Senior reporter @POLITICOeurope — mostly agriculture & food 💙💛 Find me on blue ☁️ bsky.app/profile/thisisbarto…
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Jun 11
Almost one in five Israeli-labeled food shipments entering the EU are actually from settlements in the occupied West Bank or from the Golan Heights, according to a new investigation.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
May 31
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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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
May 21
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. politico.eu/article/cormoran…
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Polish President Karol Nawrocki said today that Poland is ready to host American troops withdrawn from Germany and that he would personally lobby Donald Trump to send them east.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
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.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Apr 24
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.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Apr 24
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.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Apr 14
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.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Apr 13
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.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Mar 25
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.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Mar 17
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. politico.eu/article/commissi…
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
#EUPolitics & #UkraineWar: #Hungary presses #EU to scrap tariffs on #Russian and #Belarusian fertilizers, by @thisisbartosz | Politico
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Mar 16
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.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Mar 15
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. politico.eu/article/donald-t…
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Feb 27
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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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Feb 27
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?
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Feb 26
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.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
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.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
Thousands of Poles who believed they were long divorced are discovering an unsettling possibility:
They may still be legally married.
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Bartosz Brzeziński retweeted
As the Polish government tries to undo controversial court reforms, long-settled divorces are being thrown into doubt.
And that is handing fresh ammunition to the opposition.
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