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Food for Life

In front | FOCUS
GM Potatoes

The organic lobby is suspicious of GM and biotechnology, but the European Commission wants the know-how.

by Nora S. Stampfl // 23/01/06

FOCUS
Where have your vegetables come from?

Do you speak Eurofood?

Brussels has announced a truly European food policy. They call it ‘From Farm to Fork’. And of course they wish you ‘bon appétit!’

by Alice Desthuilliers // 23/01/06

PANORAMA

A decade of food hysteria

Many EU countries have ordered farmers to keep their chickens indoors. Such action has a familiar ring. The past decade has been marked by crises in the food chain in Europe.

by Silvia Filipe // 23/01/06

Squealer, urges birds to attack

Animal Farm reloaded

A new chapter to Orwell's classic. Animal Farm recruits sickly birds in a Jihad against human-kind.

by Jana Neupauerova // 23/01/06

A Statoil executive poses in front of Ayatollah Ali Khomeini's deadly words

Ahmadinejad's Jihad

As the nuclear crisis deepens, isn't it time that Europe put aside its differences with Iran's opposition party, asks MEP Paulo Casaca.

by Paulo Casaca (MEP) // 19/01/06

ANALYSIS
Barcelona, Gaudí and the revolution (Ilaria La Commare)

Homage to Catalonia

Catalonia’s draft statute changes Spain’s fiscal system.

by Fabio De Franceschi // 17/01/06

FOCUS
The Belgian flag (wikipedia)

Belgium: a linguistic laboratory

Belgium's autonomous regions aren't speaking the same language.

by Sophie Constant // 16/01/06

FOCUS
The less you pay, the more you fly (Marcello)

Low-cost generation

Europe's twenty- and thirty-somethings are enjoying the era of low-cost consumerism, particularly in air travel, telecommunications and food; a spending revolution which is increasing their sense of European identity.

by Ilaria La Commare // 09/01/06

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