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European Parliament Targets Dual-Quality Consumer Products

The European Parliament has recommended several measures to tackle 'dual-quality', identically-branded consumer products in the EU. These include cross-...

EU Clears €3.4 bn P&G Deal For German Merck's Consumer Health Business Unit

EU antitrust regulators have approved Procter & Gamble's €3.4 billion ($3.9 billion) acquisition of Merck KGaA's consumer health unit, saying...

Crop Damage Mounts For EU Farmers After Torrid Summer

European farmers are counting the cost of a summer heatwave that has shrunk cereal harvests and shrivelled pastures, leaving some farms struggling to survi...

EU Households Waste 17 Billion Kgs Of Fruits And Vegetables Per Year

Households in the European Union generate around 35 kilograms of fresh fruit and vegetable waste per person per year, 14 kilograms of which is avoidab...

EU Commissioner Suggests Broad Cuts To Tariffs With US

The European Union's budget commissioner suggested on Wednesday that the bloc would be ready to discuss mutual tariff cuts with the United States across a...

Britain's WSTA Calls On Government To Urgently Define Brexit Withdrawal

The Wine and Spirit Trade Association, which represents the wine and spirit industries in the UK, has called on the British government to urgently define t...

Euro Area International Trade Surplus Valued At €16.5bn

The value of goods exports from the euro area (EA19) to the rest of the world stood at €189.6 billion in May 2018, according to figures from Eurostat,...

Two-Fifths Of EU Land Area Used For Farming, Study Finds

A little over 171 million hectares of land in the European Union (EU) is used for agricultural production - about 40% of the EU's total land area, a new st...