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Brussels cooks up side deal to melt French Mercosur resistance

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.

June 12, 2025 6:00 am CET
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Poland went all in on chickens. Then came bird flu.
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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. 

April 25, 2025 4:31 am CET

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.

April 10, 2025 3:23 pm CET

EU targets Trump’s red states with tariffs on US trucks, cigarettes and ice cream

European trade officials sure know how to have fun.

April 9, 2025 4:15 am CET

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.

April 8, 2025 1:56 pm CET
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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.

April 8, 2025 1:41 pm CET

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.

March 27, 2025 6:00 am CET

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.

March 26, 2025 10:37 pm CET

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.

March 17, 2025 4:09 pm CET

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.

March 12, 2025 9:09 am CET

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.

February 25, 2025 4:28 am CET

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.

February 24, 2025 4:08 am CET

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.

February 17, 2025 4:44 am CET
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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.

January 29, 2025 4:45 pm CET

UK reports human case of bird flu

The individual contracted the infection on a farm.

January 27, 2025 5:45 pm CET

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.

December 18, 2024 4:19 pm CET

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.

December 16, 2024 4:02 am CET

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.

December 6, 2024 1:59 pm CET

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.

December 5, 2024 7:07 pm CET

Europe’s farmers should calm down about Mercosur

The EU’s trade deal with South America is small potatoes for agriculture.

November 17, 2024 5:19 pm CET

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.

November 11, 2024 4:12 am CET

First pig infected with H5N1 bird flu recorded in the US

Pigs were the source of the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009 and 2010.

October 31, 2024 11:30 am CET

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.

August 13, 2024 11:16 pm CET

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.

July 26, 2024 6:00 am CET

This burger could kill the EU

Farmers furious about lab-grown meat are taking their fight to the heart of the European project.

July 22, 2024 6:00 am CET
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