This week our Political Affairs Manager Joe Moran speaks with MEP Tilly Metz, President of the Parliamentary Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals and Chair of the Committee of Inquiry on the Protection of Animals during Transport. She filled us in on last month's vote in the European Parliament, how successful she feels the Committ…

With her tenure as President of the Parliamentary Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals coming to a close, we also reflect on Anja’s highlights and successes over the past 2.5 years.By Eurogroup for Animals

With large numbers of animals being sold in online marketplaces in Europe, both animals and consumers are at risk. The Digital Services Act could help tackle this issue through improved regulation of digital markets. We speak with Georgia Diamantopoulou, EU Companion Animal Policy Coordinator at Four Paws, and Maryant Fernandez Perez, a lawyer and …

Steve McIvor, CEO of World Animal Protection, explains the organisation's new strategy to end the wildlife trade, and why international action is needed at the G20 Summit to make this a priority.By Eurogroup for Animals

More than 200 million working animals support the livelihoods of over 600 million people. With Dr Joe Collins from The Donkey Sanctuary, we explore what kind of roles horses, donkeys and other working equines perform in the EU and beyond. From Greece to China, we explore how crucial working equines can be to developing communities and how we can wo…

We speak to Julia Fentern, who has led Unilever’s non-animal science work for more than 20 years. Unilever, along with other major brands such as Dove, The Body Shop and numerous NGOs, are driving this ECI to achieve change for animals used in science.By Eurogroup for Animals

As outlined in the EU Farm to Fork Strategy, there is an urgent need to shift towards more plant-based diets and alternative proteins in Europe in order to improve animal welfare, mitigate climate change and prevent biodiversity loss. We are joined by MEP Francisco Guerreiro to discuss the importance of transforming food systems in the EU, and how …

The End the Cage Age European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI), which launched in September 2018 and gained over 1.6 million signatures, has now become the first successful ECI on farmed animal welfare. We speak with Aleksandra Terzieva, Public Affairs Advisor at Compassion in World Farming EU. CIWF led a coalition of 170 NGOs from across Europe and rall…

Our expert special guest this week is Janneke Aelen from the Aquaculture Stewardship Council, who fills us in on the future of fish welfare research and how we can achieve better protections for fish. Learn more on our website.By Eurogroup for Animals

With Belgium as a case study, we explore how a Positive List for species kept as pets can act as an effective solution to regulate the trade in exotic animals, reducing animal suffering and better protecting public health.By Eurogroup for Animals

With MEP Manuela Ripa, member of the INTA Committee on International Trade, we discuss how Free Trade Agreements can impact animal welfare standards, which trade agreements represent opportunities and threats to welfare and sustainable development, and why the EU-India negotiations are extremely important in influencing their fast growing agricultu…

We discuss the current situation for farmed animals in Europe with MEP Jytte Guteland, who explains how lack of species-specific legislation is allowing millions of animals to fall through the cracks of legislation. To learn more about our demands for the legislation fitness check, view our campaign No Animal Left Behind and sign the petition.…

The European Citizens' Initiative ‘End the Cage Age’, which has received over 1.4 million signatures, received a hearing last week in the European Parliament. The discussion was extremely promising, and we discuss how this ECI could and should move forward with MEP Eleonora Evi.By Eurogroup for Animals

In this episode we are joined by Dr Laura Gribaldo, Scientific Officer at the Joint Research Center of the European Commission. Laura has over 30 years of experience and has been very active in driving the non-animal science agenda.By Eurogroup for Animals

With guest David van Gennep, Executive Director of Animal Advocacy and Protection, we learn more about how Member States are leading the way in banning the use of wild animals in circuses, as well as getting an insight into AAP’s work with rescuing and rehabilitating animals from circuses.By Eurogroup for Animals

We discuss the risks to public health from COVID-19 spreading to mink on fur farms with Bo Algers, Professor Emeritus of Veterinary Medicine. Bo is a signatory of our recent scientific statement, urging the European Commission to take a precautionary approach and suspend mink farming and breeding, backed by a new EFSA report stating all mink are “a…

To celebrate the launch of the World Federation for Animals, this week we will be discussing the exciting new initiative on our Animals in Europe podcast. Our host and CEO Reineke Hameleers will fill us in on how and why the WFA was formed with two of the fellow founding board members, Britta Riis and Wim de Kok. We also get an insight into the goa…

To celebrate the launch of our White Paper on the Transport Regulation revision, our Animals in Europe podcast theme this week is live animal transport. In this latest episode, our host and CEO Reineke Hameleers has a conversation with Maria Boada of member organisation Animal Welfare Foundation. Maria has extensive experience working on the ground…

In the latest episode of our Animals in Europe podcast, our host and CEO Reineke Hameleers has an open conversation with Tilly Metz. Tilly is a Luxembourg MEP for the Greens party and a strong advocate for animals. She is one of the Vice-Presidents and an active member of the Animal Welfare Intergroup and has been recently been appointed as the cha…

In this episode, our host and CEO of Eurogroup for Animals Reineke Hameleers has an open conversation with Ruud Zanders. Ruud is chairman of the Caring Farmers, an organization by and for farmers working on a different and more responsible food system.By Eurogroup for Animals