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                <language>en</language><item><title>Food | Europe's mountain of leftovers</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1420001-europe-s-mountain-leftovers</link><description><![CDATA[In  Europe, almost 50% of edible and healthy food &ldquo;gets wasted during the  different processing phases from production to the consumer&rsquo;s table&rdquo;,  [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:33:14 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Fishing | Western Sahara sinks EU-Morocco accord</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1292931-western-sahara-sinks-eu-morocco-accord</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;European parliament vetos fishing agreement with Morocco over Western Sahara,&quot; headlines El Pa&iacute;s. On 14 December, MEPs decided not to renew the agreement,  set [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:34:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>CAP | The crusade of Commissioner Cioloş</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1053321-crusade-commissioner-ciolos</link><description><![CDATA[The European Commissioner for Agriculture, Dacian Cioloş, presented the draft reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in Brussels on 12 October. 
Adevărul notes that [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:10:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Italy | Indians keep the Grana Padano coming (The New York Times, New York)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/931461-indians-keep-grana-padano-coming</link><description><![CDATA[Indian immigrants working in Italy’s agricultural heartland are keeping some of the country’s internationally renowned food industries alive. And not even the immigrant baiting Northern League is kicking up too much of a fuss. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/sikh-italy.jpg" length="39062" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:53:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Environment | &#039;Clean&#039; energy, scourge of our countryside (La Repubblica, Rome)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/868311-clean-energy-scourge-our-countryside</link><description><![CDATA[Crisis-hit Italian farmers are turning to the intensive cultivation of maize for biogas production, which is more profitable than growing it for food. But they’re laying themselves open to the mercies of speculators -- and they’re threatening biodiversity too, declares the founder of the Slow Food movement. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/corn-italy.jpg" length="44142" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:52:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland | Making a killing in organic food (Polityka, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/844261-making-killing-organic-food</link><description><![CDATA[When it comes to defrauding the EU, every nation has its specialty: the Greeks invented the plastic olive tree, while the Italians came up with virtual oranges. In Poland, phony organic farms are increasingly popular. As Polityka reports, the only problem is that they are perfectly legal. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Mirosław-Gryń-bio.jpg" length="128798" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:06:17 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland | No more Eldorado on the Vistula (NRC Handelsblad, Rotterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/826621-no-more-eldorado-vistula</link><description><![CDATA[Since the 1990s hundreds of farmers from all over Europe and from the Netherlands in particular settled in Poland because land was cheap. Warsaw, though, now wants to encourage small local operators by penalising those from abroad. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/poland-agriculture.jpg" length="162948" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:17:37 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ireland | Turf cutters against the EU (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/733931-turf-cutters-against-eu</link><description><![CDATA[An EU environmental directive intended to protect boglands has pitched Irish farmers, protecting their traditional rights to cut turf, against environmentalists and the government. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/boglands-turf.JPG" length="186275" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:50:10 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>E.coli panic | Madrid accuses Brussels of stinginess</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/700111-madrid-accuses-brussels-stinginess</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Spain is importing a little cucumber&quot; headlines La Raz&oacute;n, in a play on words emphasising the &ldquo;chump change&rdquo; Spanish farmers are getting back as compensation [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/La-razon-080062011-100.jpg" length="36250" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:33:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland | Sugar market reform a bitter pill</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/513141-sugar-market-reform-bitter-pill</link><description><![CDATA[An &ldquo;EU sugar crisis&rdquo;, headlines Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. Compared with last year, prices are up 30-40 percent and all that, argues the business daily, because [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Dziennik-23022011-100.jpg" length="26622" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:38:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Subsidies | New CAP to occupy middle ground</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/396831-new-cap-occupy-middle-ground</link><description><![CDATA[By 2020, the common agricultural policy (CAP) will be &ldquo;more environmentally friendly, more evenhanded, more efficient and effective,&rdquo; announced Commissioner Dacian Cioloş, when he presented [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:33:10 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>EU Budget | If the CAP fits, wear it (Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/395541-if-cap-fits-wear-it</link><description><![CDATA[On 18 November, the European Commission will present outline proposals for the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. The main objective: to restore a balance in the sharing of costs and subsidies. