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Calls to ban glyphosate, neonics highlight need to ‘protect science’, say French corn farmers
At a meeting hosted on Wednesday [27 September] by CEPM, the maize lobby in Europe, maize farmers stressed the need ...
European Commission works to garner support for glyphosate herbicide re-authorization
The European Commission is exploring ways to bridge the gap between different member state requests regarding the re-authorization of the ...
Viewpoint: EU court’s finding that GMOs are safe contrasts with public’s ‘unfounded prejudice’
[Editor’s note: Roberto Defez is a molecular microbiologist at the Institute of Bioscience and BioResources, Italian National Research Council. Dennis ...
Politics infuses pending EU decision over glyphosate reapproval
The European Commission stands ready to insert a clause referring to biodiversity in the glyphosate renewal proposal if it is ...
Netherlands wants CRISPR gene-edited crops exempt from Europe’s GMO laws
The Netherlands believes the new plant breeding techniques should not come under the GMO legislation as they are as safe ...
French farmers warn glyphosate pesticide ban would halt conservation agriculture
[France’s Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot] reiterated Paris’ opposition to the re-authorisation of Monsanto’s weed killer Roundup. A vote on the ...
EFSA head: Debate over banning glyphosate not about science, herbicide’s safety
Editor's Note: This article discusses comments made by Bernard Url, the head of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) surrounding ...
Nobel laureate: EU politicians bow to uninformed public in opposing biotech crops
Sir Richard Roberts is an English biochemist and molecular biologist. A Nobel Laureate, he is the signatory of the 100+ Nobel Laureates letter supporting ...
Europe’s battle over glyphosate ‘was never about science’
André Heitz is an agronomist and a former international civil servant for the United Nations. . . . [T]he European Commission ...
Glyphosate controversy never about science but rather ‘activist’s war on Big Ag’
. . . [W]hat exactly makes glyphosate such a controversial issue? One must look no further than the . ...
EU Parliament says intensive agriculture, GMOs in Africa are ‘mistake’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For a large majority ...
French regulators split on whether to regulate CRISPR, new breeding techniques as GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The French High Council ...
EU delays decision on whether gene edited crops fall under existing GMO laws
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The European Commission has ...
Some say GMOs answer to hunger in Africa, critics claim seed companies just want new market
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The promise of genetically ...
German Greens and Social Democrats propose national GMO ban
Germany’s debate over banning genetically modified (GM) plants has come to a head: Green/Social Democratic coalitions in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate, ...
German politicians agree on GMO ban, but argue over regional or national framework
Agriculture Minister Christian Schmidt hopes to create a legislative framework that would cover cultivation bans on genetically modified plants, but ...
Video: Bill Gates advocates for GMOs in Brussels
Bill and Melinda Gates spoke to a Brussels audience, which didn’t appear shocked by their endorsement of GMO crops. The ...
Germany appears headed for complete GMO ban
After the European Parliament on Tuesday, 13 January passed a new Directive on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) in Europe, the ...
Will new European Commission president be unfriendly to biotech?
The Juncker Commission has promised to be “more political” than its predecessor, something GMO backers see as a negative development ...
Attack on European Commission chief scientific adviser’s position cause for alarm
Political ecologists like science… when it confirms their views. When it contradicts them, rather than changing their minds they often ...
EU still torn over crop-based biofuels amid fear of rising food costs
The debate over biofuels risks dragging on, despite EU energy ministers reaching an agreement on the controversial crop-based fuels. EU ...
Anne Glover, Europe’s chief science adviser faces anti-GMO, anti-tech politics
The European Commission's chief science adviser said publicly that politics impedes her ability to give unbiased advice to European policy ...
Curious case of the EU’s GMO authorization system
No other regulated product category scores as high as GMOs in terms of number of product application dossiers that: a) ...
GMO activists stage protest outside Greenpeace’s Brussels office
GMO activists launched a campaign to get EU approval for genetically engineered crops, staging a protest outside the Brussels office ...
GMO ban: Risks for science-based assessments
French President François Hollande will face judicial problems over the ban on the cultivation of genetically modified plants, and this ...
