EU May Allow First GMO Seeds for Sale Across Bloc
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The European Commission is likely to authorize the first genetically modified (GMO) seeds for commercial use across EU territory this week, in the face of widespread consumer resistance to biotech crops.
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The European Union unveils plans to allow farming on land left fallow, in a bid to tackle soaring crop prices.
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The European Food Safety Authority yesterday declared that meat and milk from healthy cloned cattle and pigs is "very unlikely" to pose risks to consumers, opening the door to possible European sales of those controversial foods in the future.
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Following the hearings of the three new candidates for Jose Manuel Barroso&#39;s European Commission, the European Parliament seems set to give the new ensemble the green light to get to work.
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France decided Friday to invoke an EU safeguard procedure to bar a strain of genetically-modified corn after a watchdog said it had doubts about the product, the prime minister's office said.
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The European Union sought on Wednesday to boost tight cereals supplies with a proposal to suspend import duties and freeze a requirement for farmers to keep land fallow.
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Europeâs farmers are beginning to grow crops that can be turned into fuels meant to produce fewer emissions than gas or oil.
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Monsanto Co., Syngenta AG and Bayer AG failed to win wider access to the European Union&#39;s biotechnology market when a demand that five nations lift bans on some gene-modified foods allowed elsewhere in the EU was blocked.
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A European Commissioner and Italian minister led calls on Wednesday for the European Union to introduce obligatory &quot;Made in...&quot; labels for some products imported into the bloc.
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A total freeze on commercial genetically modified crops, such as France may be considering, is not allowed under EU rules, the European Commission said Friday.
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A conference on genetically-modified crops opens in Germany with calls for Europe to take up GM foods.
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One man&#39;s veal piccante may be another person&#39;s veal francese, but at least the EU has now defined exactly what veal is -- in Europe.
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The European Commission said on Wednesday it favoured allowing US biotech giant Monsanto to sell a genetically-modified oilseed rape known as GT73 in the 25-nation European Union.
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Amflora potatoes have become the unlikely lightning rod in the angry debate over genetically modified crops in Europe.
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BRUSSELS - European Union governments gave a mixed blessing on Monday to plans for developing Europe&#39;s countryside that aim to weed out years of crippling red tape and give more prominence to the environment in farming and forestry.
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The government allows genetically modified potato trials in a bid to fight blight.
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BRUSSELS, Aug. 26 -- The United States will have to wait until next year to see its fight with the European Union over biotech foods resolved, as the World Trade Organization agreed to an E.U. request to bring scientists into the debate, officials said Thursday.