Agrifood Brief: Comi-what-ogy? on 13/10/23
Each month, hundreds of technical processes slip quietly under the radar, decided behind closed doors committee meetings in a process shrouded in mystery known as comitology. Glyphosate’s fate still hanging after inconclusive EU vote on 13/10/23
EU countries did not meet the required qualified majority to approve the European Commission's proposed 10-year extension for the use of the contentious herbicide glyphosate, with the next crucial vote to be held in the first half of November. Germany readies to make shooting wolves easier on 12/10/23
To cool down the “overheated” debate on the protection of wolves, Germany’s Green Environment Minister Steffi Lemke has presented a proposal to make the shooting of wolves that killed livestock easier within existing EU law. ‘Dear Ursula’: EU Commission chief invited to visit Nordic forests ahead of election year on 12/10/23
In a show of diplomatic strength, the prime ministers of Sweden and Finland have invited EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen to visit their country's forests and refrain from overburdening the sector ahead of an election year. Glyphosate renewal: A ’round-up’ of how EU countries plan to vote on 12/10/23
The European Commission has proposed to renew the approval of the contentious herbicide glyphosate for the next decade, but only if member states give their green light. So where do they sit on the issue? Food safety standards ‘cannot be part of politics’, top Ukraine official says on 11/10/23
Ukraine has an effective control system on food safety and pesticides which should not be dragged into political squabbles about grain exports, Olha Shevchenko, acting head of Ukraine’s food safety body, told Euractiv in an interview. Tie farming subsidies to performance, OECD tells EU on 10/10/23
Despite high ambitions to make farming greener, progress in the EU sustainable agriculture is stalling, according to a new Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which calls to tie the bloc’s extensive farming subsidies more strongly to measurable outcomes. Agrifood Brief: The best thing that could ever CAP-pen on 06/10/23
Forget prophecies of empty coffers and huge cuts for founding members: Ukraine’s EU accession is the best thing that could ever happen to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Ukraine’s EU membership will trigger a rewriting of CAP, says Kyiv official on 06/10/23
Evaluating the impact of Ukraine's accession on the EU's farming subsidies under the current criteria is not a relevant exercise as Kyiv's EU membership will likely lead to the end of the Common Agricultural Policy as we know it today, according to Ukraine's Deputy Economy Minister Taras Kachka. New study questions accuracy of EU’s biofuel impact assessments on 06/10/23
Skewed data was used to determine the impact of the EU's renewable energy directive, a scientific paper has claimed, raising questions about the model and process employed by the European Commission to assess policy options for transport decarbonisation.
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