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/agriculture.jpg" length="83490" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:46:48 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Fishing | Sweden and Denmark lock horns</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/388811-sweden-and-denmark-lock-horns</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Sweden leads war against Danish fishing pirates.&rdquo; In a long investigative report, the G&ouml;teborgs-Posten accuses Danish trawlers of fishing in North Sea waters that have [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/15112010-Goteborg-Post-100.jpg" length="13223" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:31:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Food | Drought spells wheat crisis</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/309561-drought-spells-wheat-crisis</link><description><![CDATA[A heat wave in Europe, torrential rain and fires, chiefly in Russia, are responsible for a panic on the global grain/milling market, Gazeta Wyborcza reports [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Image 8.png" length="25153" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:24:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | A veritable banana republic</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/298321-veritable-banana-republic</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Romania, land of bananas&rdquo; announces Rom&acirc;nia libera. In the first quarter of this year, exports of bananas (over 1,000 tonnes), citrus fruits, mangoes, pineapples, and [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/21072010-Romania-Libera.jpg" length="7185" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:22:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Austria | EU threatens home-farm bacon</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/216601-eu-threatens-home-farm-bacon</link><description><![CDATA[A proposed European food hygiene directive poses a threat to home-made Austrian bacon, worries Der Standard. By applying the same standards to your corner butcher [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Der-Standard-03242010.jpg" length="33091" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:38:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>GMO | Barroso tucks into hot potato</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/202221-barroso-tucks-hot-potato</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;What has got into&nbsp;Jos&eacute; Manuel Barroso, who used to be a more than able tactician?&quot;&nbsp;wonders&nbsp;Le Soir&nbsp;in the wake of the European Commission&#039;s decision to authorize [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Le-soir-03032010.jpg" length="42248" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:05:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Livestock | Castrating piglets is offal (De Morgen, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/195661-castrating-piglets-offal</link><description><![CDATA[For once pig farmers and piglets are in complete agreement: the barbarous and cruel practice of pig castration serves only to satisfy a pointless whim of German consumers — which is why it should be outlawed, insists Flemish poet and writer, Dimitri Verhulst. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/piglet-cage.jpg" length="44881" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:43:54 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Agriculture | GMOs in Barroso's basket (Adevărul, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/191001-gmos-barroso-s-basket</link><description><![CDATA[The newly-appointed European Commission has just started getting down to business and is already re-opening the debate over genetically modified organisms, which remains a bone of enduring contention between member states, pressure groups and Brussels. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/cow-feed.jpg" length="46369" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:10:22 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greece | Farmers march against austerity</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/176921-farmers-march-against-austerity</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Cardiac arrest&quot; reads the&nbsp;To Ethnos report on the farmers&#039; protest, which has paralysed transport networks in Greece, and halted freight shipments from abroad. The daily [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Ethnos-26012010.jpg" length="45719" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:48:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | A Happy and costly New Year</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/162471-happy-and-costly-new-year</link><description><![CDATA[With the new year only barely begun, numerous products are already seeing 5 to 10% price hikes, announces Rom&acirc;nia liberă, which has published a list [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/01042010-Romania-Libera.jpg" length="43892" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:20:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Wine | War of the Tokays (Polityka, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/160881-war-tokays</link><description><![CDATA[For more than 40 years, Hungary has been fighting to have the Tokaj wine region recognized as a protected designation of origin (PDO). Having battled with the Soviet Union, France and Italy, it is now in dispute with neighbouring Slovakia, which is putting up stiff resistance. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/tokaj-cave_0.JPG" length="160303" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:23:07 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Portugal | Nearer my cod...