Simplification Promised, Uncertainty Delivered: How the EU Omnibus Packages Roll Back the Green Deal

“We reject and call for action against the European Green Pact.” These were the statements of the President of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, announcing his agreement on autonomous budgets with Vox in mid-March (min. 15:02). This announcement is part of a series of movements that oppose European measures to protect the environment, many of them based on disinformation and ignorance of the content of the Green Deal. But what does the G…

Luxembourg supports the two "omnibus" packages presented by Ursula von der Leyen on the pretext of simplifying the administrative task of companies in order to boost their competitiveness. However, at the EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council on 11 March, Luxembourg Finance Minister Gilles Roth went further, calling for a further one year's postponement of the entry into force of the Directive on the duty of vigilance (CS3D), obliging multin…

Simplification Promised, Uncertainty Delivered: How the EU Omnibus Packages Roll Back the Green Deal

COMECE assesses EC proposed 'First Omnibus package' - The Catholic Church in the European Union

Illegal deforestation of the Amazon rainforest: trees felled and burned to clear land for agriculture and cattle grazing in Pará, Brazil. (Photo: Shutterstock/Paralaxis) In view of the upcoming inter-institutional negotiations on the ‘First Omnibus package’ proposal published by the European Commission, COMECE presents its assessment and comments in a document issued on Thursday, 20 March 2025, emphasising that the proposed amendments should not…