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    Aguilera calls for urgent measures to remove the term “milk” from products of plant origin

    Socialist MEP Clara Aguilera has urged the European Commission (EC) in writing to withdraw as a matter of urgency the name "milk" from products of plant origin, such as beverages derived from soybeans, almonds or rice.
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    The Spanish MEPs denounce the defamatory campaign of French winegrowers against Spain

    Spanish socialists in the European Parliament have urged urgent measures to be taken to defend Spanish wine in order to counteract the effects of an advertising campaign launched by French farmers with a clearly defamatory aim and which, in its view, "represents a infringement of the single market and of the EU's competition rules".

    The first Spanish debate on the CAP 2020

    Elisa Plumed's opinion piece on food reform, reflecting on future reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

    EU: OPFHs will benefit from less bureaucracy and more financial aid in times of crisis

    The new rules adopted on 13th March by the European Commission will entail less bureaucracy and more financial aid in times of crisis for the European Fruit and Vegetable Producers Organizations (OPFHs).

    Aguilera calls for a CAP wich solves the deregulation of the European agri-food sector

    Socialist MEP and Vice-President of the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee, Clara Aguilera, has called for a reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to end one of the main problems of the European agri-food sector, deregulation, in the course of a day celebrated the 3th of February in the Valencian Association of Farmers (AVA-ASAJA).
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    EU: Rules to protect European banana against possible rise in Ecuadorian imports

    On 2nd February, the European Parliament adopted rules aimed at protecting European banana producers from possible increases in imports from Ecuador following the country's accession to the EU's trade agreement with Colombia and Peru.

    The European Parliament, in favor of stricter controls on citrus imports

    The plenary of the European Parliament, in a historic resolution, signed on 15th December the resolution adopted on 29/11/2016 by its Committee on Agriculture, an initiative of the Socialist Clara Aguilera, rejecting the draft of the European Commission, currently under discussion, on the safety of Community citrus plantations.

    COAG augurs very negative effects on its new studies impacts of TTIP

    The Coordinator of Organizations of Farmers and Ranchers (COAG) has presented its study on the impact that could have the TTIP in the Spanish agricultural sector. This has been prepared at the request of Friends of the Earth and presented in an organized event with VSF Global Food Justice, Platform not TTIP, Rural Platform and Engineering Without Borders Galicia.

    Spanish irrigators defends water planning in Brussels

    The National Federation of irrigators communities (FENACORE) defends in Brussels to the European authorities the second cycle of water planning to avoid a possible revocation of the plans of the Tagus and the Ebro, to those who have raised their complaints to the European Parliament arguing that do not meet Community legislation on the environment.

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    Visit of socialist MEPs to Almeria and Granada

    The next days 19th, 20th and 21th October, a delegation of Socialist MEPs will visit the provinces of Almeria and Granada to know 'in situ' production models of agriculture in southern Europe.