Europe

According to the latest production cost and producer price calculations in the organic sector, producers in Germany received an average 55.55 cents/kg of organic milk in the accounting year 2023/24

On October 4th, the majority of EU member states supported the European Commission’s (EC) proposal to increase tariffs on electric vehicles imported from China for the next five years.

In August 2024, new EU car registrations saw a sharp decrease (-18.3%) with negative results across the region’s four major markets: double-digit losses were witnessed in Germany (-27.8%), France (-24.3%), and Italy (-13.4%), with the Spanish market declining by 6.5%.

A continuous trend of shrinking market share for battery electric cars in the EU sends an extremely worrying signal to industry and policymakers.

The "Inhouse Farming - Feed & Food Show" from November 12 to 15, 2024, in Hanover, Germany, will showcase innovative inhouse farming concepts with a focus on the future of food production. The event, organized by the German Agricultural Society (DLG),

Farm-gate milk prices and subsidies are still not enough for cost-covering milk production.

In the ongoing debate about food security for a growing global population, animal feed has become a critical topic. Future priorities will focus on feedstuffs that do not compete directly with human food.

This year’s most-recent General Assembly of the European Milk Board asbl focused on the young generation of farmers. Dairy-farmer delegations from across Europe discussed how to make the sector profitable once again, in order to attract young people towards agricultural production.

French President Emmanuel Macron calls on Europe to change its economic policy, stating that there will be no more cheap energy from Russia. The French leader, who has assumed the role of the leader of the pan-European, against the background of the deteriorating situation in Germany, shows that he has certain reasons for this.

On the last evening of his life, Plato listened to music – a slave flute player from Thrace played to him. Dying of a fever, the philosopher criticizes the flutist for her lack of a sense of rhythm.