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EU, UK and Norway remain deadlocked over Atlantic fishing rights | Euractiv

Ireland, Poland and Spain push for import bans over overfishing

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#EUAgriculture: #EU to rethink mass animal culls amid livestock crisis, by @maria-simon.bsky.social | Euractiv www.euractiv.com/news/illegal...

EU to rethink mass animal culls amid livestock crisis | Euractiv

Illegal vaccines are circulating in Greece, unrest over veterinary measures has rocked France and Spain

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Parliament, Council hit standstill on ‘veggie burger’ ban | Euractiv

Wednesday's meeting was meant to be the final round of talks between European Parliament and Council to agree on a review of the Common Market Organisation

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Books, EU, and great writing (as usual) from @sofiamazzanaro.bsky.social – what more can you want from an article? www.euractiv.com/news/how-you...

How your favourite bookshop lobbied against the EU’s deforestation law | Euractiv

Booksellers warn 'millions of books risk destruction'

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In case you missed it ⚠️🧬 The latest on NGTs, as usual w/ @sofiamazzanaro.bsky.social 👇 www.euractiv.com/news/brussel...

Brussels strikes long-awaited deal on gene-edited crops | Euractiv

If approved, the transitional deal will ease market access for plants obtained with techniques more sophisticated than those used for GMOs

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#Agrifood: #EU heads closer to food gene-editing law after Parliament changes course, by @maria-simon.bsky.social & @sofiamazzanaro.bsky.social | Euractiv www.euractiv.com/news/eu-head...

📣“Good law-making cannot be compromised even for the sake of urgency” said @ombudsman.europa.eu

EU Ombudsman accuses Commission of maladministration over farm rule changes | Euractiv

The first CAP simplification package followed a wave of farmer protests across the EU and was deemed politically urgent by the Commission

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Unlikely to sit well with EU ministers...🐟

🍗 More water in poultry products? EU Commission says no 💦 The industry warns that current limits don’t match today’s breeds 🐓 But the Commission won’t move. “When you fry the breast in the pan, you can be disappointed…” Full story 👇🏼 www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

Commission refuses to allow more water in chicken meat | Euractiv

Producers say that the current limits don’t apply to today’s fast-growing animals

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Hungary's parliament voted to ban cultured meat, setting the country up for another fight w/Brussels 🥩 www.euractiv.com/news/hungary...

Hungary goes ahead with lab-meat ban despite EU warnings | Euractiv

Brussels told Budapest that the ban would breach EU law and disrupt the single market

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Featuring in Wilder’s short-lived coalition has hit the @boerburgerb.bsky.social - but not sunk it 🗳️ What’s next for Dutch farmers? 👩🏻‍🌾 🐄 The centrist coalition expected to form could put mandatory farm closures back on the table www.euractiv.com/news/farmers...

Farmers' party holds on in Dutch election after brief spell in government | Euractiv

Being part of Geert Wilders’ short-lived government cost the right-wing farmers’ party seats, but not survival

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🇵🇱 Polish govn’t accuses foreign supermarkets 🛒, global traders 🌾 of squeezing farmers 👩🏻‍🌾 @StefanKrajewski promises action but keeps expectations in check❕ “We are in a single 🇪🇺 market … it’s not like it was before 1989”

Euractiv@euractiv.com · 10mo ago

Poland’s farm price row turns nationalistic

Cell-based #meat has been raising eyebrows for a while…🥩 Innovators say fish could be next to make a splash 👀 In Leuven 🇧🇪, a start-up wants to put lab-grown fish on Europeans’ plates by 2030 🐟 In Hamburg 🇩🇪, another aims to sell lab-grown caviar in Singapore in 2026 🍽️

Euractiv@euractiv.com · 10mo ago

First came lab-grown meat – now comes the fish

The right side of the 🇪🇺 Parliament (+ some socialist, liberals) just voted to ban names like “burger” and “steak” for plant-based products 🌱❌ 👇🏼 @euractiv.com www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...

Parliament pushes for ‘veggie burger’ ban | Euractiv

Lawmakers back stricter labelling for meat alternatives

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🇪🇸’s Luis Planas says the CAP proposal could give 🇪🇺 countries too much financial wiggle room and undercut fair competition Full interview here👇🏼 @euractiv.com euractiv.com/interview/comm…

Sweden 🇸🇪 is (again) calling for more cormorant hunts, saying the birds eat over 300K tonnes of Europe's fish each year 🐟 www.euractiv.com/news/eu-mini...

