Ministers set for clash with Commission over pesticides

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.

Commission in bid for ‘more humane killings'

Updated regulations likely to emphasise variety of newer techniques and need for training.

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).