World news about “Agriculture”, including breaking news and archival articles published by euronews.
Agricultural anger: Spanish capital besieged by irate farmers As many as 100,000 Spanish farmers have thronged in the capital Madrid in a mass protest against the depressed market… 21/11/2009 - tags: Space, Agriculture, Demonstration
Auditors’ Court approves EU accounts, with a sting in the tail Rural Europe, tax police patrol farm buildings built fraudulently with EU subsidies… sound familiar? It is to the… 10/11/2009 - tags: EU Budget, European Union, Agriculture
Spuds Up … Institute of Agriculture teamed up with … Institute of Agriculture, "The National … 09/11/2009 - tags: Environment, Peru, Agriculture
British wine wins prizes The sene almost looks like France or even Italy – vineyards rolling almost as far as the eye can see – but in fact… 26/10/2009 - tags: Agriculture, United Kingdom
Milk wars Under pressure from producers and several member states, EU Commissioner for Agriculture Mariann Fischer Boel is… 29/09/2009 - tags: European Union, Agriculture
Underinvestment in agriculture provides serious food for thought… investing in agriculture is seen as our … rates in agriculture. … aid to agriculture has fallen … 16/11/2009 - tags: Food, Agriculture
€280 million milk money leaves EU budget ‘plucked’… with the agriculture ministers in … November, EU agriculture ministers … 19/10/2009 - tags: European Union, Agriculture
Farmers await outcome of Milk talks… of the EU's agriculture ministers. … member states. Agriculture Commissioner … 19/10/2009 - tags: Luxembourg, Agriculture, Crisis
French farmers stage nationwide protestsAll over France thousands of farmers have been staging protests against the plummeting price of their produce… 16/10/2009 - tags: France, Agriculture
Cash but no quota cut for struggling milk farmers… Agriculture Commissioner … Agriculture ministers will … 16/10/2009 - tags: European Union, Agriculture, Crisis
Global hunger getting worse says UN… UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation … investment in agriculture and economic … 16/10/2009 - tags: Food, Agriculture
French farmers take to the streets over falling pricesFrench farmers today blocked the Champs Elysees in Paris with barricades of burning tyres, hay and wooden pallets… 16/10/2009 - tags: France, Agriculture
GMO protestors give Brussels food for thought.Greenpeace has taken its objections over genetically modified food to the European Commission’s door in Brussels… 15/10/2009 - tags: Health, OGM, Agriculture
EU milk talks ‘going in right direction’… French Agriculture Minister Bruno … but EU Agriculture Commissioner … 05/10/2009 - tags: Agriculture, Brussels
EU farm ministers discuss milk crisis… EU agriculture ministers meet … however, Agriculture Commissioner … 05/10/2009 - tags: Belgium, Agriculture
Europe’s milk producers turn up the heatFaced with a worsening crisis in Europe’s milk sector, an extraordinary meeting of European agriculture ministers has… 24/09/2009 - tags: Europe, Agriculture
Milk strikers hand it out free in ParisFrench milk producers after two weeks on strike have been giving it away free in central Paris. 22,000 litres was… 22/09/2009 - tags: European Union, France, Italy, Agriculture
Swiss milk strike saddensIn non-EU Switzerland, hundreds of angry producers have been refusing to deliver their milk. They are determined to… 22/09/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Agriculture
Unrest spreads among dairy farmersEuropean dairy farmers once again took their protest against the EU’s milk policy right to Brussels’ doorstep… 22/09/2009 - tags: Europe, Agriculture
Dairy farmers won’t cry over spilt milkDairy farmers from six countries have been spilling thousands of litres of milk as part of a coordinated protest to… 21/09/2009 - tags: European Union, Agriculture
Milk farmers win concession over aidMilk farmers protesting over low prices to the point of whitening entire fields with the stuff have won a concession… 17/09/2009 - tags: Europe, Agriculture, Crisis
Farmers win EU backing over milk pricesEurope’s struggling dairy farmers have won political support in their fight against falling prices, which they say have… 17/09/2009 - tags: Europe, Agriculture
Angry dairy farmers eagerly await EU proposalsAmid increasing protest by desperate farmers, all eyes are on European officials today for the announcement of new… 17/09/2009 - tags: Europe, Agriculture
Milk strikers earn wide supportFalling milk prices have boosted support among Europe’s dairy farmers for an all-out strike to highlight their… 16/09/2009 - tag: Agriculture
Boel not seeking agriculture post againMariann Fischer Boel has confirmed she will not be a candidate to continue as Europe’s top agriculture official when a… 14/09/2009 - tags: Europe, Agriculture
Milk dry-up beginsFlooding downtown Charleroi with milk, Belgian farmers have joined a growing industrial dispute over low milk prices… 11/09/2009 - tags: Europe, Food, Agriculture
French milk strike over sour pricesSupplies of milk from some French producers could begin to dry up from this Thursday. The association of independents… 10/09/2009 - tags: European Union, Food, Agriculture
Push to reregulate milk sectorA German-French proposal to reregulate Europe’s milk sector has won support from 14 other countries at a meeting of the… 07/09/2009 - tags: Belgium, European Union, Agriculture, Demonstration
Fed-up French farmers target foreign foodsDozens of French farmers have been protesting over the presence of foreign foods in local supermarkets. A number… 22/08/2009 - tags: France, Agriculture, Demonstration
