
The EU wants to shield the agri‑food sector from unfair competition
Agriculture ministers are calling for reciprocity, safeguard clauses and stronger protection for geographical indications in trade agreements with third countries.
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Agriculture ministers are calling for reciprocity, safeguard clauses and stronger protection for geographical indications in trade agreements with third countries.

La 153ª Fira de Sant Josep de Mollerussa ,Conocida como la “Feria Catalana de la Maquinaria Agrícola”, es uno de los eventos sectoriales más importantes de

The EU-Mercosur Agreement risks enabling unsustainable duty-free imports of rice, poultry, beef, sugar, maize and ethanol, much of which is produced under significantly weaker standards

On 27 July 2025, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and US President Donald J. Trump agreed a deal on tariffs and trade. The transatlantic partnership is a key artery

The Spring 2021 Economic Forecast projects that the EU economy will expand by 4.2% in 2021 and by 4.4% in 2022. The euro area economy

From the European Commission they want to clarify doubts about the new CAP and the FEMP (European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, its economic distribution and its new strategic lines.

The commissioner has announced the imminent presentation of a proposed regulation for the opening of a measure to help private storage of olive oil, to help adjust the offer.

By Milagros Jurado The services of the European Commission will continue to assist the Spanish industry and the Government of Spain, in order to ensure

According to Nufarm, the world leader in crop protection, the new Maximum Residue Limit (MRL) of Diclorprop-P for the whole citrus group was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 30th September (Regulation (EU ) of Commission 2017/1777). The new MRL set at 0.3 mg / kg includes oranges, mandarins, lemons, limes and grapefruits.

The National Association of Agricultural, Forestry and Green Space Machinery (ANSEMAT) participates together with four European partners (the Agricultural University of Athens (Greece), Mad About Pandas (Germany), Inosens (Serbia) and Innovative Initiatives (Spain)) in the European innovation project GATES, acronym of “Applying GAming TEchnologies for training professionals in Smart Farming”.

Following bad weather conditions last year that have severely affected the harvest of hops in the EU, one of the main areas of work of the president of the working group “Hops” of farmers and agricultural cooperatives COPA-COGECA, Bernard Ingwiller will improve yields and creating export opportunities.
The European Federation of Olive-Pomace Oil and Olive Biomass starts walking and does so with the force that gives the union and good understanding between the four associations of olive cake treatment plants there is at present in the European Union.
The European Statistical Office (Eurostat) has released the first estimates of real agricultural income per AWU in constant terms in the European Union (EU) in 2015. As for all its 28 member states has fallen an average of 4.3 %, particularly for Germany, Poland and the UK, although with greater largest increases in Croatia, Latvia and Greece, the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture indicated that it has rise for farmers by 3.8%.
Farmers the world’s largest olive grove, Spain, und the rest of European too reject the decision of the Commission to increase by 35,000 tonnes tariff-free access of olive oil in Tunisia for two years, adding to the 56,700 t already granted to the North African country and amounts unlimited aimed at refining. In addition, there is a proposal for two years, which can not be justified by the situation of a bad campaign as before, and allows the permitted volume between once and no monthly quotas as in the current system.