The Commission, the Council and the European Parliament (EP) have reached a political agreement on the reform of the Common Agriculture Policy – subject to formal...
Five member states - Austria, Germany, Denmark, Poland and Cyprus - exceeded their milk quotas for deliveries in 2012/2013, and must therefore pay penalties ('superlevy') totalling...
British actress Joanna Lumley has told MEPs that the EU must do more to protect Europe’s pigs. The one-time Bond girl was in Brussels to speak...
Renowned actress Joanna Lumley will visit the EP to support Compassion in World Farming against widespread breaches of the EU pig directive.
Parliament has called for a cap on the use of traditional biofuels and a speedy switchover to new biofuels from alternative sources such as seaweed and...
The European Commission today proposed new legislation to prevent and manage the rapidly growing threat from invasive species. There are currently more than 12,000 species present...