No European has run the U.N.’s food agency since 1975.
Now three EU countries are fighting over who gets to try, and the unlikely front-runner is a man his own government barely wanted to nominate.
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Driven to the brink of extinction by hunters and pesticides in the 1970s, the cormorant was rescued thanks to one of the EU's earliest environmental laws.
But 10 EU countries now consider it a menace that needs to be contained. https://t.co/9rgC9hNxSs
Polish President Karol Nawrocki said today that Poland is ready to host American troops withdrawn from Germany and that he would personally lobby Donald Trump to send them east.
https://t.co/RxFBYgUGRm
Bulgaria's caretaker agriculture minister has spent the past months documenting and exposing the country's corruption.
In days, he'll hand over to Rumen Radev's incoming government.
Its first test will be whether it starts prosecuting.
https://t.co/0OraOZ3Gcb
Poland announced today it will file a legal challenge against the EU-Mercosur trade deal at the EU’s top court, in a largely symbolic gesture.
https://t.co/8dnLpulsQW
The number of people in the most catastrophic stages of acute hunger has skyrocketed since 2016, even as the money to address it has shrunk, according to a major United Nations report released today.
https://t.co/yMC81Y2MQX
The EU is eager to move on from Viktor Orbán, but there is one part of his legacy that's likely to continue: his European commissioner, Olivér Várhelyi.
https://t.co/qJBgjaGt99
The EU is making its move to put a European in charge of one of the most powerful jobs in the UN for the first time in half a century.
Whether it can agree on whom that should be is another matter.
https://t.co/ZimNe7S7OX
The European Commission should have granted an NGO access to documents on pesticide approvals, an EU court ruled — the latest setback for the institution in a string of transparency battles.
https://t.co/VofmPWCvZW
The European Commission is set to reject calls for an EU-wide ban on fur farming, opting instead to propose stricter animal-welfare standards for the sector, according to an internal draft communication seen by POLITICO. https://t.co/t10gEg4J0s
Hungary is pressing the EU to suspend tariffs and extra duties on fertilizer imports from Russia and Belarus as the war in Iran threatens to drive up global food prices.
https://t.co/XeD1qEntFy
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned today that a potential Polish exit from the EU is now a “real threat,” accusing nationalist President Karol Nawrocki and right-wing opposition parties of steering the country toward leaving the bloc. https://t.co/OoejEe1nUh
Czech PM Andrej Babiš built his fortune making fertilizer. But that’s just one part of his vast business network.
A POLITICO examination maps the quieter pillar of his business empire — and the regulatory blind spots surrounding it 👇
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The commercial empire of Czech PM Andrej Babiš spans nitrogen-based fertilizers, assisted reproduction, online lingerie stores and more.
Yet in Brussels, no one can answer a simple question:
Which of his companies receive EU money — and how much?
https://t.co/D5NZc1Nyz3
Cindy McCain will step down as executive director of the U.N. World Food Program later this year, citing ongoing health concerns after suffering a mild stroke in October.
https://t.co/kbYZPMgVBA
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš is facing new accusations that he never fully severed ties with his agricultural empire, after publicly promising to do so in order to avoid major conflicts of interest in both Prague and Brussels.
https://t.co/DiStpIl5zc
Thousands of Poles who believed they were long divorced are discovering an unsettling possibility:
They may still be legally married.
https://t.co/zgVxu3xpdc