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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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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

#EUAgriculture: #EU to rethink mass animal culls amid livestock crisis, by @maria-simon.bsky.social | Euractiv
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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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How your favourite bookshop lobbied against the EU’s deforestation law | Euractiv Booksellers warn 'millions of books risk destruction'

Books, EU, and great writing (as usual) from @sofiamazzanaro.bsky.social – what more can you want from an article?

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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

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

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

Unlikely to sit well with EU ministers...🐟

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

🍗 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 👇🏼

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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

Hungary's parliament voted to ban cultured meat, setting the country up for another fight w/Brussels 🥩
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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

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

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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”

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 🍽️

“A steak, an escalope, or a sausage are products from our livestock farms, period. No laboratory substitutes, no plant-based products,” said Céline Imart (EPP, 🇫🇷) yesterday

Parliament pushes for ‘veggie burger’ ban | Euractiv Lawmakers back stricter labelling for meat alternatives

The right side of the 🇪🇺 Parliament (+ some socialist, liberals) just voted to ban names like “burger” and “steak” for plant-based products 🌱❌

👇🏼 @euractiv.com

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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

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EU ministers renew push to cull fish-eating cormorants | Euractiv But environmental groups warn cormorants are being scapegoated for Europe’s declining fish stocks

Sweden 🇸🇪 is (again) calling for more cormorant hunts, saying the birds eat over 300K tonnes of Europe's fish each year 🐟

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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" 🚢

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

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

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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

💶 VAT cuts on veggie alternatives
🔬 Push for Novel Foods (think lab-grown meat 🧫)
🌍 Call for “climate label”

🥫Read on for more EU battles (Nutriscore, “meaty” names, ultra-processed foods…)

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? 🗒️👇🏼

For the 🎣 industry, selling a chickpea preparation as “no-fish” or “salmon vegetarian alternative” is crossing a line

But there is more: “Solmon”, “Salmonderful”, “Toona”, “Tunalicious”... the list is as long as the market is creative 🛒

Witty branding or bending the rules?

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?

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

📣 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.

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Commission targets ‘veggie steak’ labelling, proposes protections for hemp farmers - Euractiv “Specific legal provisions should be introduced to protect meat-related terms,” reads the draft, adding that such terms often carry “cultural and historical significance”.

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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 👀

Get ready for bans on using meat 🥩 names for veggie food 🍽️ - and new rules on cannabis cultivation 🌿

Details of the draft proposal 👇🏼

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 👀