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Europe gets an appetite for Food Dudes’ lessons in healthy eating

icnetwork.co.uk     Aug 4, 2008          

Aug 4 2008 by Moira Sharkey, Western Mail A WELSH healthy-eating programme which uses cartoon superheroes to encourage children to eat fruit and vegetables is now being rolled out to children across Europe in a £156m scheme....                    

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Conference: The challenges and future of the European sheep industry

nieuwsbank.nl     Aug 1, 2008          

Donderdag 4 september 2008 | EU Voorzitterschap Frankrijk ] The meat-producing side of the sheep industry is in sharp decline in the EU. Its survival is often crucial to the continuing viability of the economic fabric in many...                    

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Ireland escapes farm money reclaim

irishexaminer.com     Aug 1, 2008          

By Ray Ryan, Agribusiness Correspondent IRELAND is not among the EU member states which have been ordered to pay back unduly spent agricultural funds. A total of €410.3 million of EU farm money unduly spent by member states...                    

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Amy Barry: We should not abandon Doha

guardian.co.uk     Jul 31, 2008          

He looked very tired. The apparent approximation and narrowing of gaps that at the beginning of the week seemed unbridgeable, should not distract us from the fact that what was being offered by developed countries was simply...                    

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Major EU initiative to improve children's diets includes pioneering Bangor University scheme

hero.ac.uk     Jul 31, 2008   1 related          

In a major initiative to tackle the future health time-bomb posed by Europe's obese children, The European Commission has proposed a €156 million per year scheme that could change the eating habits of 26 million children across...                    

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Trade failure clouds climate talks and beyond

reuters.com     Jul 30, 2008   786 related          

GENEVA (Reuters) - The collapse of world trade talks deals such a blow to international negotiations that the prospect of agreeing effective solutions to global warming or the spread of nuclear weapons seems more remote than ever.                    

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Bent Banana Boat Song

eurotrib.com     Jul 30, 2008          

We were back on bananas the other day. ("Back" after my Peak Banana story , that is.) According to the Daily Telegraph, quoting Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel, the EU is about to do away with fruit and vegetable...                    

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Why did the Doha talks collapse?

openeuropeblog.blogspot.com     Jul 30, 2008   88 related          

Most news reports on the breakdown of Doha have focussed on the issue of so-called safeguard mechanisms as an explanation for failure. From the start, the EU negotiating position has been characterised by a toxic combination of...                    

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Trade failure clouds climate talks and beyond

wbcsd.org     Jul 30, 2008   27 related          

Reuters, 30 July 2008 - "If we cannot even manage trade, how should we then find ourselves in a position to manage new challenges like climate change?" said European agriculture chief Mariann Fischer Boel after talks at the...                    

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EU launches organic farming campaign

farminguk.com     Jul 29, 2008   6 related          

Through a EU wide campaign, the European Commission hopes to give consumers more information about what organic farming and food production means. The campaign kicked off on Monday. Farm Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said:...                    

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