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Has competitiveness taken precedence over sustainability in the EU?
The European Union’s sustainability (ESG) objectives have been a high priority in recent years. The aim of sustainability regulations is to ensure that companies take environmental and social impacts into...
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GKI Analysis: Has competitiveness taken precedence over sustainability in the EU?
The European Union’s sustainability (ESG) objectives have been a high priority in recent years. The aim of sustainability regulations is to ensure that companies take environmental and social impacts into...
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The EU has approved a new feed additive: this is how L-arginine affects animal health
The European Union has authorized the use of L-arginine as a feed additive, which offers new opportunities for a balanced amino acid supply for farm animals, according to reports from...
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EU restricts cash payments
The European Union will cap the amount of cash payments from 2027: according to the new rule, a maximum of ten thousand euros – or more than four million forints...
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The EU is looking for new markets for the food industry
The loss of the American market poses a serious challenge for the European Union’s food exports, which is why the search for new trade opportunities has become more urgent than...
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The EU is investing €140 million to introduce generative artificial intelligence in the agri-food industry
The European Commission has launched four new calls for proposals under the Digital Europe programme, worth a total of €140 million, to support the uptake of artificial intelligence (AI), develop...
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EU poultry exports increase
According to the European Commission, the EU27’s poultry exports increased by 9% to 2 million tonnes in 2024 compared to the previous year. The EU’s largest target countries were the...
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EU directive: next year we will be able to find out how much our colleagues earn
The EU’s Pay Transparency Directive requires member states to comply with the objectives of the new pay transparency directive by 7 June 2026. This means that companies operating in the...
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GKI analysis: Productivity in trade has grown 6 times faster since 2010 than in manufacturing
In the third part of our series examining labor productivity in national economic sectors, we take trade after manufacturing and construction. In 2023, trade accounted for an average of 11.3%...
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EU Commissioner: Europe must be positioned in the context of the paradigm shift in the global trading system
Member states must agree on how to position Europe in what could be described as a paradigm shift in the global trading system, the European Commission’s Commissioner for Trade and...
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KSH: the foreign trade surplus in goods was 1.1 billion euros in February
The foreign trade surplus in goods was 1.1 billion euros in February; the adjusted volume of exports was 0.9 percent, while imports were 0.1 percent lower than in January, the...
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EU Commissioner: European Commission’s agriculture and food roadmap guarantees EU food security
The agriculture and food roadmap adopted by the European Commission in February will ensure EU food security – and sovereignty, said Christophe Hansen, EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Safety,...
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Sándor Farkas: area-based support should remain in the seven-year EU budget after 2028
Hungary would like both the currently valid area-based support and the support provided under rural development programmes to remain in the EU budget period after 2028, the Parliamentary State Secretary...
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EU Commission gives the green light to Alcohol-Free Organic Wine
Organic winemakers will now be allowed to de-alcoholize their wine without losing its organic certification. The EU Commission has decided to amend the EU Organic Regulation accordingly. German Minister of...
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More than 130 organisations call for EU Action Plan for Plant-based Foods by 2026
More than 130 groups representing farmers, health professionals, consumers, animal welfare and environmental interests have written a letter to European Commissioner for Agriculture and Food, Christophe Hansen, urging him to...
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European farmers must be protected
European farmers, the daily bread of European citizens, must be protected – the Minister of Agriculture emphasized on Monday on the M1 current affairs channel. According to István Nagy, this...
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EU agreement reached to reduce food and textile waste
EU member states and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on new rules to reduce food and textile waste. These would reduce waste from food processing and manufacturing...
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27 EU agriculture ministers: a separate agricultural budget is needed, with regionally based subsidies!
European farmers, the daily bread of European citizens, must be protected – the Minister of Agriculture emphasized on Monday on the M1 current affairs channel. According to István Nagy, this...
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The European Commission has set out a roadmap to improve the competitiveness of agriculture and the food industry
The European Commission published a roadmap on Wednesday to improve the competitiveness and attractiveness of the agricultural and food sector by simplifying regulations, promoting innovative solutions and promoting digitalisation. According...
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The EU will take firm action against measures that hinder free trade
The European Commission considers US President Donald Trump’s trade policy based on the principle of “reciprocity” a step in the wrong direction, does not see the increase in export tariffs...
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The productivity of Hungarian companies is worse than anywhere else in the EU
According to a recent analysis by GKI Economic Research Ltd., Hungary’s manufacturing exports showed significantly lower growth than those of the countries in the region between 2010 and 2023. While...
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EU-US tariff war: tariffs are bad for companies, even worse for consumers
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has expressed regret over new US tariffs that are putting a significant burden on European steel and aluminium exports. In a statement on...
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EU mobilises €200 billion in investment to develop artificial intelligence
The European Commission has launched the InvestAI initiative, which will invest €200 billion in the development of artificial intelligence (AI). The initiative was announced by Ursula von der Leyen, President...
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Eurozone economy stagnated in the fourth quarter
Contrary to analysts’ expectations, the eurozone economy stagnated in the fourth quarter of 2024, Eurostat’s latest report revealed. Preliminary analyses had projected growth of just 0.1%, but even this slight...
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The EU has approved another alternative protein source: flour beetle larva powder
The European Union has taken another step towards the introduction of alternative protein sources: on 20 January it authorised the marketing of powdered larvae of the UV-treated common mealworm (Tenebrio...
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A general decrease characterizes the producer price of slaughter pigs
According to AKI PÁIR data, the producer price of domestically produced slaughter pigs, excluding VAT and transport costs, was 772 forints/kilogram of carcass warm weight in December 2024, a 10...
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All European trade must prepare for Trump’s tariffs
Europe must prepare for potential trade tariffs from new US President Donald Trump, warned Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), at the World Economic Forum in Davos....
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Banning ‘forever chemicals’: EU moves to restrict PFASs
The European Commission is planning to introduce a new proposal aimed at a broad ban on the use of so-called “perfluoroalkyl substances” (PFAS) in consumer products. The measure aims to...
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EU and Mexico conclude negotiations on revised trade agreement
The European Commission and Mexico concluded negotiations on Friday to revise the common trade agreement that entered into force 25 years ago. The new agreement, the Commission said, will provide...
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Orange prices up 10 percent
According to a December report by the European Commission, the EU’s orange production could increase by 8 percent to 6.18 million tonnes in 2024 compared to a year earlier. According...
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