European Food Safety Agency related content 

Poland puts food back on the menu at the Council of Ministers. Finland, when it held the presidency of the Council of Ministers in 2006, made a meal or two out the country's...

Ester Peeters on job with the Belgian government that involves some trips to the countryside and handling religious sensitivities. There are not many government positions...

France's ‘interest' in GM crops could limit the future of biotechnology. Genetically modified (GM) crops have been controversial everywhere in Europe, but especially in...

The number of EU agencies has grown rapidly in recent years and there are more to come. The number of EU agencies has exploded since the first two were set up in the 1970s....

News to make Berlusconi choke on his Parma panino. With Italy poised for a general election, this might be the moment to recall one of the great contributions that Silvio...

The European Commission is split over an attempt by Günter Verheugen, the European commissioner for industry, to win special treatment for American poultry imports in...

ALLOWING the US to export 30,000 tonnes of poultry meat to the EU, 0.3% of its total consumption, may not seem much of a breakthrough in a transatlantic trade relationship...

The European Commission is poised to lift a decade-old ban on imports of US poultrymeat as a sign that it is serious about improving EU-US commercial relations. The ban will...

When EU leaders were discussing where to locate the European Food Safety Agency, Finnish food was ridiculed by the then Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and the...

Helsinki is readying itself to host an EU agency with the huge task of registering around 140,000 chemicals for use on European markets. The Finnish capital was chosen last...

Estonia OK to treatyEstonian lawmakers ratified the EU constitution on Tuesday (9 May). It is the 15th member state to do so, and the eighth of the ten countries that joined...

We represent a coalition of European health and consumer groups concerned about the vote next Wednesday (25 May) in the European Parliament on the regulation on health and...

European commissioners will debate their policy on genetically modified (GM) products – on 22 March amid increasing pressure to set a clear EU position. Health Commissioner...

The main business of the spring EU summit, in Brussels on 22-23 March, will be the discussion on how to put the fading Lisbon process back on track, in the light of the...

THE appointment of an EU envoy to the Middle East had some of the farcical ingredients of that – still unresolved – row about where the European Food Safety Agency should...

GREEN groups have condemned the EU's failure to ban paraquat, a highly toxic chemical weedkiller. The European Commission's standing committee on the food chain and animal...

MEMBER states are split down the middle on whether the EU should adopt a law aimed at preventing cross-pollination when traditional and genetically modified (GMO) crops are...

BUSINESS risks being left on the sidelines as member states wrangle over who sits on a new agency to help the EU fight online criminals and terrorists, a leading software...

QUESTION: what has the EU's directive on savings tax got to do with Italian milk subsidies? Answer: absolutely nothing. Unless, that is, you are Italian Prime Minister...

THE idea was to spice up the debate on reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and, hopefully, to find the right recipe for the future of EU food policy. All the ingredients...