Austria, Estonia, Croatia high on organic farmland rankings
Austria (26%) and Estonia (23%) had the EU’s highest proportions of organic land within their total utilised agricultural area (UAA) in...
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New Romania PM underlines support for NATO, vows to cut inflation to single digits
Incoming Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu stressed the importance of the EU and NATO, on Thursday, 15 June, in his first...
Czechs right to opt out of Ukraine farm ban – analysts
Agriculture Minister Zdenek Nekula is right when he says Czech farmers are overplaying the role of Ukrainian wheat on their current...
Romania holds out on Ukraine import ban, urges neighbours to wait for EU solution
Romanian Minister of Agriculture Petre Daea expressed solidarity with farmers from Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovakia – who all unilaterally stopped...
Poland, Hungary halt Ukraine farm imports
Poland and Hungary have temporarily ceased importing Ukrainian grain and other agricultural produce, defying warnings from the EU that unilateral action...
Romanian farmers hold nationwide protest
Farmers are organising protests across Romania on Friday 7 April to express dissatisfaction with the European Commission (EC) approach market distortions...
CEE leaders say EU may need to reintroduce farm tariffs on Ukraine
Romania, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovakia expressed concern in a letter to the European Commission (EC) on Friday over an "unprecedented"...
Europe’s drought worst in 500 years – EC report
Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Moldova were among the European countries most affected by low rainfall rates in the three months up...
Ex Czech PM in crosshairs of French money laundering probe
The French prosecutor's office has opened a money laundering investigation into Andrej Babis’s purchase of luxury property in France through a...
Czech PM Fiala to support smaller farms
Czechia’s new government will allocate more EU subsidies to smaller-scale family farms, and fewer to the country’s traditionally dominant large landowners,...