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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Europe is short of corn — and Ukraine desperately needs ways to get its grain to market.
Yet some of the farmers best placed to cash in may be thousands of kilometers away, in the U.S.
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One of the more striking Poland defence numbers:
Warsaw spent $8.15bn last year on procurement from domestic firms and regional joint ventures. That’s nearly 4x as much as in 2022.
The push is to get more ammo, drones and other kit made closer to home.
Poland pivots to home-grown defence production as it builds Europe's biggest army reut.rs/4ib0cLL reut.rs/4ib0cLL
Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Ukraine’s normally copious grain exports are now stuck in the country.
They're caught between Russian attacks in the Black Sea, drought on the Danube and distrust among Kyiv’s closest allies.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Ukraine wants help from EU countries as Black Sea missile strikes choke its grain exports.
But the bloc’s capitals fear the ire of their own farmers.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Poland’s opposition is shifting further to the right ahead of next year’s election.
That threatens to have a major impact for the EU and Ukraine.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Ukraine's farms grew some 60 million metric tons of grain this year, enough to help feed hundreds of millions of people abroad. Yet along the country's own front line, 700,000 Ukrainians depend for their next meal on U.N. convoys that barely stop moving.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
For years, the EU treated its cows, pigs and chickens mainly as sources of emissions to be reduced.
But now the European Commission has given them a new job title.
Livestock, it says, is critical infrastructure.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
As EU leaders squeeze defense, foreign policy and competitiveness funds in their next long-term budget, farm subsidies are emerging almost untouched.
It's the reminder that no constituency frightens European governments more than their own farmers.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Almost one in five Israeli-labeled food shipments entering the EU are actually from settlements in the occupied West Bank or from the Golan Heights, according to a new investigation.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
No European has run the U.N.’s food agency since 1975.
Now three EU countries are fighting over who gets to try, and the unlikely front-runner is a man his own government barely wanted to nominate.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Driven to the brink of extinction by hunters and pesticides in the 1970s, the cormorant was rescued thanks to one of the EU's earliest environmental laws.
But 10 EU countries now consider it a menace that needs to be contained. politico.eu/article/cormoran…
Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Polish President Karol Nawrocki said today that Poland is ready to host American troops withdrawn from Germany and that he would personally lobby Donald Trump to send them east.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Bulgaria's caretaker agriculture minister has spent the past months documenting and exposing the country's corruption.
In days, he'll hand over to Rumen Radev's incoming government.
Its first test will be whether it starts prosecuting.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Poland announced today it will file a legal challenge against the EU-Mercosur trade deal at the EU’s top court, in a largely symbolic gesture.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
The number of people in the most catastrophic stages of acute hunger has skyrocketed since 2016, even as the money to address it has shrunk, according to a major United Nations report released today.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
The EU is eager to move on from Viktor Orbán, but there is one part of his legacy that's likely to continue: his European commissioner, Olivér Várhelyi.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
The EU is making its move to put a European in charge of one of the most powerful jobs in the UN for the first time in half a century.
Whether it can agree on whom that should be is another matter.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
The European Commission should have granted an NGO access to documents on pesticide approvals, an EU court ruled — the latest setback for the institution in a string of transparency battles.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
The European Commission is set to reject calls for an EU-wide ban on fur farming, opting instead to propose stricter animal-welfare standards for the sector, according to an internal draft communication seen by POLITICO. politico.eu/article/commissi…
Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
#EUPolitics & #UkraineWar: #Hungary presses #EU to scrap tariffs on #Russian and #Belarusian fertilizers, by @thisisbartosz | Politico
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