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[ENS] EU Environment Ministers Keep Bans on Transgenic Maize: EU Environment Ministers Keep Bans on Transgenic Maize BRUSSELS, Belgium, March 2, 2009 (ENS) - European Union environment ministers today overwhelmingly rejected a European Commission proposal to force Austria and Hungary to lift their bans on the controversial cultivation of varieties of genetically modified maize, or corn.

[gmoSafety - new documents] French government sticks to ban on cultivating MON810 GM maize: This makes the Afssa report just the latest in a long line of opinion statements, reports and counter reports for and against the ban that have been produced in France over recent months. The Le Maho paper, on which the Afssa report is based, was in fact a response to the opinion statement by the seed manufacturer Monsanto in response to a report by France’s provisional High Council for Biotechnology, on the basis of which the French government had imposed the ban on the company’s maize.

[FoodNavigator RSS] New no-vote over lifting GM crop bans: A qualified majority (282 votes out of 345) were against the move, even though the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has given its opinion that Mon 810 is safe, and it is presently authorised for EU cultivation. This is the forth time the question over Hungary and Austria has been put to ministerial vote.

[European Tribune] European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress.: givne that the ECB is specifically forbidden fro mbuying government bonds, expect this to be spinned as the US "dynamically and creatively" looks for solutions to the crisis, while Europe is sticking rigidly to outdated rules and not doing what it takes to solve it (pace Krugman, as quoted various times by Migeru).

[La Leva di Archimede (ENG)] EU upholds Austria, Hungary right to ban GM crops - La Leva di ...: National GMO bans are the only area of EU biotech policy where countries can muster enough consensus under the bloc's complex weighted voting rules to secure an agreement. On applications for new GM products, for example, they are always deadlocked, leading to default approvals by the Commission.

[GlobalGoodNews Positive and Success] Environmental News and Agricultural News: Top Stories: National GMO bans are the only area of EU biotech policy where countries can muster enough consensus under the bloc's complex weighted voting rules to secure an agreement. On applications for new GM products, for example, they are always deadlocked, leading to default approvals by the Commission.

[European Tribune] European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress.: ...Today's Pakistan resembles Russia eight years ago: a nation under pressure from the United States and Britain, ruling elites subservient to Washington and London, ethnic and sectarian insurgencies being encouraged from outside, and foreign-inspired intrigues underway to weaken and neutralise the security establishment from within. The most important resemblance between a crumbling Russia in the 1990s and today's Pakistan is that a chaotic and messy version of democracy, with full backing from Washington and London that brought Russia close to collapse, is in progress in Pakistan.

[Forests.org: Forest Protection Portal RSS Newsfeed] EU upholds Austria, Hungary right to ban GM crops: One of the EU's most GMO-wary member states, Austria is the only remaining country cited in the World Trade Organization case filed against the European Commission by major GM crop growers Argentina, Canada and the United States that still has its bans on specific GM products in effect.

[The Great Beyond - Blog Posts] The Great Beyond: European nations win right to ban GM crops: The European Commission, on the other hand, was humiliatingly relegated. It had proposed that the two countries lift their bans which contravenes an EU directive to which all 27 EU member states are signed up.

[Caroline Lucas MEP] Caroline Lucas MEP » Blog Archive » Environment Ministers Defy ...: "Today’s vote is a clear signal that a growing number of member states are losing confidence in the judgment of the European Commission on GMO issues. This is a slap in the face for Commission President Barroso, who has, often with the support of the UK government, become a stooge of the agro-tech industry and overruled the position of EU environment commissioner Stavros Dimas.

[JustGetThere] EU Foiled In Bid To Force France, Greece To Allow GM Crop ...: Without a solid mandate the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, will refer the matter to EU ministers to decide whether France and Greece should fall into line and allow the GM crop to be sown.

[NewsGrabs :: Health Supreme] The Importance of Vitamin B12 - NewsGrabs Thursday 5 March 2009 ...: 21 out of 27 European Member States are not willing to see two of their fellow Member States—Austria and Hungary—forced to lift their bans on the cultivation of two transgenic varieties of GM maize, Monsanto's MON810 and Bayer's T25.

[The Adam Smith Institute Blog] Ship of fools: A scientific report published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded that a type of genetically modified maize banned by France does not pose a risk to animals or other plants. Earlier this year France's provisional ”˜ Higher Authority on GMs' said it had “serious doubts” about the safety of the crop, MON810.

[European Tribune] European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress.: This morning I found myself on a public platform in a Brussels hotel for my first ever European bloggers' conference. As a representative of an "establishment" news organisation, I was half-expecting to be roasted alive.

[FarmPolicy.com] FarmPolicy.com » Blog Archives » Implications of Higher Prices ...: There will always be producers keen to service the European market, but they will demand higher prices for their products, in particular given the context of increasing global demand for food and the increased costs involved in supplying the European market. ”˜An increase in food prices is less problematic in the EU and other high-income countries than in low-income countries, where the poor can spend more than 50% of their income on food,’ explains IPC member Professor Robert Thompson of the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and former Director of Rural Development at the World Bank, ”˜but there is no doubt that it will also be felt in Europe.’”

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