelfare science and public opinion. Remember that 1.5 million citizens signed the #FurFreeEurope #ECI demanding a ban on fur farming.

https://www.politico.eu/article/commission-draft-rejects-eu-wide-fur-farming-ban/

EU to reject fur-farming ban despite enormous petition

Citizens petitioned for a ban, but Animal Welfare Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi is poised to opt for tougher standards, per a draft seen by POLITICO.

POLITICO
@raphaelweyland en route to Berlin right now…
@jon signal repairs, apparently…

@jon no idea. It is the sheer lack of information & communication with passengers that is pissing me off the most.

And losing another huge chunk out of my day, after it already took 9 hours to get from Amsterdam to Hannover yesterday.

This trip reminds me why I always travel to Strasbourg via Paris & not via Germany. DB is just too unreliable.

@jon cheers, Jon. I booked with NS, so I guess they’ll have to sort it.

It is 10:15 & my 9:22 train from Hannover to Berlin still hasn’t left, so my patience with DB has long expired…

Hey @jon, what’s the most effective way to complain to Deutsche Bahn?

Spent past 9 hours on nightmare journey to Berlin & won’t make it further than Hannover tonight. Direct 15.59 train from A’dam was cancelled with no customer notification. Then sent from pillar to post, even involving cross-border replacement bus that turned up 30 mins late with all its knock-on consequences…

Any advice re. compensation? Lost hotel night Berlin & unplanned night in Hannover.

REFIT & Reseal: Why the EU must uphold the ban on trade in seal products.

An OpEd from yours truly reminding policymakers that the trade in the cruel products of the commercial sealing industry was banned in 2009 due to public moral concerns about #animalwelfare

#wildlife #trade #EUpolicy #animalprotection #seals

https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/opinion/refit-and-reseal-why-the-eu-must-uphold-the-ban-on-trade-in-seal-products/

REFIT and Reseal: Why the EU Must Uphold the Ban on Trade in Seal Products

It is fitting that the European Commission periodically reviews legislation to ensure that it is still deliver

EURACTIV
BREAKING: Nature restoration law fails to secure support at critical member states meeting

Hungary’s last minute decision to withdraw support for the proposal means that the law’s future is uncerta

EURACTIV
The farming lobby vs Europe's wolves

Over the past few years, farming and hunting organisations have waged an unrelenting vendetta against the wolf, culminating in the European Commission's 180-degree policy U-turn, writes the director of the Humane Society International for Europe.

EUobserver

Enjoying the wonderful #wildlife of #Estonia.

#bears #raccoondog #nature #europe