Podcast Selection

Agrifood podcast: A LEAKy couple of weeks

This week, EURACTIV discusses a leaked draft of EU member states’ compromise text on the industrial emissions directive, and they hear from EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski for his take on the controversies surrounding the…

Agrifood Podcast: Tractor takeover, pest threat, baby shark

This week, EURACTIV’s Agrifood news team reports from a large-scale Flemish farmers’ protest in Brussels and Natasha Foote speaks with Sybren Vos, a team leader at the European Food Safety Agency’s Plant Health division, to learn more about…

Agrifood Podcast: Fisheries package, CAP third pillar

This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team walks you through the Commission’s fisheries package which includes the ambition to ban bottom trawling from all marine protected areas (MPAs) by 2030, and EURACTIV’s Paula Andrés talks to Enrico…

Agrifood Podcast: European Parliament’s pesticide LEAK and new toys

This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team brings you the latest from the European Parliament’s front of the EU’s pesticide framework revision. We comment on the leaked draft document put forward by Austrian Green MEP and Parliament’s…

Agrifood podcast: EU agri ministers get angsty & agri-trade talks

This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team walks you through all the goings-on of the first meeting of EU agriculture ministers under the Swedish Presidency, including the latest on agri-trade with Ukraine and a push from ministers…

Agrifood Podcast: Ukraine trade liberalisation, Chinese fisheries, save the bees

The one-year scheme to suspend import duty on all agricultural products from Ukraine is coming to an end. Now, the Commission is reconsidering the arrangement. EURACTIV Germany’s Julia Dahm spoke to EU agriculture Commissioner Janusz…

Agrifood Podcast: 2023 foretaste, struggling restaurants & end of livestock

This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team brings you a sneak peek of what 2023 has in store when it comes to the EU agri-food agenda. In our weekly focuses, EURACTIV France’s reporter Hugo Struna spoke to…

Fertilisers ‘strategy’, production slump, Dutch farmers’ protests

EURACTIV’s agrifood team brings you the latest on the Commission’s plans for a fertilisers communication, and why this falls short of the strategy called for by stakeholders and we explore how the EU’s plans to…

State of the Union, fertiliser crisis, deforestation

This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team comments on the agri-food parts of the State of the Union address delivered by Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and we question agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski about the current…

Agrifood Podcast: Droughts, derogations & dirty deals

This week in our last agrifood podcast of the season, EURACTIV’s agrifood team looks ahead at the key topics of the summer, including the impact that drought is having, and will continue to have, on…

Agrifood podcast: Pesticide regulation, nature restoration, insect tasting

This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team talks you through the EU’s pesticide framework revision and the 12th World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial meeting. We also spoke to Simonas Šatūnas, head of cabinet of the EU’s environment…

Agrifood Podcast: EU-Turkey agri-trade, Crop rotation debate, Deforestation Law

Last week EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski met with Turkish Agricultural Minister, Vahit Kirişçi, on the first high-level meeting to strengthen the EU-Turkey agri-trade. Europe's food policy will also have to deal with the Commission’s…