Planas is in a hurry with new GMO techniques in EU agriculture and horticulture
The Spanish EU presidency believes that a decision should be taken this year on whether to allow new genetic breeding techniques in the...
France: protect livestock from too many EU animal welfare rules
France warns against too far-reaching expansion of European animal welfare rules and is already imposing restrictive conditions on them. That's what Paris thinks...
Still resistance from EU countries to less pesticides in agriculture
Many EU countries still do not agree with the European Commission's proposal to halve the use of chemicals...
Still resistance from EU agriculture against 'less-chemistry-in-agri'
Minister of Agriculture Piet Adema believes that a reduction in the use of artificial fertilizers and pesticides in Dutch agriculture and horticulture is urgently and quickly necessary...
The Netherlands: no more delaying with less pesticides in EU agriculture
Agriculture minister Piet Adema says that the Netherlands will plead in the EU Agriculture Council next week for a quick settlement of the proposal for fewer pesticides...
Timmermans urges EVP/CDA 'back to the negotiating table'
EU Climate Commissioner Frans Timmermans believes that the EPP/CDA Christian Democrats are turning their opposition to his nature restoration law into a culture clash between agriculture and nature. According to him...
The Netherlands does not want 'procedures and legalisation' in EU nature restoration
The Dutch Environment Minister Christianne van der Wall (Nature & Nitrogen) says there is still sufficient room for negotiation and willingness to compromise with the EU Commissioners Timmermans (Climate) and Sinkevicius (Environment).
No support EU environment ministers for Swedish postponement of nature restoration
A number of EU countries, including the Netherlands, have asked EU chairman Sweden not to remove the nature restoration plan from the agenda of next Tuesday's Environmental Council...
EU compromise in the making over objections to wildlife restoration law
In European official consultations, the Swedish EU presidency presented a new compromise on the nature restoration law on Tuesday that takes more account of earlier...
The Netherlands is not against the Nature Restoration Act, but wants relaxation
The Netherlands will not vote against the nature restoration law in the EU environmental council in two weeks, but it does want more far-reaching concessions against the deterioration ban. ...