🎙️ We sat down with Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi to understand what he has in mind on animal welfare We talked #fur, animal transport, the Commission's plans to ban #cages, and how to convince trade partners to accept the EU's shift to vaccination on animal diseases www.euractiv.com/interview/in...

🚫 The EU bans #pesticides harmful for human health, but European companies can still produce them and export them abroad 📌 In 2020, @ec.europa.eu promised to end this, but no concrete action has followed ⬇️Here is why www.euractiv.com/news/politic...

This one is for @alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy who tipped me with the name of the French village-good practice mentioned in the article. Caveat: the spirit is willing, but the... meat is weak :) @alice.bergoend.euractiv.com 👇 www.euractiv.com/news/eu-plan...

Mercosur trade deal to be provisionally applied, von der Leyen says

Where it ends up that the scheme contrived by the #EU Commission to foster #innovation systems with farmers at their core, are not delivering because they don't involve farmers. The article of my colleague @alice.bergoend.euractiv.com 👇️ www.euractiv.com/news/eu-inno...

EU innovation scheme failing to involve farmers, auditors say

🚜 Puissance agricole de l’UE, la France voit son modèle vaciller 🪫 Dépendance hors UE, difficultés à répondre à la demande intérieure… pendant que d'autres pays gagnent du terrain Cet article explore les raisons de cette crise, et comment s'en sortir 👇 www.euractiv.com/news/how-fra...

France’s agri-food trade surplus slumps to lowest level in decades

Where’s the beef? Brussels’ Australia trade push runs into farm politics

🍎An EU-wide @paneurope.bsky.social study found an average of 3 different pesticide residues in apples 💣The NGO wants tools to assess their cumulative effects

🚗🍷🥃Cars, wines & spirits: What to expect from the EU-India trade deal that should be signed tomorrow in New Delhi

"If #Mercosur fails, we can forget the European Union as a global player," @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu said

EXCLUSIF : L’accord commercial UE-Inde exclura l’agriculture, selon Ursula von der Leyen

Top EU trade official reassures MEPs over Mercosur’s provisional application

EU-Mercosur trade deal: What you need to know

🚨Member states say yes to Mercosur deal by @sofiamazzanaro.bsky.social www.euractiv.com/news/eu-coun...

EU member states should decide the fate of the controversial #Mercosur trade deal in a key vote today Can supporters secure a majority ? Here’s where countries stand: euractiv.com/news/mercosu... With @sofiamazzanaro.bsky.social & @maria-simon.bsky.social

Mercosur: Brussels woos farm ministers with reciprocity, tariff concessions

EU farmers gear up for anti-Mercosur protests

Von der Leyen proposes to unlock €45 billion for farmers to secure support for Mercosur deal

EU to sign Mercosur trade deal 12 January in Paraguay

Slowly but surely, the @ec.europa.eu is giving France what it wants in exchange of supporting the #Mercosur deal

Neo-Nazi march returns to Sweden after 15 years, sparking political outrage

Counterinsurgency: How Europe’s business lobby retook the Berlaymont

Polish minister pushes Carrefour buyout to build state food giant

MEPs backed changes to EU deforestation rules, and to delay implementation until next year. The move comes as Brussels enters a period of heightened political tension over efforts to finalise the EU-Mercosur deal, which many see as a driver of Amazon deforestation. www.euractiv.com/news/far-rig...

Or how a panic-driven U-turn from the @eppgroup.bsky.social exposed deep divisions in the EU Parliament over the #Mercosur deal

🔦 EXCLUSIVE: The @ec.europa.eu wants to make approvals for most #pesticide active substances indefinite ⛔ Exceptions only for the most hazardous pesticides or those without alternatives This is part of the food safety #simplification package, draft in my article www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...

👩‍🌾With @eppgroup.bsky.social backing the EU Commission’s budget that cuts the #CAP, @socialistsanddemocrats.eu try to claim the crown as the new “farmers’ party”

MEPs blame Metsola for blocking Mercosur court challenge

Hungary goes ahead with lab-meat ban despite EU warnings

🥦After four years of crisis unparalleled elsewhere in Europe, France’s #organic sector is showing signs of recovery

No alcohol, no ‘gin’, EU court says

President Emmanuel Macron said France could back the #Mercosur deal, as long as Mercosur countries accept the EU’s proposed safeguards, a move he said he is “optimistic” about It's a shift, denounced by @la-fnsea.bsky.social, Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard, and much of the political spectrum

MEPs move to challenge EU–Mercosur trade deal at top court

Phasing out bee-harming pesticides still a challenge, French researchers warn

Agriculture committee chair Veronika Vrecionová has asked @president.europarl.europa.eu to allow AGRI to co-lead work on safeguard measures linked to the #Mercosur deal, according to a letter seen by @euractiv.com For more ⬇️ www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...

🌲MEPs from the European People's Party (EPP) and far-right groups voted to reject the EU’s proposed law on #forest monitoring A withdrawal from the @ec.europa.eu is now likely www.euractiv.com/news/europea...

Malgré les accusations d’espionnage, business as usual pour le commissaire hongrois Várhelyi

Farmers push back against fertiliser import tariff

Animal transport talks hit wall in Parliament – again

« Burger » végétarien, « steak » végétal… Les eurodéputés veulent revoir l’étiquetage des produits végétariens

Who can resist Andrej Babiš? 👑 With #Czechia’s ex-PM favored to win Saturday’s election, his agri-food giant AGROFERT - dominating the food chain - could tighten its grip 🙅‍♀️ Opponents have long tried boycotts, but the group is hard to escape www.euractiv.com/news/superma...

🪱 Today the @consilium.europa.eu adopted a new law requesting countries to monitor and improve #soil health 🗳️ Before entering into force, the law must still be adopted in the @europarl.europa.eu and German MEPs are set to play a decisive role Here is why ⬇️ www.euractiv.com/news/green-d...

🌲The fate of a new law aimed at improving data on the EU’s #forests hangs by a thread 🚫Right-wing parties say they have gathered enough support to vote against the text today

Après les dernières annonces de la Commission, la grogne monte chez les agriculteurs européens

💸 Following cases of farm subsidy #fraud in Latvia, Romania, Slovakia, and Greece, the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) is warning of “serious deficiencies” in reporting such abuse within the bloc www.euractiv.com/news/prosecu...

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Parliament negotiators suspend talks on forest data law amid EPP stalemate

In the second quarter of 2025, the average price of agricultural output in the EU rose by 5.6% compared with the second quarter of 2024. This confirmed the upward rise in prices after a period of decline ec.europa.eu/eurostat/pro...