TAG: Grains

France axes tractor fuel hike, cuts red tape to appease angry farmers

PARIS — The French government on Friday promised to cut taxes on agricultural fuel and reduce bureau...

8 months ago

Ukrainians are still waiting for Abramovich’s billions

LONDON — More than £2 billion was promised to Ukrainian war victims thanks to the forced sale of Chelsea Football Club.It was to be the largest nongovernmental aid package Europe had ever seen, but nearly two years on and not a penny from the record-break...

6 months ago

Russia’s friends beg EU to leave frozen assets alone

BRUSSELS — Countries sympathetic to Russia are demanding the EU drop any notion it might have about a wholesale confiscation of Moscow's state assets.Representatives of China, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia are privately pushing the EU to continue resisting p...

6 months ago

New EU rules to curb deforestation add to farmers’ red tape woes

For months, European farmers have been protesting what they see as excessive red tape and environmental restrictions from Brussels. Soon, they’ll have even more forms to fill out. Under new EU rules set to apply from January, European farmers will be requ...

6 months ago

Europe’s soil emergency

BRUSSELS — Extreme weather has made 2024 a ruinous year for European farmers. Charged by climate change, a savage cycle of droughts and floods, winter heat waves and late frosts has devastated agricultural areas. In recent months, cows died of thirst in S...

2 weeks ago

Global money laundering body to consider blacklisting Russia

BRUSSELS — The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the intergovernmental organization that leads the fight against money laundering and terrorism financing, will decide whether to put Russia on its blacklist next week, according to a confidential document...

14 hours ago