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More than 1,000 products have so far qualified to display EU quality labels, but distinguishing the real stuff from imitation is not always straightforward. If you have ever...

Should French cheese-makers and Italian vineyards be punished for the sins of their governments? Voting with your wallet is a tempting substitute for real politics. Time was...

Non-stop excitement for EU farm ministers. Here is the reason that Michel Barnier has remained France's farm minister while campaigning for the European Parliament...

Day of protests in Belgium, France and Germany produces promise of early payment, as pressure grows to retain milk quotas. The European Commission promised to give more help...

The European Commission wants cheese, yoghurts and kefir added to schoolchildren's daily diet. For generations of European schoolchildren, getting a healthy start to...

Surely the cheesiest press release of the week was that from Conservative MEP Edward McMillan-Scott complaining about a European Court of Justice ruling against Denmark's...

EUROPE is still celebrating the end of a devastating war – specifically, the British elections. And there is dancing in the streets. Sorting through the post-campaign...

EUROPEANS are fretting once again over a surge of support for right-wing candidates – and, no, they're not referring to the US presidential campaign. Rather, a strong...

IN THE words of the rapper Nelly, “it's getting hot in here...” No, I'm not talking about the pavement-melting summer temperatures currently plaguing Europe (or boosting...

Who says the Brits make terrible food? To prove that great gastronomic experiences can be had across Le Channel, the East Midlands Development Agency recently whipped up a...

THE significance of an enlarged Europe is examined at the micro and macro levels this week. Time magazine takes a look at popular myths going around about how joining the EU...

MINISTERS are expected to approve new operating subsidies to EU shipbuilders when they meet today (27 June), in a move designed to step up pressure on South Korea to end...

SUSPECTED irregularities, involving more than 100 million euros in refunds paid to EU food exporters, have been highlighted in a new report by the Union's Court of Auditors....

Forget all the old eurosceptic myths about EU standards for straight bananas and sausages of regulation length. The US has beaten us hands down with perhaps the daftest-ever...

Foot-and-mouth disease has finally reached Brussels - but only in that it played havoc with the Wales European Centre's public-relations efforts last week. The organisation...

Delays to Commission proposals are not just commonplace, they are a way of life. Like the finest cheeses, the Union executive's plans are often aged for months - or even...

Every two years, makers of feta cheese from around the globe compete for top billing at an international contest in Wisconsin affectionately dubbed 'the cheese Olympics' by...

EU governments have received a questionnaire from the European Commission asking a series of detailed questions about the role of feta cheese in each of the Union's 15...

THE EU and US remain divided over key elements of a proposed data privacy pact and may not reach a deal at an EU-US summit later this month as originally hoped, officials...

ROUND two of the battle over the protection of traditional foods is set to begin, before the ink is even dry on the agreement which ended round one. But officials expect a...