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'Parkinson's is a man-made disease': How a chemical Europe can't quit may be driving the disease

'Parkinson's is a man-made disease': How a chemical Europe can't quit may be driving the disease

Europe's flawed oversight of pesticides may be fueling a silent epidemic, warns Dutch neurologist Bas Bloem. …

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Europe's farmers lost the Mercosur battle. They're still ahead.

Europe's farmers lost the Mercosur battle. They're still ahead.

Europe's farmers are a minority. You wouldn't know it from the political power they wield.

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Poland is Europe's top military spender but its defense industry is a dwarf

Poland is Europe's top military spender but its defense industry is a dwarf

Poland's counter-drone plan fits the narrow niche its industry can deliver, while most of its massive rearmam…

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How to pass a green law in an anti-green age in 6 easy steps

How to pass a green law in an anti-green age in 6 easy steps

A Slovak liberal quietly steered one of the last surviving environmental files to the finish line.

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Angry farmers push Poland away from Ukraine

Angry farmers push Poland away from Ukraine

After nearly three years of war in Ukraine, protests by Polish farmers are opening up social and political fr…

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Polish minister warns of 'dangerous precedent' as Hungary's Orbán grants asylum to fugitive polit...

Polish minister warns of 'dangerous precedent' as Hungary's Orbán grants asylum to fugitive polit...

By using asylum to block extradition, Budapest is testing whether EU law can still be enforced between member…

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Europe’s cows get a geopolitical upgrade

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By Bartosz Brzezinski
| POLITICO Europe Verified
For years, the EU treated its cows, pigs and chickens mainly as a source of emissions to be reduced. On Tuesday, the European Commission gave them a new job title. Livestock, it now says, is critical infrastructure. Its official livestock strategy, presented in Strasbourg, runs on the vocabulary of security policy. Herds underpin "strategic autonomy." Grazing animals guard against land abandonment on the eastern flank.
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How fear of farmers is reshaping the next EU budget

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By Bartosz Brzezinski
| POLITICO Europe Verified
As EU leaders squeeze defense, foreign policy and competitiveness funds in their next long-term budget, farm subsidies are emerging almost untouched. It's the latest reminder that no constituency frightens European governments more than their own farmers. And two years of protests have left EU capitals unwilling to test whether cutting subsidies would bring the demonstrations back.
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Food from occupied territories enters Europe disguised as Israeli, investigation finds

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By Bartosz Brzezinski, Marianne Gros Verified
| POLITICO Europe Verified
Almost one in five Israeli-labeled food shipments entering the European Union are actually from settlements in the occupied West Bank or from the Golan Heights, according to a new investigation published Wednesday. For two decades, the EU’s position has been that it can trade freely with Israel but not the communities Israel has built on land captured from Egypt, Jordan and Syria in the 1967 war.
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