Attempts to overhaul the EU's bridle systems for food and fe are still bogg down through disagreement and may start running short of time unles a compromise is forged pretty soon EU agriculture ministers meeting in Brussels this week were still not seeing judgment to eye with the European Commission (or with each other.

Attempts to overhaul the EU's bridle systems for food and fe are still bogg down through disagreement and may start running short of time unles a compromise is forged pretty soon

EU agriculture ministers meeting in Brussels this week were still not seeing judgment to eye with the European Commission (or with each other, to a more limited extent) through the whole extent of two key issues in the Commission's proposal for a regulation for aliment and feed controls, which has not to this time received its first reading in the European Parliament.

Among the ideas in the proposal are a harmonisation of plans for ...