Will the EU achieve its green farming ambitions before the 2024 elections? on 21/08/23
With the European elections around the corner, it is crunch time for determining the legacy of the Green Deal for agriculture and food policy, as lawmakers scramble to rescue the climate-protecting credentials of this legislative mandate. Beef over ‘veggie burger’ name to be settled by EU court ruling on 18/08/23
A forthcoming ruling by the EU top court should clarify the use of names linked with foodstuffs of animal origin for plant-based food products, according to meat alternatives campaigners. Russia strikes Ukraine’s Danube port, sending global grain prices higher on 02/08/23
Russia attacked Ukraine's grain ports in the early hours of Wednesday (2 August), including an inland port across the Danube River from Romania, sending global food prices soaring as Moscow ramps up its use of force to reimpose a blockade of Ukrainian exports. Germany develops taste for alcohol-free beer on 01/08/23
The production of non-alcoholic beer in Germany almost doubled over the last decade, according to new data published on the occasion of this week’s world beer day, while alcoholic beer consumption has seen a slight downward trend. CAP tracker: Lessons from the ground on 28/07/23
As the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy is being implemented on the ground, we can start drawing lessons from practical successes and challenges for the future of the bloc’s farm subsidies. As of January 2023, we experienced for the first time... Agrifood Special CAPitals Brief: Nature based solutions on 28/07/23
As inter-institutional negotiations get underway on the EU’s contentious nature restoration law, EURACTIV’s network took a look at how farmers across 10 member states are implementing nature-based solutions in agriculture. FAO official: EU shouldn’t sacrifice food output in sustainability’s name on 28/07/23
Sacrificing the EU’s agriculture productivity on the altar of its sustainable farming ambitions risks creating tensions on the global stage as the rest of the world cannot compensate for a reduction in the bloc’s output, according to a United Nations (UN) expert. Germany gives up on EU-wide meat labelling regulation, tables national one on 27/07/23
The German government has adopted a regulation extending the scope of the country’s mandatory origin label for meat after agriculture minister Cem Özdemir said the European Commission did not deliver on its promise for an EU-level proposal. Germany aims to tweak CAP plan as green measures fall through on 27/07/23
Germany's federal states have agreed on proposals to improve the catalogue of eco-schemes, a new instrument under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to reward sustainable farming practices, whose take-up has so far been lower than hoped. French minister blasts NGOs’ ‘permanent spirit of demolition’ on EU farming subsidies on 27/07/23
NGOs are suing the European Commission for having approved France's national plan for implementing the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) despite allegedly breaching EU law - a move that French Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau calls a "destructive battle".
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