French farmers reject subsidies repaymentFrench farmers are promising a long hot summer of protest over demands to repay several hundred million euros in… 03/08/2009 - tags: European Union, France, Agriculture
Pay back time for French farmersFrench farmers have been told they must pay back millions in subsidy handouts. Between 1992 and 2002 fruit and… 03/08/2009 - tags: European Union, France, Agriculture
Milk wars rage on… But the Agriculture Commissioner, … Parliament's Agriculture Committee at … Parliament's Agriculture Committee … 22/07/2009 - tags: EU Commission, Agriculture
MEPs support milk producersThe battles lines are being drawn in the ongoing war over milk prices, which have fallen by 50% since 2007, meaning… 21/07/2009 - tags: European Union, Agriculture
Milk crisisThe European Commission’s long-awaited report into dairy farming – due to be published later this week – will… 20/07/2009 - tags: EU Commission, European Union, Agriculture
Sour mood over EU milk policiesThere have been celebrations inside the European Parliament, but outside the mood was sour. European milk… 14/07/2009 - tags: EU Parliament, Agriculture, Demonstration
Milk protesters head to StrasbourgMilk producers from across Europe will descend on Strasbourg today, to protest against falling prices. An… 14/07/2009 - tags: EU Commission, Agriculture
Belgian farmers block border in milk protestTwo major roads from Belgium into France have been blocked by dairy farmers to defend an industry they claim is under… 13/07/2009 - tags: Belgium, Agriculture, Demonstration
French call for EU milk helpThe new French Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire has appealed to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso to… 03/07/2009 - tags: France, Germany, Agriculture, José Manuel Barroso
Fruit and vegetable rules liftedThe red tape of “unnecessary marketing standards” has fallen — that is: no more European Union rules on fruit and… 02/07/2009 - tags: European Union, Agriculture
Farmers block Belgian supermarkets over milk priceMore than 300 dairy farmers in Belgium have blockaded supermarket depots, angry at the price they get for their milk… 29/06/2009 - tags: Belgium, Agriculture, Crisis
Farmers protest at EU summitFor a second day running, Europe’s dairy farmers have been protesting outside the European Union summit in Brussels… 19/06/2009 - tags: EU Summit, Agriculture, Demonstration
Protests outside EU summit meetingClimate change activists and farmers have been staging protests outside the EU summit in Brussels amid tight security… 18/06/2009 - tags: EU Commission, EU Summit, Agriculture
Rosé makers toast mix victoryDon’t mix your drinks – that argument from manufacturers of rosé wine has won out. EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann… 08/06/2009 - tags: Agriculture, Jobs
A drop of comfort for European milk farmersDairy farmers across Europe have succeeded in winning some concessions from the EU in the battle to get financial help… 26/05/2009 - tags: European Union, Agriculture, Crisis
CAP funding disclosure deadlineWho is getting what from Europe’s €55 billion Common Agricultural Policy? How much? Banks, big agri-food business and… 30/04/2009 - tags: European Union, Agriculture
Calls for leading nations to act against food crisisFarm ministers from the world’s leading industrialised and developing nations will today set out plans for overcoming… 20/04/2009 - tags: G8, Agriculture
Opponents of GM crops protest in SpainThousands of people have taken to the streets of the Spanish city of Zaragoza calling for a ban on the use of… 18/04/2009 - tag: Agriculture
Germany joins GMO maize banGermany has banned the only type of genetically-modified crop grown there, the highly insect-resistant MON 810 maize… 14/04/2009 - tag: Agriculture
Farm chief rejects going back on EU milk reform… Minister of Agriculture at which I … Agriculture Commissioner … 23/03/2009 - tag: Agriculture
CAP simplification aims worry small farmers… Europe's Agriculture Commissioner … sustainable agriculture are afraid … to restructure agriculture. The real … 18/03/2009 - tags: Europe, Agriculture
Riot police clash with protesting Greek farmers… to the Agriculture Ministry in … in aid for agriculture but many … 02/02/2009 - tags: Greece, Agriculture, Clashes
GMOs may grow by diktatEU biotech experts are to debate whether to tell countries to grow GMOs. This is after Brussels decided to try and… 22/01/2009 - tags: Environment, Agriculture
Farm policy reform’s final clearanceThe latest reform of the EU’s agricultural policy has been rubber-stamped, which will gradually reduce direct subsidies… 19/01/2009 - tags: Europe, Agriculture
Pesticide ingredients bannedThe EU’s farmers and chemical producers must replace 22 highly toxic products with alternatives over the next decade… 13/01/2009 - tags: European Union, Health, Agriculture
European biodiversity under threat by invasive speciesExotic species are causing damage to Europe’s environment, its agriculture and sometimes even its people. The… 09/01/2009 - tags: Environment, Europe, Agriculture
EU says no to chlorine-treated chickens… EU agriculture ministers … it. The French Agriculture Minister … 19/12/2008 - tags: Europe, Agriculture, USA
Big farms hit in EU agriculture re-vamp… from an agriculture re-vamp agreed … French Agriculture Minister … 20/11/2008 - tags: European Union, Agriculture
CAP reforms cut subsidies for big EU farmersAgriculture ministers have agreed on the biggest re-vamp of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy for five years, which… 20/11/2008 - tags: European Union, Agriculture
French fondness for farm subsidies falls afoul of fundamental reform front… French Agriculture Minister … of Europe’s agriculture ministers will … 18/11/2008 - tags: CAP, European Union, Agriculture
