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Wexford local is Farm Safety Community Champion
Irish Independent
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Irish Rural Link has announced the launch of its new farm safety initiative focused on combatting labour and isolation concerns on Irish farms. Funded by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, The Farm Safety Community Champion...
China imposes preliminary duties on EU pork imports
China Daily
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China's Ministry of Commerce announced on Friday that it has made a preliminary ruling in its anti-dumping investigation into pork and pork by-products imported from the European Union, finding that such imports were sold below fair market value...
Albania, EU eye Sept 16 accession talks
Gazeta Tema
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September 5, 2025
TIRANA, Sept 5 (TemA) – Albania and the European Union are finalising plans for an intergovernmental conference expected on Sept. 16 to open the remaining accession chapters, pending Dutch parliamentary approval. Parliament’s European Affairs...
EU Greenlights $755M for Bornholm Offshore Energy Hub
Offshore Engineer News
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September 4, 2025
Sep 4, 2025 © Matvejs / Adobe Stock The European Commission is providing a €645 million ($755.10 million) grant for a renewable energy cluster near Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, Germany's economy ministry said Thursday, a major step towards the...
EU Grants €755m for Bornholm Offshore Energy Cluster
Offshore Engineer News
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September 4, 2025
The European Commission is providing a 645 million euro ($755.10 million) grant for a renewable energy cluster near Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, Germany's economy ministry said Thursday, a major step towards the creation of a cross-border offshore...
European Stocks Close Higher Ahead Of Crucial U.S. Jobs Data
RTTNews
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September 4, 2025
European stocks closed mostly higher on Thursday, with most of the markets in the region gaining for a second straight day amid cooling bond markets. Still, the mood in the markets remained a bit cautious with investors looking ahead to crucial...
Ocean Winds Installs Final Turbine at French Floating Wind Farm
Offshore Engineer News
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September 5, 2025
Ocean Winds (OW), an offshore wind joint venture between EDP Renewables and ENGIE, has completed the installation of the third and final turbine for its Éoliennes Flottantes du Golfe du Lion (EFGL) floating wind project. Developed in partnership...
Albania’s workweek eases, still above EU
Gazeta Tema
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September 5, 2025
TIRANA, Sept 5 (TemA) – Albania’s average workweek edged down in 2024 but remains well above the European Union. Workers logged 41.3 hours on average, versus the EU’s 36. Service-heavy sectors — trade, transport, hospitality and business services...
European Commission ready for trade deals with Latin America
European Interest
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September 4, 2025
The European Union is nearing final approval of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement (EMPA) with South American countries and the EU-Mexico Modernised Global Agreement (MGA), two long-gestating trade deals that aim to open up new markets for...
China slaps up to 62% duties on EU pork imports
The Pig Site
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September 5, 2025
Tariffs target offal in retaliation for EU EV measures China on Friday placed preliminary anti-dumping duties as high as 62.4% on pork imports worth over $2 billion from the European Union, deepening a trade dispute with the bloc arising from its...
Spain’s olive groves face crisis as farmers fly in migrants to pick the fruit
Olive Press
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September 4, 2025
SPAIN’S olive oil industry is running out of hands – and farmers are now looking abroad to fill the gaps. In the rolling hills of Cordoba, a pilot scheme is being launched this season to bring in migrant workers after local labour dried up. For...
Exclusive Insight: China's ruling on pork imports from EU 'justified', 'necessary move' to safeguard domestic industries' interests: expert
Global Times
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The Ministry of Commerce of China File photo: VCG Chinese Commerce Ministry (MOFCOM) on Friday announced preliminary ruling on its anti-dumping investigation on certain pork and pig by-products imported from the EU, with the investigation found...
‘I guess there will be some amendments’: EU trade negotiator is having second thoughts about deal with Trump
Fortune
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The head of the European Parliament’s trade committee said Wednesday he has “doubts” about aspects of the EU’s trade deal with the Trump administration and predicted the deal could be amended during the legislative approval process. “A lot of...
EU recognizes Brazil as bird flu free, says Brazil’s ag minister
SRN News
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September 4, 2025
Audio By Carbonatix SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro said on Thursday that the European Union has recognized Brazil as bird-flu free. The recognition “will allow the resumption of chicken meat exports to the bloc,”...
From wildfires to murky seas: Why Europe needs 'Areas Under Restoration'
Business Green
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September 5, 2025
This August, Spain recorded its hottest temperatures in more than 70 years. Across the country, wildfires once again devastated rural communities, forests, and farmland - and continue to as we speak. As...
EU-Mercosur trade deal angers farmers, environmentalists
Deutsche Welle
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September 4, 2025
Climate activists and farmers often disagree, but the EU's free trade deal with Mercosur has got them both on edge. The European Commission took the first step on Wednesday to ratify a long-awaited free-trade package with Latin American countries:...
EU to vote on Mercosur trade deal with safeguards
Fresh Plaza
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September 4, 2025
EU member states will soon vote on a trade deal with the Mercosur bloc of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay after the European Commission announced new safeguards for farmers. The agreement would create a free-trade area of around 700...
Farmer produces world’s most expensive milk
Goldsboro News-Argus - North Carolina
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Frank Shellard runs Mares Milk. (Tom Wren SWNS) A British farmer produces the world's most expensive milk, from horses and costing $17.45 a pint. Frank Shellard, 67, runs the only farm in UK to commercially produce the alternative dairy product -...
PAN Group signs deal with Japanese partners to drive sustainable agriculture
Vietstock
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September 5, 2025
PAN Group signs deal with Japanese partners to drive sustainable agriculture The PAN Group has signed a cooperation agreement with Japanese partners AGRI SMILE and Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. to contribute to sustainable agriculture in...
LA’s Blue Pacific Flavours acquired by Germany’s Capol, as it delivers 50th anniversary expansion
Confectionery Production
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Sustainably-focused Los Angeles-based Blue Pacific Flavours has been acquired by Capol ingredients, in a drive to expand its global industry footprint, reports Neill Barston. The deal for the organic and clean label specialist US-headquartered...