EU ministers renew push to cull fish-eating cormorants | Euractiv

But environmental groups warn cormorants are being scapegoated for Europe’s declining fish stocks

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“I don’t think the #WTO should be too euphoric about this” John Clarke told @euractiv.com 🎣After 2 decades in the making, the deal has come into force - but is this just the beginning? Read on to learn about the fate of illegal fishing hotspots, such as Argentina’s "Mile 201" 🚢

Euractiv@euractiv.com · 11mo ago

Real battle over harmful fishing subsidies looms after WTO deal

Read this empathic conversation @maria-simon.bsky.social held with the young folks heading out to sea in Spain -- a rarity for a dying profession. Unai Ruiz-Zeberio Almandoz chose the boat over 2nd division goalkeeping, while Alba Aguilera Olivencia (24) is 4th gen www.euractiv.com/news/swappin...

Swapping football for fishing, why some in Spain are heading out to sea | Euractiv

Sailing out for tuna is an attractive prospect for some of the country's youth looking for a career

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"Some will hysterically cry even treason. Some will say we’re surrendering sovereignty or freedoms, but that is nonsense" said 🇬🇧’s EU affairs minister Nick Thomas-Symonds

Euractiv@euractiv.com · 11mo ago

UK hungry for autumn food talks in Brussels as prices bite

After his appointment, Rainer said that Germans were mature enough to decide what to put in their shopping baskets…. 🛒 … a few months later, govn’t advisors are handing him a report calling for a shift away from his cherished meat 🥩🍖🥓 What’s in it? 🗒️👇🏼

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Germany’s ‘butcher’ minister told to push for greener diets

In 1929, Magritte painted “This is not as pipe” to argue that a label does not constitute the object 🎨 In 2025, Brussels is caught in a dilemma over representations and the defense of what is “real” 🌱🍣 🤔 Whether in art or at the supermarket, is a name ever just a name?

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Fish joins meat in fray over veggie food

The #EU fishing lobby is accusing vegetarian companies of giving their no-fish products a disguise that’s a little too convincing via @maria-simon.bsky.social

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Fish joins meat in fray over veggie food

📣 Stay in the loop on the next EU budget 💶 🎢 Our reporters are covering every twist and turn, LIVE, of what is set to be the most important budget in EU history. 🔖 Bookmark and keep this link open, as we report on von der Leyen's proposal, and initial reactions. www.euractiv.com/section/econ...

The COM proposal follows pressure from farm ministers and MEPs, but does not go as far as some were hoping… 🍽️ Among processed meats, only bacon 🥓 made it to the list seen by @euractiv.com 👀

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Commission excludes ‘steak’, ‘sausage’ from crackdown on veggie meat labelling

Get ready for bans on using meat 🥩 names for veggie food 🍽️ - and new rules on cannabis cultivation 🌿 Details of the draft proposal 👇🏼

Euractiv@euractiv.com · last yr.

Commission targets ‘veggie steak’ labelling, proposes protections for hemp farmers

As with farm subsidies, the COM plans to integrate fisheries 🎣 into the new single fund. Still, it is ready to meet one of the industry’s long-standing demands: lifting key restrictions on EU funding ⛴️ - we got the draft 👀

Euractiv@euractiv.com · last yr.

EXCLUSIVE: Commission to lift funding restrictions on vessel capacity

🚨 Brussels will include the #CAP in a new single fund, keeping farmers’ income support ringfenced but scrapping the rural development pillar, according to a draft seen by @sofiamazzanaro.bsky.social and me ‼️ www.euractiv.com/section/agri...

EXCLUSIVE: Brussels proposes ‘single fund’ CAP but preserves farmers' direct support - Euractiv

EU plans CAP reform into a single fund, dropping rural development but keeping direct support for farmers.

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The 🇳🇱 farmers party sees little hope of swaying the EU to retain its manure exemption 💩 - and has little time before October’s snap election🗳️

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The Netherlands’ last bet to clean up its manure mountain

Amid Italy’s pushback on CBD 🇮🇹, farm MEPs in Brussels press for EU rules on hemp 🇪🇺 Their idea? 👇🏼 🌿 EU-wide THC limit of 0.5% 🪻 Endorsing the use of “the entire plant” - so also the flower, which some countries consider as a narcotic… ⚠️

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High hopes: MEPs push to free hemp from national bans

DK 🇩🇰will take the lead in negotiations at the Council, all while facing disputes with EU neighbours (UK🇬🇧, Norway🇳🇴...) and navigating sustainability challenges at home. 👉To tax or not to tax, that is the question 🤔 👉 Never ending fight over bottom trawling 🐟

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Crunch time for EU fisheries as Denmark set to steer agenda