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Thursday 11 December 2008
By Thomas on Thursday 11 December 2008,
The dioxin contamination of Irish meat was widely reported in France
earlier this week, but then vanished off the shelves as quickly as ham and
sausages in supermarkets.
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Thursday 13 November 2008
By Thomas on Thursday 13 November 2008,
The French state will spend “dozens of millions of euros” on
extragovernment aid for farmers in
2009, minister for agriculture Michel Barnier said Wednesday as demonstrations
spread across the country.
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Thursday 25 September 2008
By Thomas on Thursday 25 September 2008,
French minister for agriculture Michel Barnier,
who invited his EU counterparts on Monday and Tuesday to discuss the future of
the CAP after 2013, knew what to expect. “As our British colleague put it, it
will be a long road”, Barnier said after the meeting.
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Thursday 4 September 2008
By Thomas on Thursday 4 September 2008,
As uncertainty over milk pricing grips French dairy farmers, their
output has fallen back to usual levels.
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Thursday 3 July 2008
By Thomas on Thursday 3 July 2008,
The French presidency of the European Union began
with a head-on clash between France's president Nicolas Sarkozy and EU
commissionner for trade Peter Mandelson this week.
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Thursday 8 May 2008
By Thomas on Thursday 8 May 2008,
France's minister for agriculture and fisheries Michel Barnier, who is
scheduled to visit Ireland this Friday, will probably receive a warmer welcome
from the Irish farming sector than European Commisssion president Jose Manuel
Barroso experienced last month.
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Thursday 10 April 2008
By Thomas on Thursday 10 April 2008,
French milk production looks set to ease after an unprecedented surge in late
2007 and early 2008 – but the big question now is when?
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Saturday 5 January 2008
By Thomas on Saturday 5 January 2008,
The year 2007 has ended with the news that 12 per cent more money made its
way into French farmers' pockets than in 2006 – an average figure that hides
massive discrepancies between different enterprises.
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Saturday 10 November 2007
By Thomas on Saturday 10 November 2007,
The recent decision by French president Nicolas Sarkozy to ban the sowing of
genetically modified (GM) crops until new legislation is introduced next year
shows a shift in government attitude on the issue.
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Thomas Hubert est un journaliste pigiste bilingue basé à Kinshasa, RD Congo depuis le premier trimestre 2009 et auparavant à Paris. Ce blog présente une sélection de ses articles publiés par divers médias et des notes sur la vie quotidienne à Kinshasa.