Agriculture
Global Fertilizer Day: Meeting future food needs
10 October 2019
Jacob Hansen explains how the fertilizer industry’s Feeding Life 2030 vision can continue feeding plants, farmers, people and Europe’s economy while responding to fundamental societal challenges.
The post-2020 CAP can play a crucial role in restoring nature
10 September 2019
Intensive farming is a major driver of biodiversity loss, but as...
A wake-up call for EU fisheries ministers
31 July 2019
The latest scientific advice from The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES...
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Anti-palm oil lobbies bending the EU’s will
30 July 2019
Youssef Kobo explains how anti-palm oil lobbies are hurting the environment and the EU’s poorest...
Paper food packaging "not as innocent as it seems", says consumer body
30 July 2019
A new study by consumer group BEUC underscores the need for EU-wide rules to regulate non-plastic...
Growing scientific progress
25 July 2019
Students Martina Helmlinger and Lilli Schütz tell us why they are launching a Citizens’ Initiative...
Respecting science and ethics: the case of GMOs
14 May 2019
Reasoned policymaking on GM crops requires a philosophical, as well as scientific analysis, argues...
An inhumane and dangerous practice
25 April 2019
China’s burying of pigs alive in an effort to control African Swine Fever is a brutal method of...
Facts must trump fear
17 April 2019
EuropaBio responds to EU Parliament vote on food chain risk assessment.
Anthea McIntyre: Parliament’s pesticides committee reached the wrong conclusions
12 April 2019
A special committee set up by Parliament to look into the authorisation of potentially harmful...
Parliament week ahead: Brexit tops the agenda
1 April 2019
Parliament will this week debate the latest state of play on the UK’s protracted withdrawal from...
Innovation happens where it’s welcome
25 March 2019
If we want European SMEs and farmers to be innovators and compete at the highest levels, then we...
Quality on tap
20 March 2019
The Drinking Water Directive is our opportunity to address the modern challenges of supplying high-...
Issue 491 | 18 March 2019
18 March 2019
Former MEP, Finnish Prime Minister and recent EPP Spitzenkandidat shortlistee, Alexander Stubb...
Parliament’s pesticide committee stance receives mixed reactions
30 January 2019
MEPs have given a mixed reaction to Parliament’s decision to adopt the recommendations of a special...
Issue 487 | 21 January 2019
22 January 2019
Preview to the 11th Conference on Space Policy, Carbon Efficiency, Brexit, Copyright, Reducing...
How Europe has priced out innovation: the example of plants
16 January 2019
Europe is lagging behind on several breakthrough technologies, especially in the field of...
EuropaBio statement on court ruling that impacts genome-edited products
20 December 2018
EuropaBio calls for change, following court ruling that impacts genome-edited products.
EU Parliament vote highlights need to build trust in risk assessment
19 December 2018
EuropaBio responds to the EU Parliamentary plenary vote on a legislative proposal for a regulation...
EuropaBio position paper on mandatory GM feeding studies
18 December 2018
EuropaBio's position paper on mandatory GM feeding studies calls for the abolishment of mandatory...
Central and Eastern European farmers protest for equal pay
17 December 2018
Hundreds of farmers from across Central and Eastern Europe staged a protest in Brussels on Thursday...
Issue 486 | 10 December 2018
10 December 2018
Claude Moraes interview, Brexit, Human Rights, Austrian Presidency, European Payments, eHealth,...
Reducing Antibiotic Resistance - How do the numbers add up to ONE?
21 November 2018
The collective goal of tackling antibiotic resistance should be to ensure One Health for our people...
Issue 485 | 19 November 2018
19 November 2018
Anna Elżbieta Fotyga interview, Artificial Intelligence & Security, Cybersecurity, EU-Africa,...
EU legislation must safeguard precision plant breeding technologies
13 November 2018
European plant scientists are hindered by an outdated regulatory framework that is at odds with...
COP24: The EU’s moment of truth
25 October 2018
Action to tackle climate change is now an imperative rather than an objective, argues Jo Leinen.