This week, EURACTIV’s Agrifood team brings you the latest from the European Council where UN Secretary-General António Guterres asked EU leaders to lift sanctions on Belarus fertiliser potash. We also talked about the Commission’s decision to trigger the agriculture reserve to support Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania in coping with  increased imports of cereals and oilseeds coming from neighbouring Ukraine.

This week, EURACTIV’s Agrifood team brings you the latest on the industrial emissions directive (IED) and leads you through the agenda of this week’s Agrifish Council with a focus on Mercosur talks in Europe. EURACTIV’s Julia Dahm speaks with Tadeja Vidmar, a beekeeper and small farmer from Slovenia who is the current honey queen as elected by the Slovenian beekeepers' association.

This week, EURACTIV discusses a leaked draft of EU member states’ compromise text on the industrial emissions directive, and we hear from EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski for his take on the controversies surrounding the directive. We also speak with Isabel Paliotta, policy officer at the European environmental bureau, for her take on a leak of the impact assessment on the upcoming sustainable food systems (SFS) law proposal.

This week, EURACTIV's Agrifood news team reports from a large-scale Flemish farmers' protest in Brussels and Natasha Foote speaks with Sybren Vos, a team leader at the European Food Safety Agency's Plant Health division, to learn more about the first appearance of the fall armyworm in Europe - a pest which can damage and destroy a wide variety of crops and has already wreaked havoc across Africa and Asia.

This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team walks you through the Commission’s fisheries package which includes the ambition to ban bottom trawling from all marine protected areas (MPAs) by 2030, and EURACTIV’s Paula Andrés talks to Enrico Somaglia from the European trade union of food and agriculture (EFFAT) about the new social conditionality tool in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team talks about the leaked Commission’s document that suggests some livestock sectors will be hit more than previously thought by the revision of the Industrial emissions directive (IED). We also speak about the clash between two European Parliament committees over the competence of the new EU’s pesticide rules. EURACTIV’s Julia Dahm discusses the pesticide file with Sarah Wiener, Austrian Green MEP and Parliament’s rapporteur on the file.

This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team brings you the latest from the European Parliament’s front of the EU’s pesticide framework revision. We comment on the leaked draft document put forward by Austrian Green MEP and Parliament’s rapporteur on the file, Sarah Weiner and we listen to the take on the ongoing reform of the deputy director of the European Commission’s food safety service DG SANTE, Claire Bury.

This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team walks you through all the goings-on of the first meeting of EU agriculture ministers under the Swedish Presidency, including the latest on agri-trade with Ukraine and a push from ministers for more say over environmental matters, and EURACTIV’s Gerardo Fortuna talks to Arancha Gonzalez, former Spanish minister of foreign affairs and current Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po, about all things agri-trade.

The one-year scheme to suspend import duty on all agricultural products from Ukraine is coming to an end. Now, the Commission is reconsidering the arrangement. EURACTIV Germany’s Julia Dahm spoke to EU agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski about this and Gerardo Fortuna talks about his chat with agriculture Director General Wolfgang Burtscher. We also highlight an investigation on why the EU isn’t taking action in light of mounting evidence on China’s illegal fishing, as well as the successful European Citizen Initiative ‘Save bees and farmers’ with campaigning group Slow Food’s Madeleine Coste.

How is it that pesticides that are banned in the EU still in routine use across the bloc? This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team takes a look at this question with the help of the Pesticide Action Network Europe’s Martin Dermine, delving into how things will change after a recent ruling from the EU’s highest court. We also interview FarmEurope’s Luc Vernet on the impact of soaring inflation on the Common Agricultural Policy budget and EURACTIV Germany’s Julia Dahm speaks with Inka Lange, the spokesperson of the ‘We are fed up’ NGO coalition who are protesting in Germany this week.

This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team brings you a sneak peek of what 2023 has in store when it comes to the EU agri-food agenda. In our weekly focuses, EURACTIV France’s reporter Hugo Struna spoke to Stephan Malchow, chef of the Paris’ Brasserie Mollard, about rising costs for restaurants while EURACTIV’s journalist Paula Andrés interviewed Jannis Funk and Jakob Schmidt, directors of the documentary Who we eat.

