GM crops: still no EU compromise

The EU member states still not reached a compromise about the proposal, which would allow that individual Member States to decide to gave permission, or to ban the production of genetically modified (GM) crops in some zones of their territory.

According to current Minister for Environment the Danish Ida Auken, the majority of the member states consider the right to have a national responsibility on this issue as necessary. Seven Member States (other sources say Germany, France, Great Britain, Belgium, Ireland, Slovakia, Bulgaria), however, could not accept the text being discussed.  (Veres Béla, MTI)