Poultry

Brussels cooks up side deal to melt French Mercosur resistance
A last-minute push is on to add an ‘annex’ to the trade pact with South America to reassure France — and its farmers.

Insect-based pet food, the latest byproduct of EU bureaucracy

Ukraine warns EU tariffs will hammer economy and dent faith in Brussels

Yellow hat revolt: Inside France’s rural rising

EU to roll back Ukraine trade perks to protect its farmers

US touts ‘productive’ talks with China, details coming Monday

Poland went all in on chickens. Then came bird flu.
Trump talks tariffs. The EU talks free trade with the rest of the world.
With the United States throwing up the highest trade barriers in a century, Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission is on a mission to do trade deals with everyone else.
Keep calm and don’t be Trump: Ukraine plays it cool on EU trade
With duty-free access set to expire in June, Kyiv is working with Brussels to revise its wartime trade deal — urging calm tweaks over political drama, and pushing to be treated as a future EU member, not a third country.
EU targets Trump’s red states with tariffs on US trucks, cigarettes and ice cream
European trade officials sure know how to have fun.
EU to reinstate quotas on Ukraine as emergency trade deal lapses
Emergency regime to expire despite Kyiv’s pleas — with a fallback plan likely to preserve existing safeguards on products like sugar and poultry.
Values based partnership: Why the EU needs to accelerate trade with Ukraine
In the face of rising geopolitical tension, greater integration with Ukraine is in the EU’s economic and strategic interest. For progress to be made, both sides must move beyond disputes over agricultural quotas and look at the bigger picture.
Vaccinate more farm animals to curb disease outbreaks, says head of global health body
Farmers should prioritize inoculating livestock in light of increasing animal epidemics, head of World Organisation for Animal Health tells POLITICO.
Trump announces additional 25 percent tariff on auto imports
The tariffs, which the U.S. will start collecting on April 3, are likely to drive up car prices domestically, dealers warn.
UN agency warns of ‘unprecedented’ bird flu threat as H5N1 virus jumps to mammals
Food and Agriculture Organization warns of “serious impacts” on food production, rural jobs, local economies and prices to consumers.
On the EU’s tariff hit list: American chicken wings, motorbikes and … women’s négligées?
The European Commission is seeking feedback on a 99-page hit list and respondents have until March 26 to reply.
Trump wants Europe to buy more US farm goods. It can’t.
There are insuperable market, phytosanitary and political obstacles — and it could get worse.
Ukraine’s EU trade future in limbo as Trump turns hostile
With Ukraine’s privileged access to the EU market expiring soon, Kyiv pleads for clarity — while Brussels hesitates and Washington’s backing disintegrates.
Angry farmers push Poland away from Ukraine
After nearly three years of war in Ukraine, protests by Polish farmers are opening up social and political fractures in a once-unshakeable alliance.
Bird flu poses growing pandemic threat as virus evolves
Mutations in the virus make is more likely to jump species, warn the EU’s disease and food agencies.
UK reports human case of bird flu
The individual contracted the infection on a farm.
Poland expected to slow-walk Ukraine trade talks until election
On the eve of its EU presidency, Warsaw plans to only tackle trade talks with Ukraine after a presidential election in May, diplomats tell POLITICO.
Macron can’t count on Meloni to kill the EU’s trade deal with South America
France hopes Italy can tip the scales against the EU-Mercosur trade deal. Giorgia Meloni may have other ideas.
EU snubs France to seal huge Latin American trade deal
Ursula von der Leyen announces South American trade accord, delighting her fellow Germans but infuriating France which calls the deal unacceptable.
Franco-German fight over South American trade deal threatens EU rupture
Ursula von der Leyen granted the wish of her native Germany by flying off to seal an accord with the Mercosur bloc. France, which fiercely opposes the deal, is in uproar.
Europe’s farmers should calm down about Mercosur
The EU’s trade deal with South America is small potatoes for agriculture.
Want food security? Eat less meat, major report says.
Europe’s top farming university is calling for smaller livestock herds and a shift toward plant-based diets.
First pig infected with H5N1 bird flu recorded in the US
Pigs were the source of the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009 and 2010.
Florida banned ‘fake meat.’ This company is suing to serve it at an arts festival.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the ban on lab-grown meat into law earlier this year.
The EU says it wants food security. It really wants exports.
The latest Brussels buzzword is all about supporting farmers — but it throws consumers under the tractor.
This burger could kill the EU
Farmers furious about lab-grown meat are taking their fight to the heart of the European project.