Environment
EU turf cutting case could 'unravel years of work' - MEP
An Irish MEP has voiced concerns about the potential impact of a turf cutting case being taken by the European...
Environment
An Irish MEP has voiced concerns about the potential impact of a turf cutting case being taken by the European...
Rural Life
MEP Luke Ming Flanagan has called on Fine Gael MEPs to ensure amendments tabled to a report on defective concrete...
Agri Politics
An independent Irish MEP has said that he will not vote in favour of the proposed EU Nature Restoration Law...
Rural Life
Thousands of Irish homeowners impacted by defective mica concrete have been “given a lot of hope” by the European Parliament...
Agri-Business
An Irish MEP has said that improving fairness in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payment system will increase public support...
CAP / Schemes
MEP Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan has called on the government of Ireland to “immediately publish” the observation letter sent by the...
Agri Politics
The Irish government is seeking “unprecedented powers” in the negotiation of the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), to force farmers...
Agri Politics
“If you are a beef farmer and you are looking at him trying to import 100,000t of untraceable beef from...
Agri Politics
“A minister without a mandate is currently pushing for an end to the convergence of farm payments.” This is according...
CAP / Schemes
Numerous MEP members of the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee grilled the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Janusz Wojciechowski over...
Agri Politics
The EU’s Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee will ask for an extension to the period to lodge an objection to...
Agri Politics
The “dysfunctional nature” of the beef industry in Ireland must be addressed from top to bottom if it is to...
Beef
An Irish MEP has raised fears that the measures included in the EU’s regulations on the €100 million aid fund...
Beef
An Irish MEP has called the Mercosur deal an “abomination” and argued that Europe already has access to the most...
Agri Politics
In a recent meeting with nominee for the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan...
Agri Politics
The recently announced draft EU/Mercosur trade deal has been described as “the ultimate hypocrisy and betrayal of farmers and the...
Agri Politics
The ‘draft implementing act’ for the EU’s half of the €100 million beef fund is “targeting” the national suckler herd,...
Beef
Farmers’ thinking and expectations are being “conditioned” by the “drip feed of information” on the €100 million beef aid fund,...