Reading Time: < 1 minute U.S. grains merchant Bunge and Glencore-backed Viterra have offered concessions aimed at winning EU antitrust approval for their $34 billion merger, the European Commission website showed on Friday.
Bunge, Viterra offer to sell assets in two EU countries, sources say
EU governments fail to agree on gene-editing rules despite patent exception
Reading Time: 2 minutes A last-ditch attempt by EU governments to break a deadlock over relaxing regulations on gene-edited crops failed after countries including Poland rejected changes to the text that exempted patented seeds from the measure.
China may take provisional anti-dumping steps against EU pork imports
Reading Time: 2 minutes China has opened an investigation into EU pork and its by-products, a step that appears mainly aimed at Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark, after the bloc imposed anti-subsidy duties on Chinese-made electric vehicles.
Rival pork exporters could benefit from China-EU trade tensions
Reading Time: 3 minutes Pork suppliers from South America and the U.S. could gain market share in China if Beijing restricts imports from the European Union in response to escalating trade tensions, traders and analysts said.
EU regulators to decide on Bunge and Viterra merger by July 18
Reading Time: < 1 minute U.S. grains merchant Bunge BG. and Glencore-backed Viterra's plan to create a $34 billion agricultural trading giant will be decided by EU antitrust regulators by July 18, a European Commission filing showed on Monday.
Main farming groups shun Brussels protest against EU green policies
Reading Time: 2 minutes Farmers drove hundreds of tractors into Brussels on Tuesday to protest against the European Union's environmental policies, but the action was shunned by mainstream farming groups who said it did not reflect their members' concerns.
Spanish and French farmers block border days before EU election
Reading Time: 2 minutes Spanish and French farmers blocked roads along the border through the Pyrenees mountains on Monday ahead of European Parliament elections to protest against what they say is unfair competition from outside the European Union.
Polish farmers demand less interference from EU ahead of vote
Reading Time: 3 minutes Poland has become a hotspot for protests that sprang up across Europe as farmers railed against cheap imports from the war-torn country, as well as restrictions placed on them by the EU's "Green Deal" to tackle climate change.
EU sets prohibitive tariffs on Russian, Belarusian grain from July
Reading Time: 2 minutes Today European Union trade ministers agreed to impose prohibitive tariffs on cereals, oilseeds and derived products from Russia and Belarus from July 1, a move the bloc said would halt imports of these products.
Polish farmers begin hunger strike over EU Green Deal
Reading Time: < 1 minute Five Polish farmers have gone on hunger strike over European Union environmental regulations they say are driving them out of business.
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