Mick Wallace @wallacemick@respublicae.eu

There's much talk in the #EU about #Georgia, about what the people want or don't want. An amazing experience to come here and see for ourselves, to listen to the people and try understand who they are and what's happening here...

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Nature Restoration Law is not about Farmers V Nature, it's about helping Farmers to work with Nature, to help keep Farmers on the land, about a healthy future for all - In conversation with Radio Kerry's Jerry O Sullivan. Politicians must stop the lies...
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5ys5SWljnOQyFZg7h8NSh7?si=qE0CiuvFRQy4hBsKISKKxQ

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EU has nobody to blame for #Belarus heading to Russian camp but itself - When are we going to wake up to Geopolitical games of #US Empire and #NATO ...? Any chance that Peace will become a priority for the #EU again..? The people want Peace but our stupid Politicians want War...
RT @JosepBorrellF: The European Union condemns the agreement by Russia and Belarus to allow the deployment of Russian nuclear warheads on the Belarusian territory. 

This is a step which …

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Seldom has one group of players been ingrained into the psyche of a people as has happened with Grande Torino and the people of #Torino ....
RT @torostory: Stagione '71-'72 https://t.co/PmlLO2fqEa

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Hard to get used to fact that the destructive War Machine better known as #NATO is based in Brussels - But given the rapidly increasing Militarisation of #EU, maybe it's starting to fit. NATO is responsible for the destruction of millions of lives but are never held to account...

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Part 2 - We undermined EU relations with #Belarus by jumping on board with Regime Change agenda - Sadly the embattled Lukashenko has used repressive tactics against protesters, Union Leaders +Political opposition -We are calling on Belarus Gov to release REP Union leaders now..

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The #EU used to have good relations with #Belarus but Western Powers have driven the country into the Arms of Russia. The reckless expansion Eastwards by #NATO hasn't helped - And neither has our support for the fictional leader Tsikhanouskaya....

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There is also a vast amount of domestic peat extraction land in Ireland. The 2015 Irish Peatland Strategy suggests its a massive 612k. This could also be a possible option to contribute to the agricultural target, if some such land holders were incentivised to rewet.

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The Nature Restoration Law is in danger of being rejected. That would be a disaster. U can see clearly from the figures above there is no reason for Irish MEPs to vote against it based on peatland rewetting targets.

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Irish media need to accurately report this. For the good of farmers and for the survival of this incredibly important piece of legislation @drivetimerte, @IrishTimes, @rtenews, @codohertynews, @SiCarswell @PatKennyNT @TodaywithClaire@, @AgrilandIreland, @farmersjournal

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EU Parliament current draft target would set Ireland a 2050 rewetting target of 153k hectares. I am the @Left_EU shadow rapporteur for the Nature Restoration Law. I know for a fact that this 153k target will not survive, my staff and are part of the negotiations.

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The Council position would give Ireland a lesser target. Ireland argued for weaker target at Council (@greenparty_ie government minister allowed this to happened). Council target would mean a 2050 rewetting target for Ireland of 83k hectares, which Bord na Mona alone could meet

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Why are @markey, @BillyKelleherEU, @LeoVaradkar and others scaremongering about Ireland's rewetting targets? Have they not read the text or do they not understand it? Would there be an EU election on the way?

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Coillte have committed to rewet 30k hectares by 2050. 79k from Bord na Mona and another 30k from Coillte EXCEEDS Ireland's agricultural target of 116k for 2050.

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Bord na Mona have committed to rewetting 79k hectares. In Art 9.4 paragraph 2 of NRL proposal there is no limit on the amount of peat extraction sites that can contribute to agriculture target.

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Read the words on the page and look at Commission impact assessment, p480. Ireland 's 2050 rewetting target is 116k hectares (ie half of 70% or 35% of total drained peatlands under agriculture, or 332k hectares). Let's end the disinformation and stop scaring farmers.
RT @drivetimerte: Today:

@AnneRabbitte on delayed assessments for children with learning difficulties

@HollyCairnsTD on abortion review, asylum seekers and growing @SocDems

🧑‍🌾Is rewetting farmla…

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As the #EU grows more Authoritarian and the space for Freedom of Speech diminishes, the term 'Whataboutism' has become 'a propagandistic term to dismiss any comparison between the virtuous "us" and the wicked "other"....
RT @Glenn_Diesen: This is the price of throwing away press freedom and freedom of speech in the West. Efforts to lecture the rest of the world are now interpreted as mere hypocrisy and ideological sloganeering.
"Whataboutism" is a propagandistic t…

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School scheme for promotion of good eating habits is a great idea but there's disparities with the implementation of scheme as only 16 out 76 million students in #EU were targeted by the scheme in the last 6 years, mostly due to budget issues - refusing to fund this is Madness...

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Every country engages in Disinformation. Western Powers love to accuse others of it but refuse to acknowledge that the same Western Powers could give lessons to everyone else when it comes to the art of Disinformation -The Chinese and Russians aren't even good at it...
RT @Glenn_Diesen: The anti-China propaganda has gone too far.
All countries use propaganda to some extent, but this is insane coverage of China's BRI infrastructure projects.

"Those who can make y…

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How sad that we now have an Irish Government that is more in tune with the #US #NATO Proxy War in Ukraine + Military Industrial Complex, than it is with its own people - 87% of the people want Peace but the Gov and Mainstream Media continue to promote this stupid War. 87%...????
RT @ClareDalyMEP: A whopping 87% of Irish people favour peace negotiations in Ukraine, according to an @IpsosIreland Omnipoll commissioned by @PANAIreland.

While the government aligns us …

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