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Health news

Bloc’s health budget facing uncertain future – EU official

An unprecedented funding line for health in the current EU long-term budget will likely be a one-off, said a senior official mulling long-term financing more sustainable than EU funds alone.

Europe News

A Eurocrat's guide to watching the Eurovision Grand Final

From rural areas to climate change: There’s more EU policy in this year's Eurovision entries than Europapa.

Climate

Redirect farming subsidies from meat for climate's sake, World Bank says

EU member states and other high-income countries should shift subsidies from emissions-heavy ‘wasteful’ foods like red meat towards greener fruit and veg, according to the World Bank.

Nutrition

Italy to challenge Nutri-Score with constitution

Giorgia Meloni’s party is proposing a tweak in the country's constitution that would complicate adoption of the colour-coded front-of-packet labelling in Italy - and Europe.

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Europe News

Group leaders dodge farming bullets at election debate

Candidates were elusive on agriculture flash points and offered no food policy vision for the next five years.

Europe News

Record approval of farming reform raises legal, climate concerns

Faced with the roar of protesting farmers, the European Parliament has stripped down agricultural rules in record time – but some worry MEPs have been too hasty.

Europe News

Turkish kebabs turn to Europe for protected status

Türkiye has filed an application to grant its best-known foodstuff the same EU protection as Neapolitan pizza and Spanish jamon serrano.

Nutrition

Excess pesticide residues fourfold higher in imported food, agency finds

There is a low risk to consumer health from exposure to pesticide residues in food but imports from third countries need to be monitored since they are four times more likely to exceed recommended levels, according to the latest findings of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

Europe News

Final plenary and farmers: Newsletter

This week's key events presented by senior health and food reporter Gerardo Fortuna

Europe Decoded

If not Ursula, then who? Seven in the wings for Commission top job

The Commission chief post will be put up for grabs after the EU elections. Who might be the other options to Ursula von der Leyen?

Europe News

How will the next European Parliament work differently?

New ‘super’ committees, more inquiry powers over Commissioners, and attempts to avoid apparently deserted meetings are novel features planned for the next Parliament.

Europe News

MEPs query fast-tracking farmer-friendly CAP reform

Some political groups appear unwilling to cede Parliament’s lawmaking prerogatives to fast-track eleventh-hour approval of major deregulation of the EU’s agricultural subsidies and soothe protesting farmers.

Health news

Political party websites freezing out voters with disabilities - report

Severe flaws in access to websites and digital channels of the major European political families make it difficult for people with disabilities to cast an informed vote.

Health news

Agency chief seeks help from pharma industry with medicines shortages

Greater transparency between regulators and manufacturers can foster a better understanding of supply chain vulnerabilities and reduce risks of drug shortages, European Medicines Agency (EMA) Executive Director Emer Cooke told Euronews in an interview.

Europe News

EU policies jeopardise food independence, say 50% in poll

European voters are as unhappy as farmers with the bloc’s protection of agriculture, accounting the largest slice of the EU budget.

Europe News

Ministers mollify farmers with simpler CAP rules

Agriculture ministers rubberstamped fresh measures to reduce administrative burden on farmers, aiming to address imbalances in the food supply chain as a next step in addressing protests.

Europe News

Radical right now unstoppable in EU's Inner Six, Euronews polls show

Once the cradle of the European integration project, the six founding nations are now the spawning ground for radical right parties amid growing immigration concerns.

Health news

Commissioner warns of need for doctors amid risk of 'medical deserts'

The EU executive has acknowledged the current shortages of doctors and the importance of improving working conditions for healthcare and care workers through some key actions.

Europe News

Free-trade with Ukraine extended for one year with safeguards for bloc’s farmers

Lawmakers clinched a political deal on year long renewal of a free trade scheme with Ukraine adding ‘emergency brakes’ for sensitive agricultural commodities in the aftermath of farmers’ protests.

Europe News

Biotech strategy launch, Newsletter

This week's key events presented by senior health reporter Gerardo Fortuna

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