Agrifood Special CAPitals: Advisory Services on 24/11/23
Welcome to Euractiv's Special CAPitals edition of the Agrifood Brief, dedicated to education and training available to farmers across Europe: European Parliament kills off mangled EU pesticide reduction plan on 23/11/23
The European Parliament has outright rejected a proposal on the EU’s pesticide reduction plan, effectively killing off the regulation in a move lamented by green groups but celebrated by EU farmer associations. Primary Food Processors and the EU’s agri-food chain: driving sustainability and food security [Promoted content] on 23/11/23
Primary food processing industries contribute to the EU’s food security and sovereignty. Our sectors play an important role in Europe’s agri-food ecosystem and supply food products and ingredients consumed by millions of EU citizens every day. But we are also facing numerous challenges. Eleven EU countries call for more ‘flexibility’ on CAP’s fallow land rules on 21/11/23
Eleven EU member states, including France, are calling for greater "flexibility" in the previously derogated requirement to leave land fallow under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in a proposal that has left the European Commission perplexed. PETA: EU should phase out animal testing before chemical registration influx on 21/11/23
With global chemical production expected to double by 2030, an increased demand for animal testing to remain compliant with EU rules means a shift towards non-animal approaches becomes even more pressing, according to stakeholders at the European Partnership for Alternative Approaches (EPAA) to Animal Testing conference in Brussels. The Brief – No more free lunch for Europe’s farmers on 21/11/23
Europe's farmers are receiving ever more handouts from politicians, despite their relatively meagre contribution to our economy and increasingly obstinate stance against the EU's efforts to adapt to a changing world. Agrifood Brief: Warning – Will kill weeds and coalitions on 17/11/23
After EU member states failed to reach a majority for or against the re-authorisation of the controversial weedkiller glyphosate, the Commission is now planning to unilaterally authorise it for 10 years. And while there’s still debate over environmental and health... German farmers: Ukraine membership would spell end of EU farming system on 17/11/23
Ukraine joining the European Union in the future would result in the 'death' of the family farm as we know it, according to German Farmers' Union President Joachim Rukwied. EU’s billion-euro bet on fish farming has not paid off, EU auditors warn on 16/11/23
The bloc's investment, worth more than €1 billion in EU funds over seven years, has failed to deliver “tangible results” in the aquaculture sector, according to the European Court of Auditors (ECA). EU urged to do more to build carbon removals market on 15/11/23
Businesses remain sceptical that a new EU certification framework for carbon removals is sufficient to generate a self-sustaining market, arguing Brussels must do more to make removing carbon from the atmosphere financially attractive.
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