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...

How Brussels got France to tone down its opposition to the EU-Mercosur deal www.euractiv.com/section/agri...

🥚 French Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard confirmed "the presence of #antibiotics banned in Europe in #eggs from Ukraine" in certain supermarkets in France 🔎 She is asking @ec.europa.eu to strengthen controls www.euractiv.com/section/agri...

Brussels proposes cutting tariffs on US industrial, agricultural products

French farmers protest mass cattle cull to curb virus

🍎Last week, the maximum amount of the pesticide #acetamiprid traces allowed on certain fruits and vegetables was sharply cut ⚔️Farmers say that there is no alternative, while environmentalists disagree With views from @ec.europa.eu, @paneurope.bsky.social & others www.euractiv.com/section/agri...

Farmland emerges as both casualty and barrier in Europe’s wildfires

💸The @ec.europa.eu has failed to secure an exemption for wine and spirits from the 15% #tariff imposed by the US on the EU 🍷The sector is bracing for major losses, but negotiations are not over, said EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič www.euractiv.com/section/agri...