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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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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.
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.
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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.
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.
Eleven years ago, a little-known Colombian diplomat pushed 193 countries to sign the Sustainable Development Goals.
Today the biggest signer is gone, no one has moved to replace it, and an Ebola outbreak in Congo is showing what that costs.
Brussels' answer to a looming fertilizer crisis is to make more use of cow dung.
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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Brussels’ plan, due Tuesday, bets on manure. The fast tools that could have helped farmers were too politically toxic to touch.
Celebrities and catwalks suggest a revival. Inside the EU, officials are weighing whether the industry should survive at all.
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Europe lost the race for the U.N.’s top food job to China in 2019. Now it’s trying again. Just one problem: it can’t agree on a nominee.
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“Severe hunger has doubled, and famine has been declared in two places. The same countries are caught in a devastating cycle of hunger — fueled by conflict and compounded by inadequate funding,” says food aid chief Cindy McCain.
The U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals pledge, among other things, to eradicate poverty, ensure access to clean energy, and end the epidemics of infectious diseases like Ebola by 2030.
Caretaker minister Ivan Hristanov livestreamed police raids and surfaced schemes worth hundreds of millions. The incoming government, elected on a similar anti-corruption pledge, faces its first test.
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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Health Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi’s job looks secure, thanks to EU traditions and positive reviews from colleagues.
