An unusual political creature celebrates twenty years of cooperation between a wide range of committed government officials, ...

The Polish Rural Parliament launched earlier this month, holding its inaugural gathering at the European Congress on Rural ...

The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is once again being trimmed down to size, with the Commission reaching for the ...

Leaner but not greener with a new era of flexibility and power to member states – these are some of the changes on the menu for the EU’s new plan to simplify the Common Agricultural Policy, according ...

In advance of the first trilogue meeting on “new genomic techniques” that took place this week, the industry launched a statement against GMO labelling. Only the Parliament, not the Council nor the ...

Pesticides deemed too toxic for Europe are still being produced here and sold abroad to be sprayed on fields where farm workers live, work, and raise their children – but these are also fields that ...

The EU has unveiled its new Vision for Agriculture and Food which, despite the name, is not exactly what you would call ‘visionary’. So what does the EU’s new agricultural game plan envisage – or not ...

A new proposal on the EU’s plans to loosen the rules on new genomic technologies has been tabled in efforts to break the impasse in negotiations between EU countries. But could this be enough to tip ...

The EU powers-that-be are currently in the midst of big talks on the EU’s €1.2 billion budget, known in EU-speak as the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). And as usual, where there’s big bucks, ...

A new study from the Greenpeace European Unit – Go Big or go Bust shows just how rapidly farming in Europe is going in a particular trajectory. Simply put, small farm are disappearing, and large farms ...