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Farm Money, and Health Checks on Feed and Food

  • March 14th, 2007
  • Posted by 7thmin

belgium-fram-reduced.jpgTwo announcements from the European Commission this week (13.3.07) promise detailed disclosures on farm support, and upgraded controls on disease and contamination.

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Introducing: New Contributors to EUAustralia

  • February 23rd, 2007
  • Posted by 7thmin

subscribers-cockatoo1.jpgThree new writers have come on board providing their own perspectives on Europe, writes EUAustralia Online editor Lee Duffield. … Read More »

Food Quality: Greens Beg To Differ

  • February 6th, 2007
  • Posted by 7thmin

greenpeace-protest-cropped.jpgAs the European Commission convened a conference promoting virtues of top food quality (5.2.07), Greenpeace picketed its headquarters declaring protection standards were still not complete. … Read More »

Window On Farm-think …

  • January 20th, 2007
  • Posted by EUEditor

fischer-boel-reduced.jpgThe executive person with most say on farm policy in the EU, Mariann Fisher Boel, EC Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, says she is opening her thinking to all who might want to engage with her.

Sample the Commissioner’s blog on http://blogs.ec.europa/fischer-boel … Read More »

EU Promoting Food Sales, Organics and Happy Animals

  • December 13th, 2006
  • Posted by 7thmin

resize.jpgEuropean food and wine sellers are to get a big boost for promotion of their products on major world markets – with a fifty percent EU subsidy for costs of the campaign. … Read More »

Unwanted Potatoes and Bird Flu

  • December 9th, 2006
  • Posted by EUEditor

fields-resize.jpgA European Council of Ministers from member countries of the EU has shelved a scientific recommendation in favour of letting a genetically modified, blue-black potato be grown in the fields. … Read More »

Taking Place in the EU: Immigration; Farms; the New Hold-up On Turkey

  • December 3rd, 2006
  • Posted by EUEditor

eu-flag-reduced.pngHandling pressure for immigration; keeping track on the farming asset, and trying to determine whether Turkey will eventually get in, have been three of the recent preoccupations of the EU. … Read More »