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Ireland Records Third-lowest Inflation Rate In Eurozone

Ireland had the third-lowest annual inflation rate in the eurozone at 0.3% in January 2018, according to new figures by the European Union. The EU&rsquo...

EU Amends SMP Interventions To Support Markets

The European Council has introduced a temporary quantitative limitation for buying-in skimmed milk powder (SMP) at a fixed price at zero tonnes for 2018 as...

EU Offers Greater Beef Access To Mercosur

The EU has offered to open up its beef market to the South American trade bloc Mercosur in exchange for greater market access at ongoing talks in Brussels....

EU-Mercosur 'Cars-For-Beef' Trade Deal Talks Underway

Ministerial teams from the EU and the South American trade bloc Mercosur are meeting in Brussels this week to negotiate a long-anticipated and large-scale...

Irish MEP Welcomes EU Plastic Waste Bill

An Irish MEP has welcomed the recent launch of an EU strategy which aims to recycle 55% of plastic packaging waste and ban landfilling separately collected...

€3 Million EU Funding Provided To FoodCloud To Help Marginalised

The social enterprise FoodCloud Hubs has announced it is partnering with the Department of Social Protection (DPS) to implement an EU programme to provide...

New EU Regulations For Nutritional Foodstuffs Now In Effect

From 20 July 2016, Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 (or the Food for Specific Groups Regulation) will repeal and replace Directive 2009/39/EC on foodstuffs inte...

HSA Launches Liquitab Inspection Campaign

The Health and Safety Authority has launched an inspection campaign to make sure that retailer and distributors are only selling liquid laundry detergent c...