UK dairy farmers to get €30m – but how?
More details have been emerging about how the government might divvy up the cash available for dairy farmers under the EU’s new €300m emergency dairy fund. The aid package was agreed by EU finance...
View ArticleEU farm incomes under the spotlight
The fact that EU farm incomes are on the wane is hardly the most surprising bit of news to come my way in recent weeks. The latest release from EU statistics agency Eurostat merely confirms what we all...
View ArticleWould-be Commissioner Ciolos plays a blinder…
If agriculture commissioner-designate Dacian Ciolos was a cricketer, then you’d look no further for someone to open the batting. His performance on Friday at his so-called “confirmation hearing” in...
View ArticleCountryside in danger if SFPs reduced
The recent document from the EU Commission on the possible consequences of policy change over the next ten years makes for uncomfortable reading. The report, which is an update of an earlier study in...
View ArticleMercosur trade threat raises its head again
Just as the threat of a WTO deal never quite goes away – talks are always “stalled”, not “abandoned” – so the threat of a bilateral trade deal with the Mercosur countries has a habit of cropping up...
View ArticleBlog alert: EU Commission starts dairy sell-off
The EU commission is inviting offers to buy butter and skimmed milk powder out of intervention. Currently there are some 76,000t of butter and 257,000t of powder in EU stores. First tenders have to be...
View ArticleBlog alert: First butter sales from intervention
As predicted on this blog in May, the EU Commission is taking “a little and often” approach to the release of butter and skimmed milk powder from intervention, so as not to weaken the dairy markets....
View ArticleBrussels goes the wrong way…
Today’s Telegraph carries a story about the EU Commission – that’s the EU’s civil service – wanting a 6% increase in funds from member states, just days away from the British government’s comprehensive...
View ArticleEU Commission considers commodity futures markets action
Commodity price volatility is to be examined as part of an EU Commission review of its Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). As part of a consultation, the Commission is seeking opinions...
View ArticleGovernment unlikely to keep broadband promises
The government could break its promise to deliver broadband to all UK homes and businesses by 2015, the CLA has warned. Speaking ahead of a Department for Culture Media and Sport select committee...
View ArticleUK dairy farmers to get €30m – but how?
More details have been emerging about how the government might divvy up the cash available for dairy farmers under the EU’s new €300m emergency dairy fund. The aid package was agreed by EU finance...
View ArticleEU farm incomes under the spotlight
The fact that EU farm incomes are on the wane is hardly the most surprising bit of news to come my way in recent weeks. The latest release from EU statistics agency Eurostat merely confirms what we all...
View ArticleWould-be Commissioner Ciolos plays a blinder…
If agriculture commissioner-designate Dacian Ciolos was a cricketer, then you’d look no further for someone to open the batting. His performance on Friday at his so-called “confirmation hearing” in...
View ArticleCountryside in danger if SFPs reduced
The recent document from the EU Commission on the possible consequences of policy change over the next ten years makes for uncomfortable reading. The report, which is an update of an earlier study in...
View ArticleMercosur trade threat raises its head again
Just as the threat of a WTO deal never quite goes away – talks are always “stalled”, not “abandoned” – so the threat of a bilateral trade deal with the Mercosur countries has a habit of cropping up...
View ArticleBlog alert: EU Commission starts dairy sell-off
The EU commission is inviting offers to buy butter and skimmed milk powder out of intervention. Currently there are some 76,000t of butter and 257,000t of powder in EU stores. First tenders have to be...
View ArticleBlog alert: First butter sales from intervention
As predicted on this blog in May, the EU Commission is taking “a little and often” approach to the release of butter and skimmed milk powder from intervention, so as not to weaken the dairy markets....
View ArticleBrussels goes the wrong way…
Today’s Telegraph carries a story about the EU Commission – that’s the EU’s civil service – wanting a 6% increase in funds from member states, just days away from the British government’s comprehensive...
View ArticleEU Commission considers commodity futures markets action
Commodity price volatility is to be examined as part of an EU Commission review of its Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). As part of a consultation, the Commission is seeking opinions...
View ArticleGovernment unlikely to keep broadband promises
The government could break its promise to deliver broadband to all UK homes and businesses by 2015, the CLA has warned. Speaking ahead of a Department for Culture Media and Sport select committee...
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