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European Heatwave Impact on Italian Travel Plans
FTN News
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July 4, 2025
The European heatwave impact on Italian travel plans is changing how visitors experience the country this summer. Italy is facing record-breaking temperatures that are testing the limits of its tourism industry. Travelers need to adjust their...
Political U turns, but none yet to benefit farming
The Scottish Farmer
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July 3, 2025
The EU continues to enjoy a positive balance of trade between exports and imports and has gained new markets in countries hitting back at the Trump tariffs with retaliatory tariffs of their own. This has brought some short-term gain – but the...
The real price of picking fruit in Britain: Ben’s story from Kenya
The Scottish Farmer
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July 3, 2025
Ben is one of a strong contingent of Kenyans working on the farm this year, along with citizens of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgizstan, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania, Ukraine and Latvia. Some of them have settled status and are able to travel freely...
Spain: EIB and ULMA Group sign €45 million loan to support innovation and sustainability in the construction value chain
The European Sting
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July 4, 2025
Edificio Metropoli, Gran vía – Madrid, Spain, Madrid, España (Jorge Fernández Salas, Unsplash) This article is published in association with European Investment Bank. The loan will boost investment by ULMA Group in new solutions to cut consumption...
Report: Trump threatens EU with 17% tariff on food exports
Daily Mail
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July 4, 2025
By EMILY GOODIN, SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT Published: 16:10 EDT, 4 July 2025 | Updated: 16:10 EDT, 4 July 2025 Advertisement President Donald Trump has reportedly threatened the European Union with a 17 percent tariff on food exports, a...
Europe’s heatwave dries fields and leaves farmers counting c...
Modern Ghana
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Farmers across Europe are facing crop losses and rising costs after a fierce heatwave dried out fields and pushed irrigation to its limits. In France, fieldwork has been banned during the hottest hours to protect workers and cut fire risks. Farm...
Spain and Brazil advocate for new taxes on ultra-rich to boost climate finance
Edie
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July 4, 2025
Image: UN DESA World leaders, finance ministers and negotiators from 192 countries have spent three days in Seville, Spain, this week to negotiate new ways to close the $4trn annual financing gap to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals. “This...
General : PM Anwar's Visit To France A Success, Reviving Partnerships Across All Sectors --Â President Macron
Bernama
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July 5, 2025
From Arul Rajoo Durar Raj PARIS, July 4 (Bernama) -- French President Emmanuel Macron has described Malaysia’s Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s two-day visit to France as a success, with the two nations reviving partnerships across all...
Agricultural Production Costs Increase Rapidly
Albanian Daily News
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Agricultural production costs in Albania are increasing rapidly, signaling an increase in product prices in the future. According to INSTAT, in 2024, the annual agricultural product price index reached 149.6 from 142.8 in 2023, marking an increase...
Europe open: Stocks fall as US tariff fears return
ShareCast
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Ahead of the 9 July tariff deadline, Trump said on Thursday: “We’re probably going to be sending some letters out, starting probably tomorrow, maybe 10 a day to various countries saying what they’re going to pay to do business with the US." The...
Lacombe's Beretta Farms expands with provincial help
Red Deer Advocate
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Lacombe's Beretta Farms will benefit from a $1.2 million provincial tax credit after embarking on an $11-million expansion to its beef processing operation. The Alberta government announced on Friday that Beretta Farms project to increase plant...
Farmers outraged over last-minute machinery inspection rules
The Scottish Farmer
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July 4, 2025
Industry stakeholders were given just five working days' notice of the changes. The UFU described the timeline as 'utterly unacceptable' and pointed to a 'fundamental failure in communication' from relevant departments. The union's president...
Spain's heatwave claims lives: one man dead in Andalucía and another in Extremadura due to heatstroke
SUR in English
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July 4, 2025
Friday, 4 July 2025, 11:58 Compartir Andalucía's regional ministry of health confirmed the death from heatstroke of a 75-year-old man in Cordoba on Wednesday. The deceased, who had previous pathologies, was engaged in outdoor leisure activities....
Mercosur looks to Asia, Europe in face of tariffs
Taipei Times
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July 4, 2025
South America’s Mercosur bloc on Thursday sought to expand its markets in the face of US President Donald Trump’s global trade war, with Brazil calling for closer ties with dynamic Asian economies. “It’s time for Mercosur to look toward Asia,”...
Heatwave-driven wildfires sweep Türkiye, Greece, and Spain
TRT World
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Ongoing heatwaves have triggered wildfires across Türkiye, Greece, and Spain, causing deaths, mass evacuations, and severe damage to homes and farmland. In Türkiye’s Izmir, 50,000 were evacuated while Crete saw major destruction and in Spain’s...
Credit Agricole Sa: Crédit Agricole S.A. completes the acquisition of Santander’s 30.5% stake in CACEIS and now brings its ownership to 100%
Business Upturn
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July 4, 2025
Press Release Montrouge, 4 July 2025 Crédit Agricole S.A. completes the acquisition of Santander’s 30.5% stake in CACEIS and now brings its ownership to 100% Following the agreement announced on December 19th, 2024, and after receiving all...
42% increase in heat-related deaths at work in the EU since 2000, trade union says
Euronews
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Published on 04/07/2025 - 19:21 GMT+2 The heatwave sweeping across Europe has claimed its first victims at work. Spain and France have each reported a heatwave-related death. Similar tragedies have occurred in previous summers in both countries,...
Europe’s options in a trade war
Geopolitical Intelligence Services
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July 4, 2025
As U.S.-EU trade tensions rise, Europe must choose between reinforcing multilateralism, diversifying trade or risking fragmentation. Mercedes-Benz sedans pass by on a conveyor at the assembly plant in Rastatt, Germany. The German automotive...
Trump threatens crippling attack on the EU that'll leave key industry on its knees
Daily Mail
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July 4, 2025
President Donald Trump has threatened the European Union with a 17% tariff on food exports, according to a new report, a move that could cripple that industry. The threat came ahead of a July 9 deadline to strike a trade deal otherwise the EU...
Trump threatens 17% tariffs on food and farm produce exports from Europe
The Guardian
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July 4, 2025
Donald Trump threatened to impose 17% tariffs on food and farm produce exports from Europe during talks in Washington this week, it has emerged. Such tariffs would hit everything from Belgian chocolate to Kerrygold butter from Ireland and olive...