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Romania’s RFK Jr. is all about good food and helping farmers

Romania’s RFK Jr. is all about good food and helping farmers

Presidential frontrunner Călin Georgescu is trying to capture rural voters with often unorthodox and sometimes fascist tropes.

November 28, 2024 4:11 am CET
Amid existential crisis, US Democrats clash over who to blame – and what to do next
5 takeaways from Christophe Hansen’s farm chief hearing
EU farm ministers reject push to reform CAP spending
Commission’s budget plans endanger the European project, says regions chief
European Commission maps out ‘power grab’ over €1.2T money pot
Waste scandal haunts Cyprus’ EU pick as he heads to Brussels
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Europe’s soil emergency

Amid drought and flood disasters, inaction on restoring soil health is increasingly leaving farmland waterlogged and heat-cracked.

September 27, 2024 6:00 am CET
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Establishing criteria for unmet medical needs: let’s not leave people living with chronic diseases behind

The narrow definition of unmet medical need used in the General Pharmaceutical Legislation may hinder rather than help efforts to find new treatments.

September 25, 2024 5:00 am CET

Why the Kremlin loves social media

This week’s indictment of a social media content firm shows how it’s getting easier and easier for Russia to influence U.S. elections.

September 8, 2024 1:32 pm CET

The Latino vote could decide the US election. Kamala Harris knows it.

The vice president inherited a campaign that was in danger of falling off a cliff with Latino voters.

August 26, 2024 11:47 am CET

Intensive pig farming hogs scarce water in drought-hit Catalonia

Europe’s top pork-producing region is ground zero for intensive systems that devour scarce water and cause nitrate pollution.

April 8, 2024 4:00 am CET

New EU rules to curb deforestation add to farmers’ red tape woes

European farmers say the legislation will saddle them with more obligations that they can ill afford.

April 5, 2024 1:47 pm CET

4 things to know about Washington’s new TikTok crusade 

A new bill would force Beijing-based ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban on U.S. app stores.

March 11, 2024 5:38 pm CET

Patent war looms over Europe’s future supercrops

New rules on gene-edited seeds could pave way for half a dozen big suppliers to strengthen their market domination.

February 6, 2024 9:39 pm CET

30 things Joe Biden did as president you might have missed

Drone armies, expanded overtime pay and over-the-counter birth control pills are just some of the new things Biden has ushered in as president that you might not have heard about.

February 4, 2024 1:21 pm CET

Fires and a toppled statue: Farmers clash with police by EU Parliament

Flemish farmers drink morning beers on Place du Luxembourg as food producers rage about green tape from Brussels.

February 1, 2024 12:27 pm CET

Low-speed zone: Europe’s super crops revolution hits bottleneck

Brussels’ bid to fast-track looser rules for new genetically engineered plants is showing fractures, as more questions than answers arise.

December 11, 2023 4:30 am CET

10 more years: Emmanuel Macron’s broken glyphosate promise

Despite pledging to ban the herbicide, France abstained in an EU vote, meaning it will survive at least another 10 years.

November 15, 2023 8:32 pm CET
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Right-wing lawmakers poised to weaken EU pesticide bill

Unless a fragile liberal and left-wing coalition can stop them.

October 23, 2023 4:41 pm CET

Meet the farmers who control one-third of the EU’s budget

The European Parliament’s farmer-packed agriculture committee is hindering a push for environmental sustainability and consumer interests.

October 6, 2023 6:00 am CET

Macron rolls out the red carpet for King Charles III

The state visit was postponed 6 months ago over riots linked to the French pensions reforms.

September 20, 2023 11:41 am CET

US Democrats brace for a 2024 Biden-Trump rematch

The former president is more organized than ever, Democrats say, and would pose a formidable challenge in a general election.

August 6, 2023 12:01 pm CET

Super crops are coming: Is Europe ready for a new generation of gene-edited plants?

The European Commission’s proposal to legalize lab-tweaked crops pits Big Agri against environmental campaigners and small farmers.

July 3, 2023 11:51 am CET

The truth behind Europe’s most powerful farmers lobby

Copa-Cogeca claims to speak for all farmers. Critics say it only represents large enterprises.

June 29, 2023 4:00 am CET
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Yes, the monarchy is absurd. So why can’t I quit King Charles?

Britain’s 74-year-old monarch followed a path at once daring and yet increasingly familiar.

May 5, 2023 12:58 pm CET

Weed makes inroads across Europe

Germany is pushing forward with recreational legalization, but most countries are taking a more cautious approach.

November 22, 2022 8:20 pm CET

The farming MEP with a renegade plan to fix the food system

French Green Benoît Biteau says the bloc should go full steam ahead to its climate goals amid a global food crisis.

October 10, 2022 6:00 am CET

Like it or not, gene-edited crops are coming to the EU

The only question is how strictly they’ll be regulated.

October 4, 2022 11:52 am CET
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Rising energy prices, security of supply… and the green transition

Can the EU really go green in the current geopolitical climate? Repsol CEO Josu Jon Imaz answers the big questions.

September 26, 2022 5:00 am CET

Energy crisis sparks air pollution fears

Many households face the grim choice between keeping their houses warm and protecting their health this winter.

September 19, 2022 1:51 pm CET
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