Hints and tips:
...The bloc’s proposals are not suitable for a “wartime economy” in which farmers should be freed to produce, says Christiane Lambert, co-president of the powerful EU farmers’ union Copa-Cogeca....
...“Today, I recommit to moving mountains to help build more homes,” Harris said....
...Brussels types tell you (accurately) that the union has gone way beyond being a trade bloc, but it certainly doesn’t mean that market access and farm support are an optional extra....
...Tusk welcomed the “mountain of money that we will use well”....
...This could protect perhaps two-thirds of the labour force of a traditional plant, according to the Rocky Mountains Institute. And, in a crunch, creative solutions should not be ruled out....
...It’s the demise of the Soviet Union that dislodged my own family in 1995, in the aftermath of the civil war....
...I stayed at Au Trait d’Union, an underground hotel at Tijma. A roof of sky rests above the courtyard like a living artwork. Passages and bedrooms lead off like badger setts....
...Research from the Rocky Mountain Institute published yesterday argues “there is a clear exponential growth pattern for electric vehicle sales”....
...Wittenbecher’s latest property is a stone-built 19th-century lighthouse on a rocky bluff near the Asturian fishing village of Cudillero....
...Dairy, however, is far more profitable and herd sizes have ballooned since 2015, when EU quotas — introduced in 1984 to end surpluses that led to butter mountains and milk lakes — were scrapped....
...Because of the unpredictable currents and rocky coastline, it has long been notorious among sailors....
...“Before the arrival of the Europeans in the late 1800s, Norway was mostly a land of fishermen and sheep farmers who lived in small communities,” says Maria Lilly....
...The company’s name is less of a clue than the low drone emanating from between the pedals as our 10-strong senior peloton breezes over the rocky, pine-studded foothills of the Taurus Mountains....
...Ministers of EU countries urged Brussels to increase funding for the €60bn-a-year Common Agricultural Policy subsidy scheme in an attempt to quell protests from farmers....
...We like to take a ferry out to rocky Monhegan Island and spend the day hiking, followed by eating fish tacos on the beach at The Fish House....
...Spill-over effect The mountain of Ukrainian grain piling up in Poland and other neighbours is increasingly spilling into other policy areas....
...The consequences would be severe: other farmers in the union would have to accept much lower payments or the EU would need to agree a massive boost in its agricultural budget....
...Poland and Hungary announced their bans at the weekend, with all three countries saying that a mountain of imported Ukrainian grain was depressing prices and causing hardship for their farmers....
...And amid a backlash by industry, farmers and some politicians, it seems environmental legislation is coming under the hatchet....
...Care should be taken traversing the large rocky parts of the trail, but the steep climb is well worth it once you hit Burke’s Lookout, which on a clear day offers views over Melbourne and the bay....
...Von der Leyen’s rocky stint as defence minister gave her enough international exposure to be pushed forward as a surprise compromise candidate for commission president....
...Some years later the Carbon War Room was swallowed up by the Rocky Mountain Institute, which shares the mission to accelerate the clean energy transition. What will happen to all these WSPs?...
...To find it, we hiked up the rocky valley from the nearest road....
...Steps carved into the rocky shoreline lead past a kitchen garden, a pen full of goats, ducks, and chickens, and down to a secret swimming spot, with a handful of deckchairs shaded by bamboo pergolas....
...Wales, a political campaign group, and Farmers’ Union of Wales....
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