Commission in bid for ‘more humane killings'

EU and US to open up organic food markets

Agreement will give access to combined market worth €40 billion.

Opposition mounts against Barroso's farm-aid scheme

Legal doubts over taking money from the CAP; proposal might not meet budgetary procedure.

Radioactive leak prompts vegetables, milk withdrawal

Belgian authorities today (29 August) banned the sale of fresh vegetables and milk produced within a five-kilometre radius of the Institut National de Radio-éléments in Fleurus, following a leak of radioactive gas.

Borg calls for capacity levels to be part of fishing reform

The European Union's fishing fleet must be reduced as part of the next phase of reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), Joe Borg, the European fisheries commissioner, is expected to tell his commissioner colleagues on Tuesday (2 September).

Champagne and oil

In response to Victor Ginsborg's comment, ‘Economic weapons in wine's war against terroir' (31 July-27 August), wine is, I suspect, very much like oil and subject to that well-known phenomenon called ‘supply and demand'.