On Friday 19 June, MEPs denounced the Bolsonaro government’s policy of land grabbing and massive deforestation, which is intensifying during the Covid-19 pandemic, in defiance of the rights of indigenous peoples and a unique global public good for biodiversity and the fight against climate change.
But they also pointed to the EU’s responsibility, calling on it to “not be complicit” in its agricultural and trade policies, in a debate with the European Commissioner for the...