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21 July 2008
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French Presidency hopes to improve food safety  

The French EU Presidency's health priorities are five-fold: food safety, healthy ageing, cross-border health care, health determinants such as alcohol and tobacco and pharmaceuticals, French Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot told Parliament.


Ministers OK fuel aid for fishermen, slam farm reform plans  [FR]

EU agriculture and fisheries ministers gave their backing to a €2 billion emergency aid package to help fishermen adjust to rising fuel prices. A large majority of them also lashed out at Commission plans to slash farm subsidies against the current background of a global food crisis.


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Biofuels for transport  [FR] [DE]

In a bid to reduce its dependency on imported oil and tackle global warming, EU leaders have committed to raising the share of biofuels in transport to 10% by 2020, but concerns are growing that increased biofuel production could in fact lead to mass deforestation and food shortages. (read more)

Biomass Action Plan  [FR] [DE]

Bioenergies are derived from wood, waste and agricultural crops for transport uses (biofuels). (read more)

Simplifying the CAP

Simplifying the CAP  [FR] [DE]

Further CAP reforms, such as abolishing outdated production quotas, eliminating country-specific arrangements and capping subsidies, will be inevitable in coming years, both to comply with the Commission's Better Regulation Agenda and to obtain a broader societal acceptance of the EU's farm policy. (read more)

 
Analysis & Commentary
The new food equation: Do EU policies add up? 
Juan Delgado & Indhira Santos, Bruegel
Why are current world food prices so high? 
Martin Banse et al., LEI Wageningen UR
CER: Failure of Doha talks would undermine WTO's credibility 
Aurore Wanlin, Centre for European Reform (CER)
CER: the EU budget - a way forward 
John Peet, Centre for European Reform (CER)
 
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