The European Commission has condemned the United States’ decision to impose high tariffs on Spanish olives as “unacceptable” and a “protectionist measure”, explaining that the move is already having drastic consequences for local producers.

The European Commission has adopted a proposal to reduce spending on support for farmers for the financial year 2019 to finance the so-called Crisis Reserve.

The recast of the renewable energy directive (RED II) must not hinder the development of the bioeconomic especially in rural areas, EU forest owners, managers and farmers have said.

The protection of Geographical Indications is likely to become the most difficult chapter of the trade negotiations with Australia, but the EU is well-prepared to obtain a good outcome, the bloc’s trading chief Cecilia Malmström has declared.

Romanian centre right MEP Adina-Ioana Vălean is backing a Commission proposal to offer a waiver from EU rules on bottle sizes for the Japanese spirit drink shochu to help ease a future EU-Japan free trade agreement (FTA) in a report to be discussed in the European Parliament’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee on 20 June.

Sixty Dutch farms producing organic eggs were found to have illegally used fifteen pesticides and disinfectants, according to the association Foodwatch.

The recast of the renewable energy directive (RED II) must not hinder the development of the bioeconomic especially in rural areas, EU forest owners, managers and farmers have said.

The recast of the renewable energy directive (RED II) must not hinder the development of the bioeconomic especially in rural areas, EU forest owners, managers and farmers have said.

Agriculture Ministers are travelling to Luxembourg to further discuss the future of the EU’s agricultural policies, while MEPs are staying in Brussels to vote on new rules on pesticides and veterinary medicinal products.

The recast of the renewable energy directive (RED II) must not hinder the development of the bioeconomic especially in rural areas, EU forest owners, managers and farmers have said.

The three EU institutions have agreed a deal whereby EU countries will no longer be forced to subsidise food-based biofuels to meet the EU’s future green energy targets.

The French national farmers’ union is organising a four-day blockade of oil refineries across France to protest against a major oil and gas company’s plan to use imported palm oil for the production of biofuels.

The UK should set up major agro-forestry trials before its withdrawal from the EU in order to boost agricultural productivity and environmental protection, a nature conservation group has recommended.

The United Kingdom government is set to step back from its earlier pledge to impose a cap on direct payments to the largest farmers in England after Brexit, in favour of a more graduated ‘siphon’ of payments across all farm sizes.