Tag: European Union

• Monday, March 21st 2011 - 21:41 UTC

  EU farm ministers support strong CAP with “proportional financial resources”

  

  European Union agriculture ministers at the weekend rejected capping subsidies to Europe's biggest farms but compromised on a fairer share-out of funds between farmers in Eastern and Western Europe.

• Monday, March 21st 2011 - 21:37 UTC

  Italy fears massive inflow of African refugees, asks for help from EU members

  

  Italy is urging other European countries to take a greater share of the immigrants pouring across from North Africa. The tiny island of Lampedusa is just south of Sicily and only 150 kilometers from the Tunisian coast and has borne the brunt of the flood of refugees.

• Wednesday, March 9th 2011 - 04:40 UTC

  EC tries to downplay impact for farmers of an EU/Mercosur trade agreement

  

  A trade agreement with Mercosur should not have to destroy the European beef industry, said on Tuesday a spokesperson for the European Community who added that such fears are ‘exaggerated’.

• Wednesday, March 9th 2011 - 01:39 UTC

  European Parliament highly critical of EU/Mercosur trade talks

  

  The European Parliament passed a highly critical report on trade negotiations between the EU and the Mercosur bloc for considering that they may imply “farming concessions damaging to European producers.”

• Tuesday, March 8th 2011 - 00:08 UTC

  Irish farmers occupy EU offices in Dublin to protest trade talks with Mercosur

  

  Irish farmers occupied Monday afternoon the offices of the European Commission in Dublin, over fears of a multibillion-Euro threat to the livestock industry from Mercosur.

• Monday, March 7th 2011 - 07:28 UTC

  Peru and EU to sign free trade agreement in mid March

  

  Peru and the European Union will be signing the final documents for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) in mid March, said Peruvian Trade and Tourism Minister Eduardo Ferreyros in Lima.

• Friday, March 4th 2011 - 22:03 UTC

  EU farmers warn trade talks with Mercosur could lead to a ‘total collapse’ of the beef sector

  

  European farmers’ organizations claimed on Thursday that current trade talks between the EU and Mercosur could lead to a “total collapse” of the EU beef sector.

• Wednesday, March 2nd 2011 - 17:44 UTC

  New Irish government gauges ‘potential damage’ of Mercosur/EU trade talks

  

  Mercosur negotiations and Ireland’s share of the EU agriculture spending are seen as the main challenging demands for the new Agriculture minister of the Fine Gael-Labour coalition government in Dublin.

• Tuesday, February 22nd 2011 - 06:11 UTC

  Ireland main parties’ leaders pledge to condition any trade deal with Mercosur

  

  Leaders of Ireland’s three main parties pledged on Monday to oppose any trade deal with Mercosur countries which could damage Irish exports if EU standards of production are not adhered to, reports the Irish Times.

• Friday, February 18th 2011 - 05:23 UTC

  European MPs warn about “a flood of meat imports” from Mercosur

  

  Members from the European Parliament representing rural constituencies have come out strongly against a possible trade deal between Europe and Mercosur arguing that an influx of meat imports could have a devastating impact on the EU beef industry.