Topic: European Union

Originally from: brentns June 20 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, after torpedoing the European Union's proposed budget over agricultural subsidies, is picking up allies in a campaign to tilt EU spending from supporting farmers to modernizing the region's sluggish economy. Blair is seeking to exploit the sagging political fortunes of French President Jacques Chirac to break the EU's 50-year bias toward handing out money for agriculture.

Originally from: Richard Mawdsley Introduction Cont'd Food Safety, International Trade, and History Repeated 8 June 2001 Justin Kastner and Doug Powell The Food Safety Network This paper was presented in June 2001 at the Joint Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society.

Originally from: Molly Maxwell Your £1.4bn up in smoke Feb 2 2005 By Zoe Hughes, The Journal Taxpayers were made to foot a multi-billion pound bill for the foot- and-mouth crisis because the Government over-compensated farmers by up to three times the value of their livestock, it is revealed today A report from the Government's spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, states that ministers authorised the spending of more than...

Originally from: Farmtalking From: ... Originally from – Scotsman.com News – Features – How to survive without oil http:/​/​news.scotsman.com/​features.cfm?id=623842004 Thursday, 3rd June 2004 How to survive without oil JIM GILCHRIST and STEPHEN McGINTY PICK UP A TOYOTA PRIUS The celebrity antithesis of Arnold Schwarzenegger Äôs gas-guzzling Humvee is Sting in his Toyota Prius. No vehicle in recent memory has enjoyed such...

Originally from: Farmtalking R.S.P.C.A. News Press Release – Tuesday 30 March 2004 European live transport law at crossroad Urgent action is required to prevent the European Union from going backwards on laws to protect transported animals even though the European Parliament today voted to impose a finite maximum journey time of nine hours for slaughter animals.

Originally from: PoppaC http:/​/​www.iht.com/​articles/​509033.html Report asks Blair to block Bloomberg News Saturday, March 6, 2004 The government of Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain should withhold approval of genetically modified crops for at least four years while more trials are conducted, a parliamentary committee said Friday. .

Originally from: Farmtalking European Virtual Institute for Genome Annotation receives 12 million Euro For Release: 26 Jan 2004 Organisation:EMBL The Commission of the European Union has awarded 12,000,000 Euro to 24 bioinformatics groups based in 14 countries throughout Europe to create a pan-European BioSapiens Network of Excellence in Bioinformatics.

Originally from: lina Commission proposes signing the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Animals during International Transport Brussels, 30 October 2003 Commission proposes signing the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Animals during International Transport The European Commission adopted a proposed Decision for the European Union to sign the revised European Convention for the Protection of Animals...

Originally from: Farmtalking From: ... Originally from the Western Morning News – http:/​/​www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/​displayNode.jsp?nodeId=103354&command=displayContent&sourceNode=103331&contentPK=7409445 15 October 2003 Britain could lose up to £700 million in European funding because of the Government's disastrous handling of the 2001 foot and mouth crisis, the WMN has learned.