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An early Christmas gift? New ministers responsible for health-related portfolios take office on 24 December.

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The new minister will certainly have his work cut out for him.

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Written by Ivana Katsarova.

Although origin labelling for food cannot be directly linked to a product’s intrinsic quality, consumers are increasingly interested in local food systems and in short supply chains. While the easiest way to convey origin information is through labelling, European Union (EU) law requires the display of such information only for a limited number of food products. EU consumers and consumer groups have long advocated greater transparency on food product origins.

In force since December 2014, the EU regulation on the provision of food information to consumers updated and harmonised food labelling requirements, set harmonised rules for the presentation of allergen information and tightened up the rules to prevent misleading practices. The regulation allows EU countries to adopt additional national measures concerning the mandatory labelling of food products, as long as these are justified by reasons specifically defined in the regulation.

Indicating the country of origin is currently mandatory for certain food products, such as fresh fruit and vegetables, fishery products, honey, olive oil, eggs, beef and beef products, unprocessed meat of swine, sheep, goat and poultry and the primary ingredient of a food when it differs from the origin given for the product as a whole. In the absence of EU rules, some EU countries have enacted national legislation requiring mandatory origin labelling for certain categories of foods.

As part of its ‘farm to fork’ strategy, adopted in 2020, the Commission intended to revise existing rules to extend the mandatory indication of origin to more categories of food products. However, such a proposal never emerged, and if or when it will be put forward remains unclear.

Read the complete briefing on ‘Food origin labelling: Developments and issues‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.

Brace yourselves.

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Less 'green' and more 'clean'.

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Lawrence Gostin, professor of global health at Georgetown University in Washington said that Trump planned to exit WHO from day one or very early in his administration.

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"For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the USA feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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Ukraine's assessment of losses suffered by Pyongyang was higher than that of South Korea, which last week reported some 100 North Koreans killed with another 1,000 wounded in the Kursk region.

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The pro-European coalition government includes Ciolacu's Social Democrats, centre-right Liberals and the ethnic Hungarian Party UDMR.

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To understand the consequences of the fall of Berlin's coalition government, host Evi Kiorri speaks to our Berlin-based reporter Nick Alipour.

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Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić accused Albanian PM Albin Kurti of attempting to "remove the Serbian List as the only political opponent".

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Calls for a 2030 emissions reduction target of at least 65 per cent, matched with halving of energy consumption by 2040 and phasing out fossil fuels by 2030. Ambitious or impossible?

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The Polish government has allocated over €215 million to support investments in healthcare facilities in smaller towns and rural areas.

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The government is only new by name.

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For some time, some western politicians and press have repeatedly hyped up the so-called Chinese "overcapacity", and extended such accusation from new energy to more sectors, claiming that China exports excess capacity and hits the global market. In fact, this argument is abusing the concept of "overcapacity" and goes against both the objective facts and rules of market economy.

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Three weeks in, and still no white smoke.

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A car attack at the Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has left five people dead and more than 200 injured. The detained suspect is a 50-year-old psychiatrist from Saudi Arabia who had been granted asylum in Germany. He was known to the authorities as a fierce critic of Islam and for having made threats of violence, among other things. Europe's press discusses the ramifications of this act of terrorism.