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Wholesalers and their suppliers are overwhelmingly in favour of the UK remaining within the European Union (EU) despite frustrations over issues including corruption and overweening red tape from Brussels’ bureaucracy.

As the UK’s June 23 in-out referendum on the EU approaches, minds have been focussing on how the key areas of cost, labour mobility and common regulation might affect the overall wholesale picture – as well as supply segments including food, drinks and tobacco.…

The attack at Brussels Zaventem airport will spark new discussions on the security of landside facilities at European airports as the European Union rolls out reforms from its European Agenda on Security Strategy (EASS).

It was launched last April (2015), and was the latest in a series of security policy developments undertaken by the EU since the September 11 attacks on the USA.…

MEPs have voted to adopt a European Union (EU) regulation harmonising animal welfare rules, with a key goal toughening up the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

The measures will place an increased onus on farmers to practice good husbandry that helps prevent disease outbreaks.…

IF anything is clear about the vital decision that must be made by the British electorate on June 23 about whether their country should stay within or quit the European Union (EU), it is that the pharmaceutical industry – largely – wants the UK to stay put.…

MEAT and livestock sector specialists have warned that a possible British exit from the European Union (EU) could pose a significant threat to the industry in Ireland, should a Brexit restrict trades across the UK’s only land border. Overall Irish meat and livestock exports were worth EUR3.7 billion in 2015, according to the Irish Food Board (Bord Bia).…

The Netherlands meat sector is delighted that its beef and veal industry has won US government approval to export to America, after being blocked since 1998, when Washington imposed a ban on all European Union (EU) beef and veal exports because of BSE.…

Plans to establish a European Union (EU) industry, non-governmental organisation and regulatory advisory group, called an ‘EU Platform on animal welfare’ have been criticised by European farmers’ union Copa-Cogeca. This was despite the support given to the idea at yesterday’s (Monday Feb 15) EU Council of Ministers for agriculture, which debated the plan and released a communiqué saying the platform could boost co-operation between EU member states on animal welfare and broader sharing of information and best practice.…

DETAILS have been released about tariffs to be scrapped regarding food and drink products exported and imported between Vietnam and the European Union (EU) under a trade deal struck last August (2015). The full text has now been released and shows how Vietnam’s emerging market of 89 million people will be opened to the EU’s food manufacturers.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a detailed reform plan designed to choke off the supply of money to terrorist organisations, including amending the recently agreed European Union (EU) fourth anti-money laundering directive (4AMLD). These proposals say that the EU should early this year adopt a blacklist of high risk third countries deemed deficient in fighting money laundering and terrorist financing.…

A COMPREHENSIVE legislative initiative launched by the European Commission on January 28, designed to restrict tax avoidance – especially by multinationals within the European Union (EU) – is likely to be influenced by the raw politics of the upcoming UK in-out referendum on EU membership.…