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MEPS this week launched a bitter attack on the last-minute deal struck between the EU and Washington on the phase-out of controversial leghold animal traps, but acknowledged...

A LAST-minute hitch this week delayed approval of a transatlantic agreement on phasing out the use of controversial leghold animal traps in the United States. EU transport...

CONTROVERSY and confusion surround the last-minute agreement struck between the EU and US on leghold animal traps this week. Animal rights campaigners claim the European...

HOPES of averting a transatlantic trade dispute over the fur industry's use of leghold animal traps are fading fast, diplomats from both the US and the EU admitted this...

WASHINGTON has shown the first signs of flexibility in its dispute with the EU over the fur industry's use of what Europe believes are inhumane leghold traps. An exploratory...

EU FOREIGN ministers' surprise decision to adopt the deal on 'humane' fur trapping standards negotiated with Canada and Russia has increased the pressure on the US to move...

EUROPEAN Commission officials admitted this week they had no idea how to proceed after environment ministers failed to even vote on a proposed framework for ‘humane' fur...

From Richard Corbett MEPThere is clearly still a lot of confusion as to what the Maastricht Treaty specifies concerning public sector deficits (letters, volume 3, issue 19)....

TRADE Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan warned this week that it was crucial -both for animal welfare and the EU's international credibility - thatmember states accept the deal...

THE fate of the draft agreement between the EU, Russia and Canada on humanefur trapping standards hangs in the balance. Diplomats preparing for next month's meeting of EU...

JUNE now looks like being the final deadline for a solution to the protracted battle over the EU's proposed ban on the import of furs caught using ‘inhumane' traps. But...

THE temperature is rising as the latest deadline approaches for resolving the dispute over the EU's planned ban on imports of furs from animals caught using jaw-type leghold...

THE European Union is inching towards a deal with the US, Canada and Russia on ‘humane' trapping standards for animals caught for their fur, which it hopes will head off a...

HOPES are rising that the EU will reach agreement on “humane” fur trapping standards with Canada, the US and Russia before the end of the autumn. A second round of...

The Canadians are pleased, naturally enough, that the European Commission did an eleventh-hour U-turn on leghold traps, but animal welfare groups and MEPs are now growling...

ANIMAL welfare campaigners have reacted angrily to the European Commission's unanimous decision to postpone the proposed ban on imports of furs from animals caught using...

ALL but one of the EU's 15 member states are ready to support a delay in the Union's proposed ban on imports of furs from wild species caught with jaw-type leghold traps....