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AGRICULTURE
Monsanto announces 900 layoffs worldwide
US biotech giant Monsanto has announced that it will cut 900 jobs worldwide as part of a restructuring plan to cope with tough economic times. This comes as the company reported a 14% fall in its third quarter net income.
EUROPEAN UNION
Ministers fall short of banning cloned animal products
EU agriculture ministers have agreed on a set of new rules regarding "novel foods", including cloned animal products, that critics say could pave the way for the sale of so-called "Frankenfoods".
Intelligence économique
Agricultural cooperatives: the end of a model?
Have France's agricultural cooperatives lost their “raison d’être”? They have traditionally had tax breaks, but is that unfair competition?
FRANCE
Farmers end blockade after government vows response
French farmers protesting against margins earned by supermarkets on common food products have said they would stop blockading retail warehouses after the government promised a series of measures to address the issue.
FRANCE
Agreement reached on price of milk
After three weeks of protests, French dairy producers agreed on a deal fixing the price of milk for this year, raising the average price per litre to 2.80 euros. The main French farm union said the agreement was "unsatisfactory but essential".
ROMANIA

US pork producer giant causes local farmers problems

In Romania, local farmers had high hopes when top US pork producer Smithfield Foods decided to invest in the country, near the town of Timisoara. But two years later, it only seems to have caused sanitary and health problems.
FRANCE
Protesting farmers blockade more than 80 dairies
As dairy producers from 10 European countries gathered in Brussels Monday in protest at low wholesale milk prices, farmers in France blockaded 81 dairies across the country.
EUROPE ON THE MOVE
Aquaculture: alimentary solution or environmental problem?
Aquaculture can produce tonnes of fish without endangering natural resources. Yet vast farming sites tend to impact heavily on the surrounding environment.
19/05/2009 - THE WEEK IN EUROPE

Divorce makes Italy's headlines

In this edition: Silvio Berlusconi turns his divorce into a political weapon; we visit a fish farm near Venice; Europeans flock to Hungary for cheap dental care and we learn about the possible rebirth of a minority language.
TRADE
EU, US reach deal to end beef, cheese spat
The European Commission and the US announced a provisional deal to end a long-standing dispute over an EU ban of US hormone-treated beef. The deal lifts the threat of new retaliatory duties on EU products imported to the US, such as Roquefort cheese.
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