A new set of measures to help EU farmers affected by the coronavirus pandemic, announced Wednesday by the EU Commission, aims…
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The EU offers few incentives for farmers to reduce their dependency to pesticides, and has been unable to substantially reduce and control risks…
Further reducing use of pesticides, more funds for research and better monitoring are urgently needed to save the EU’s bees, according to…
Image by Jerzy Gorecki from Pixabay (BRUSSELS) – EU institutions provisionally agreed requirements for water reuse in farming Tuesday, setting out minimum water quality requirements for the safe reuse of…
The EU is to allocate over EUR 200 million in order to fund promotional activities for EU agri-food products,…
Photo Pexels (STRASBOURG) – The European Parliament sent an EU regulation to protect bees from harmful pesticides back to the drawing board Wednesday, when MEPs blocked a move by EU…
Photo Jasper Greek Golangco (STRASBOURG) – Fruit, vegetables or animals obtained from conventional breeding processes, such as crossing, must not become patentable, the European Parliament said in a non-legislative resolution…
Photo by Brian Robert Marshall (PARMA) – The European Food Safety Authority, the EU’s food agency, opened a public consultation Tuesday on its pilot assessments of the risks posed to…
Drought (BRUSSELS) – EU Member States agreed Wednesday to a series of support measures to ease financial difficulties faced by farmers due to adverse weather conditions, and increase the availability…
Photo by John Comloquoy (WASHINGTON) – The European Union and the United States signed in Washington D.C. Friday an agreement reviewing the functioning of an existing quota to import hormone-free…
