The European Commission authorised an Irish investment scheme of €200 million to support the country’s economy in dealing with the fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

The European Commission has today proposed a €100 billion loan package to member states, called SURE, to keep people employed and businesses running during the COVID crisis, including particular aid to fishermen and farmers.

IHS Markit is talking to farmers navigating the unchartered waters of the coronavirus pandemic – next up we look at a network of Italian food producers mobilising their sector to deliver directly to those in lockdown.

An EU regulation specifying that the source of the main ingredient in a food must be stated if it differs from the origin labelled on the product itself took effect April 1.

IHS Markit is talking to farmers navigating the unchartered waters of the coronavirus pandemic – next up we look at a network of Italian food producers mobilising their sector to deliver directly to those in lockdown.

EU member states have given the final green light to the bloc’s trade agreement with Vietnam, which foresees tariff-free market access for agri-food products and protection for Geographical indications.

An EU regulation specifying that the source of the main ingredient in a food must be stated if it differs from the origin labelled on the product itself took effect April 1.

A new EFSA report on the presence of veterinary medicine residues and contaminants in animals and animal-derived food summarizes monitoring data collected in 2018. A total of 657,818 samples were checked by 28 EU member states.

The European Commission has relaxed rules on the monitoring of pesticide residues in food products for two months to cope with personnel shortages due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The EU’s agriculture sector and farming policies need to move away from synthetic pesticides to have any hope of reversing the decline of biodiversity, a group of civil society organisations have argued.

EU member states have given the final green light to the bloc’s trade agreement with Vietnam, which foresees tariff-free market access for agri-food products and protection for Geographical indications.

Lockdowns grew as COVID-19 swept through Europe and the US last week, leading French Agriculture Minister, Didier Guillaume, to appeal to “the army in the shadows” to come out and help with food production.

The European solar industry organisation wants to push agrivoltaics to “the top of the European agricultural political agenda”.

Indonesia’s government said that it expects to begin a World Trade Organization (WTO) process to resolve a dispute with the European Union over palm oil by the end of January 2020.

A row over EU restrictions on Indonesian palm oil has escalated into a far broader trade dispute that is affecting European liquor and dairy sales.

More than four fifths (81%) of the British public are worried about meat quality standards being relaxed by ministers in pursuit of trade deals with the US and the rest of the world, according to a survey commissioned by Unison, the UK’s largest union.

More agricultural workers from outside of the EU could be allowed into Britain once free movement with the EU ends.

The Spanish government introduced a new law to ensure that farmers are not forced to sell their produce at a loss.