EU agri-food and trade at @rapporteur_news (formerly Euractiv) Before: @euronews @SPGlobal 📺 @coenatolin [email protected] / Valenciana 🍊
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As Jeanne’s friend, I’ve witnessed her extraordinary dedication to uncovering her family history. In under five years, she’s mastered Spanish, explored archives across Spain and connected with leading Spanish Civil War experts and researchers. Read her story.
Recorrió archivos en España y Francia hasta reconstruir la otra vida de su abuelo, exiliado en 1937. Jeanne tiene la nacionalidad española pero no sabe si podrá votar el 29-N. “Me parece muy grave. ¿Cómo puede haber ciudadanos que no son ciudadanos?" elpais.com/espana/2026-10-06…
MEPs are at an impasse over the place of the CAP in the EU’s next seven-year budget, after agri Socialists and far-right groups rejected the proposed structure of the new single fund, several MEPs and parliamentary staffers told me.
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European Commission auditors are inspecting poultry and honey producers in Brazil to assess compliance with EU antimicrobial rules, but the checks will finish too late to prevent an expected halt to exports next week. (No paywall)
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The agri-food sector is up in arms over plans to slash the budget for promoting European food products from €112 million in 2027, down from a record €205 million in 2026.
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Don’t miss today’s interview with @berndlange – the German MEP that stood up to the Trump administration. He told @EddyWax and me how his background in theology helped him handle the pressure of negotiating the US trade deal.
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One of the biggest CAP questions: who is a farmer? The answer determines who gets access to billions in EU subsidies – and whether large companies where farming is only a small part of their business continue to benefit from them.
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Hungary’s new government let a ban on Ukrainian agri-food imports to lapse by mistake, before announcing plans to restore it, dashing brief hopes in Kyiv. "The sanctions were cancelled due to a legislative error,” a government spokesperson told Euractiv.
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🇺🇸🇪🇺 Latest on US trade deal: The agreement will face fewer hurdles in Parliament than had been anticipated, and the US has issued its first reaction to the deal.
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We spoke yesterday to the UK’s trade minister,
@RhonddaBryant, about prospects for new bilateral trade deals - including a possible Mercosur agreement (?) - the UK’s own version of a US deal, and ongoing SPS negotiations.
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The US is piling pressure ahead of tomorrow’s final trilogue on the EU-US Turnberry deal
A deal is a deal. Let’s work together and quickly implement the trade deal as agreed to by @POTUS and @vonderleyen. The EU must live up to the Turnberry Agreement and implement its tariff reductions, as the U.S. has been doing for the past 9 months.
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🆕We got a peek at a draft of the upcoming fertilisers action plan, to be unveiled by the European Commission next Tuesday [for PRO readers].
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NEW: Brazil will be banned from exporting meat to the EU starting in September unless it demonstrates compliance with the bloc’s rules on antimicrobial resistance, a European Commission spokesperson told @Euractiv.
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The Commission stopped short of introducing country-level simplification. No new “no risk” category was added to the benchmarking system classifying countries as high, standard or low risk of deforestation – a change sought by partners including the US.
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Weyand will trade in the pressure cooker of Brussels policymaking for the academic calm of the European University Institute in Florence, where she has been seconded for the 2026-2027 academic year.
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Lead lawmaker @berndlange said before the vote that the four-year negotiations led to a “reasonable outcome.” “You can’t always get what you want,” he said, quoting a song by The Rolling Stones, “it’s a compromise.”
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🧐A vote to watch this week: MEPs from the EPP to the Patriots will try to reopen the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) over a safeguard on rice imports. @berndlange has written to MEPs to ensure the trilogue deal is respected.
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NEW: After months of political wrangling, EU ambassadors agreed with the Council’s presidency that the definition of "farmer" under the next CAP would be decided by agriculture ministers, three diplomats told me and @msimonarboleas
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🇺🇦NEW: Ukraine’s access to the EU’s multi-billion farm subsidy programme could still be years away – even if the country joins the bloc sooner, Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Taras Kachka said on Tuesday.
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🇭🇺 Meet Hungary's new agriculture minister. Szabolcs Bóna is a livestock farmer and an advocate for large-scale agriculture -- despite Magyar's promises of revitalising small and medium-sized family farms.
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Great scoop by @nicolettaionta: A Taliban delegation is expected in Brussels before the summer for highly sensitive talks with EU and national officials on the deportation of Afghans.
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