What is better than bending the rules? Writing them 🤓 What is EU policy, and how is it made? And most importantly, how can you influence policymaking on the issues that matter to you? We created two tools to help you step into the EU policy cycle ✨ 🇪🇺 A crash course on “How is EU Policy Made” takes you through the key steps in the creation of EU-level rules and regulations. 🔍 And a “Policy Finder” to help you find details about EU policies on issues that matter to you. Find links to both tools in the bio. #YouthPolicyAcademy

The world feels really heavy right now, but we can’t turn away. Doing something is the best way to feel a bit better about the current situation. The genocide in Gaza continues, and the EU’s complicity must end. Join us in signing the European Citizen Initiative to stop EU complicity with Israel. Link in bio. #JusticeForPalestine

⚠️Mancozeb. Fipronil. Glufosinate… these pesticides are banned in Europe for a reason: they are too toxic for people and nature. Yet EU-based companies are still allowed to export them to countries with weaker protections - poisoning farmers, contaminating water and ecosystems, and violating human rights around the world. To expose this toxic double standard, communities across the world coordinated symbolic actions. Civil society and farmer organisations from 13 countries in 5 different continents recorded themselves packing bottles of these EU-banned pesticides into boxes destined to the European Commission. In 2020, the European Commission pledged to end this practice. Five years later, that promise has not been fulfilled #returntosender #bantoxicexports

Deregulation gamified! 🎮 Clean air, healthy soil, and safe working conditions should not be pawns in a game and yet that is exactly what is happening in the dirty game that is being played by big biz. Rather than investing in a thriving and liveable future for Europe, decisionmakers are playing with fire by putting all their cards in the hands of companies whose business is killing nature, poisoning our soil, sucking the life out of air and putting human health in jeopardy. Watch and share the video to learn more… #Deregulator #RulesToProtect

Last week, Abigail Hartshorn, steering group member of Young Friends of the Earth Europe, delivered a short intervention during the 11th session of the UN negotiations for a Legally Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights. Her statement focused on the need to avoid reservations within the treaty, because allowing them would let states ratify the agreement without fully implementing it, leaving space for corporate impunity, human rights violations, and environmental destruction. Strong, enforceable commitments are essential if we want justice for communities and the planet, not just words on paper. A big thank you to the Global Campaign @stop_tnc_impunity for all the support and collective strength throughout this process. 💚 #BindingTreaty #StopCorporateImpunity #LifeOverProfit #CorporateLobby

Raise your voice for safe food & nature free from toxics! The EU Commission wants to roll back vital food safety protections. We’ve 7 days to speak up. Tell them the protection of our food, soil & water from toxics is a necessity. Tell them: #ProtectMyPlate 👉 link in bio

We stand in solidarity with the activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla. Do you not have a boat, but want to take action against this genocide? Hit the streets and join a local protest. Or call your national ministery of foreign affairs to demand an immediate release of the activists from your country aboard of the Sumud Flotilla. You can find the phone numbers per country and more information on how to help on the website of @globalsumudflotilla #gaza #freepalestine #sumud #flotilla #protest

When profit comes before people and planet, we all suffer. That’s why we’re marching from Maastricht to Brussels, to demand fairness, justice, and real accountability. The EU must serve the public good, not private interests. 👉 Read our full position paper on our website to learn why we say #StopDeregulation and join us in telling @vonderleyen and the @EU_Commission to rethink their agenda. #BackToTheFuture #March4Rights #HoldBizAccountable

The European Commission is weakening climate legislation and the protection of workers rights. That is unacceptable! ❌️ That us why we, young people, will be loud 📣 #csddd #omnibus #europe #commission #climate #politics