This week, EURACTIV picks the best bits from our recent Twitter space where we explored the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform ahead of its entry into force on 1 January 2023. Are farmers ready for crunch time and what does this new CAP look like? Listen on to find out all you need to know.

This week, EURACTIV’s OG’s talk you through two major proposals presented by the Commission - one on carbon certification and another on packaging - explaining how this will impact the agrifood sector and how they have been received by stakeholders.

This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team walks you through everything you need to know from the most recent meeting of agriculture and fisheries ministers, from algae to fertilisers, and we discuss hints from the Commission that they may look to deregulate gene editing in efforts to appease critics of its pesticide reduction plans.We also take a deep dive into avian influenza, exploring the impact this is having on the EU industry with the help of several ‘eggs’perts, including EFSA’s Francesca Baldinelli, Gerard Leveque from the European Poultry breeders, and Paul Henri from AVEC, the voice of Europe's poultry meat sector.

This week, EURACTIV's agrifood team explains the latest on glyphosate and why the Commission is expected to unilaterally extend the approval for the controversial herbicide for one more year, EURACTIV's agrifood editor Gerardo Fortuna speaks with the previous EU agriculture Commissioner, Phil Hogan, to hear his take on the roll out of this Common Agricultural Policy reform and reflections on his part in this, and Paula Andrés what happened at the COP27 when it comes to agriculture.

This week, EURACTIV’s Natasha Foote speaks to EU agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski in an exclusive interview detailing his vision for the future of the Common Agricultural Policy and EURACTIV’s agrifood team takes a look at what is involved in the Commission’s new fertilisers communication and the reactions to this.

This week, EURACTIV's agrifood team speaks with Damien O'Connor, minister of agriculture of New Zealand and co-chair of the OECD agriculture ministerial meeting, about the OECD declaration and EU-New Zealand relations, including thoughts on the EU's farming subsidy programme and the recently signed Free Trade Agreement, and EURACTIV France's Hugo Struna joins us to explain the controversy over a water reservoir in Western France.

This week, to get into the ‘spirit’ of Halloween, EURACTIV’s agrifood team spoke to EU stakeholders about their biggest fears about the future of farming and food production. From sleepwalking like zombies into a dark and scary future, to rural areas turning into ghost towns, it’s time to eat, drink, and be scary as we take a look at the nightmares that haunt the EU’s agrifood sector.Featuring contributions from: Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius; Diana Lenzi, president of young farmers’ association CEJA; Gina Geală, Cătălina Rogozan and Elena Ion from rural Romanian consultancy Highclere Consulting; Morgan Ody from the European Coordination Via Campesina; CropLife Europe’s Anika Gatt Seretny; centre-right MEP Herbert Dorfmann; Green MEP Tilly Metz; European Consumer Organisation BEUC’s Camille Perrin; Celia Nyssens-James, senior policy officer for food and agriculture at green campaign group the European Environmental Bureau; Eric Gall, deputy director for EU organic’s association IFOAM; and DG MARE’s Charlina Vitchcova.

This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team explores the main aspects of the current reform of geographical indications (GIs), the EU’s food quality scheme.We spoke to the key players in the reform on a range of pending issues, from online protection for GIs to the simplification of registration procedures, not to mention the increased role of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). We discussed the nitty-gritty of the reform with the help of Amandine Legros representing oriGIn EU - the association of GI producers – as well as Paolo De Castro, rapporteur on the dossier for the European Parliament, to conclude with a long interview with Christian Archambeau, EUIPO’s executive director.

This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team talks about the Commission’s reluctance to commit to a timeline for the EU chemicals regulation, REACH, and how changes in the temporary state aid framework will impact farmers. We also explore the launch of the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) network and what this means in practice with the help of its newly appointed team leader, David Lamb, as well as David Armellini, in charge of the rural agenda in the French national agency of territorial cohesion. We also speak to Santeri Rahkamaa about the most pessimistic town in Finland and how one innovative rural project has turned this pessimism into a positive marketing tool.