12/03/2010 12:11
Representatives of the main Mediterranean ports met in Marseille on March 10-11, in the framework of the European Med Programme, with the aim of strengthening the role of ports and enhance sea transportation of goods. ... Read More
11/03/2010 15:36
The Italian organic brand expands to Greece. Following the positive results achieved last year in the Greek market, at mid-March a campaign will start focusing mainly on Athens and Thessaloniki. ... Read More
10/03/2010 11:09
Dropping export figures for Andalusian vegetables: -5.20% in 2009 over the previous year, that is a decrease by 8.70% in value. France and Germany keep the lead of Andalusia's customer countries. ... Read More
09/03/2010 16:55
Italian land surfaces devoted to strawberry cultivation decreased by 7% in 2010 compared to last year, accounting for 3500 hectares in the whole Country. The decline, however, is in line with yield reduction in Spain as well. ... Read More

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The EU-Morocco summit held in Granada on March 7 ended with a further commitment by both parties in order to create a common economic area in order to enhance the liberalization of trade and services between Europe and Morocco. ... Read More
Promotional campaigns and private labels at cheaper prices in traditional supermarkets prove to be successful in Austria, against the price competition with discount chains, losing their primacy in the Country. ... Read More
Mercabarna and the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce have signed an agreement of cooperation: the Spanish market will advise the Egyptian municipality on the modernisation of its wholesale markets. ... Read More
The first ever annual loss in 2009 was reported by the 105-year-old Danish shipping group AP Moller-Maersk. Woes for the container industry are set to persist in 2010, they warn. ... Read More


LETTER OF THE WEEK
GMOs, EUROPE IS DIVIDED
Publication date: 2010-03-09
We were right. In Brussels, after the Barroso-2 Commission took charge, something around GMOs was going on, something big: that is, the turn in favor of GMOs - as this is the meaning of the Commission's green light on Tuesday, 2nd of March to the cultivation of the genetically modified (GM) "Amflora" potato produced by BASF for industrial purposes (paper as well can be produced from its starch). What does this mean? This is not the end of organic farming, this is actually the beginning of a major confrontation and a momentous turning point for European agriculture. We look forward to knowing how many and which EU Countries will apply the "safeguard clause", that means blocking Amflora outside their borders. From ... read more
Sentence of the Week

"Westerners have curiously limited the history of the world by grouping the little they knew about the expansion of human civilization around Israel, Greece and Rome. The greater part of the globe, with cultures that were different from those of the ancient Greeks and Romans, but not less civilized, has long remained unknown to those who have written the history of their little world with the idea of writing the history of the world." (Henri Cordier, French historian, New Orleans 1849 - Paris, 1925)


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