</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/155651-nearer-my-cod</link><description><![CDATA[After an 11-year moratorium, the Portuguese are now allowed to fish for cod (bacalhau) again, a staple of their national cuisine, off the Canadian coast. [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/091215-publicopt.jpg" length="7070" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:13:46 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Livestock | Netherlands battles with Q fever</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/153541-netherlands-battles-q-fever</link><description><![CDATA[A new plague, Q fever or Coxiella infection, is threatening to ravage livestock herds in the Netherlands.&nbsp;In the coming weeks, all non-vaccinated pregnant ewes and [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/091210-nrc.jpg" length="7384" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:39:47 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>CO2 | Toxic farming (Le Figaro, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/142741-toxic-farming</link><description><![CDATA[A report on carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide fluxes in the European Union shows that greenhouse gases produced by agriculture are in excess of ecosystem absorption capacity. Le Figaro highlights the inherent dangers of intensive agriculture. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/agriculture-CO2.JPG" length="177022" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:13:16 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>CAP | The great European sugar swindle (International Herald Tribune, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/137561-great-european-sugar-swindle</link><description><![CDATA[Nowhere in the world is sugar more expensive than in the European Union. There are two reasons for this – generous CAP subsidies that prop up this €7bn industry…and lucrative scams perpetrated by the beneficiaries, Europe’s own sugar companies. A report from the International Herald Tribune. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/sugar-spoon.jpg" length="31874" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:47:42 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>DAIRY CRISIS | Milk industry going teats up (La Repubblica, Rome)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/120271-milk-industry-going-teats</link><description><![CDATA[Over the last few months the collapse of milk prices in Europe has meant that many dairy businesses are operating at a loss, and some farmers have been forced to send their herds to the abattoir — a critical situation, which has added to the ongoing controversy over milk quotas and subsidies. La Repubblica reports from northern Italy. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/milk-crisis-italy.JPG" length="168897" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:16:05 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Economy | How to pay the milkman? (Le Monde, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/100141-how-pay-milkman</link><description><![CDATA[To regulate or not to regulate? Strikes and the protest dumping of milk in several European countries have met with a mixed response from Europe&#039;s member states and the European Commission. Le Monde reports on how the EU proposes to settle the account with its embattled milk producers. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/greve-du-lait.jpg" length="135096" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:47:58 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>CAP | How green is my subsidy (The Daily Telegraph, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/89971-how-green-my-subsidy</link><description><![CDATA[Countries like the UK are increasingly rankled that, while being forced to increase their contribution to the EU&#039;s CAP fund, most subsidies are siphoned off to multinationals and food conglomerates with little connection to traditional farming. Henry Samuels in the Daily Telegraph discovers, however, that the CAP remains a lifeline for small and medium sized French farms. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/recolte-france_0.JPG" length="123829" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:19:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Common Agricultural Policy | No fiddling with dairy quotas</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/61411-no-fiddling-dairy-quotas</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Europe deaf to farmers&rsquo; outcry,&rdquo; headlines La Libre Belgique the day after the European Commission refused to lower dairy production quotas. Hard-hit by the ongoing [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/libre-belgique-090723.jpg" length="7673" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:25:07 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Cheap land needs buyers, and sellers (Respekt, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/48281-cheap-land-needs-buyers-and-sellers</link><description><![CDATA[Agricultural land costs much less in the Czech Republic than it does elsewhere in Europe. The Prague weekly Respekt wonders if a ban on land sales to non-Czechs, set to end in 2011, will herald an invasion of rich European farmers. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/czech-farmstead.jpg" length="42729" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:18:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>France | Winemakers see red in EU rosé plan</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/14701-winemakers-see-red-eu-rose-plan</link><description><![CDATA[A European regulation allowing for the production of ros&eacute; that mixes red and white wines is turning French wine makers against Europe, reports Le Monde. [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:53:05 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Food | Beware of Eurofrauds (La Stampa, Turin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/10741-beware-eurofrauds</link><description><![CDATA[Powdered wine, dairy-free cheese, GMO-based organic produce, stateless chickens, orange-less orangeade… – our shopping carts get packed with products that don’t quite fit the description on the label. The fault lies with the EU-imposed labeling regime – under pressure from agribusiness lobbies. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/fruit-vegetable.jpg" length="48799" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 20:37:13 +0100</pubDate></item>
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