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Europe’s last summer before the Russian winter – POLITICO
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Soak up the summer rays while you can — a full-blown Russian winter is heading toward Europe.
Even as fighting continues to rage in Ukraine, the war is already making itself felt across the Continent, in the form of rising food prices, fears of gas shortages and worries about the economy.
And with Russian President Vladimir Putin showing readiness to use food, fuel and fertilizers as weapons of war against Western democracies who
How Romania flouts EU ban on bee-killing insecticides – POLITICO
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Nearly a decade after the European Union first restricted the use of seeds coated with bee-killing insecticides, Romania’s honeybees are still feeling the sting.
In one of the EU’s honey-production capitals, the government has been relying on the banned seeds to prop up its lucrative cash crop exports, something NGOs and beekeepers denounce as an egregious and routine violation of EU laws that is endangering one of the country’s most ancient trades and
A self-defeating G7 fails on all fronts – POLITICO
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ZUGSPITZE, Germany — If they need reminding about the urgency of climate change and their role in stopping it, all G7 leaders needed to do was look up.
High above the opulent Schloss Elmau, the resort in which the leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies have held earnest (and not so earnest) discussions over the past three days, Germany’s largest — soon to be last — glacier sits in a saddle at
The Great Organic-Food Fraud | The New Yorker
Glen Borgerding met Randy Constant in the late nineteen-nineties, when landowners in northern Missouri hired them to help set up an organic soybean farm. Borgerding, an agronomist from Minnesota, took soil samples and made recommendations about fertilizer and weed control; Constant, a Missouri native who had a day job as a regional sales manager for the Pfister seed company, ran the farm’s day-to-day operations. By then, Borgerding had spent more than a decade in organic agriculture. Constant had not, but