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Strategic dialogue: If a good beginning bodes well…on 19/01/24 Last week we reported on the EU bubble agri-food sector's long wait (and need) for the launch of a complex and overdue Strategic Dialogue with the EU institutions. The announcement came yesterday.
Austria, France and Italy lead charge against lab-grown meaton 19/01/24 Vienna, Paris and Rome, along with nine other EU countries, are set to argue that meat grown in a laboratory is a threat to "genuine food production methods", a claim a diplomatic source told Euractiv is "exaggerated and premature".
EU Parliament calls for looser environmental rules in Common Fisheries Policy reformon 19/01/24 The European Parliament voted on Thursday (18 January) in favour of two own-initiative reports on EU fisheries pushed by the conservative EPP, which drop some environmental bans and focus on fleet competitiveness, effectively calling for a reform of the bloc's Common Fisheries Policy.
New wave of farmer protests loom as German government refuses to budgeon 19/01/24 Germany's ruling coalition refused to back down in its political showdown with protesting farmers, deciding late on Thursday to stick to its plans to cut farm subsidies, opening the floodgates to an unprecedented "eruption" of new protests.
Von der Leyen will start strategic dialogue with food sector on 25 Januaryon 18/01/24 Thirty European food chain organisations covering the entire chain have received an official invitation for a strategic dialogue with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on 25 January, industry sources told Euractiv.
Think tank launches handbook to ‘depolarise’ EU debate on food and agricultureon 18/01/24 Re-Imagine Europa think tank (RIE) has launched a booklet with tips for navigating polarised conversations on the highly contentious topic of the new rules on plants’ gene editing, which is due to be voted on by the Parliament's environment committee on 24 January.
French agrarian party chief wants a ‘rural group’ in next EU Parliamenton 17/01/24 The leader of the recently-founded "Alliance Rurale" party in France, Willy Schraen, told Euractiv in an interview that if he is elected as an MEP, he aims to create a 'rural affairs' group in the EU House with like-minded lawmakers.
European Parliament heads for tight vote on plant gene editingon 16/01/24 With the European Parliament's Environment Committee (ENVI) set to vote on new genomic techniques (NGTs) on 24 January, the dossier is becoming increasingly divisive, with the right-wing groups aligning to push it through - and the left remaining split.
Unlike farmers, EU sugar-using industry wants more imports from Ukraineon 16/01/24 The EU needs “more and not less” supply from Kyiv, according to sugar-using food producers - a statement contradicting the demands of sugar beet growers, while Romanian farmers are blocking the borders in protest at the growing Ukrainian agricultural imports.
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