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Food & Beverage
Plans to label UK homegrown food sparks ministerial row
...The business secretary set out a series of conditions before her department would agree to a public consultation on the labels, including a “quantitative analysis of the impact of this policy on food prices...
February 21, 2024
UK agriculture
Limits placed on removal of land from food production in England
...At present, about 63 per cent of land in England is used for agriculture, according to official data. The UK produces roughly 60 per cent of the food it consumes, according to the government....
March 25, 2024
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
Stephen Bush
Little good can come of Starmer’s green U-turn
...director, and Matt Faulding, the Parliamentary Labour party secretary and the aide who more than any other has shaped the incoming class of Labour MPs thanks to his careful management of selections....
February 9, 2024
David Willer
To save the oceans, start eating ‘naked clams’
...The writer is a fellow of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge and a member of the Department of Zoology Human health thrives on a diet rich in fish....
April 3, 2024
Climate change
Record ocean warming adds to dangers for native fish species, environment chief warns
...Greece, as host country for the Our Ocean conference, launched as a US state department initiative by John Kerry in 2014, this week announced an expansion of its marine protected areas in the Ionian and...
April 18, 2024
Letter
Letter: What a new temple tells us about a ‘secular’ India
...In case there was any doubt about this, it should be laid to rest by what Nripendra Mishra (a former principal secretary to the prime minister) told the FT, that “every citizen of India” — and he goes on...
January 19, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
Labour Party UK
Labour vows to be ‘laser-focused’ on net zero despite £28bn U-turn
...Starmer announced the U-turn this month after a drawn out period of internal arguments over whether the pledge, made in 2021 when borrowing rates were close to zero, was still affordable at a time of higher...
February 27, 2024
Europe Express
How farming outrage will crash another EU leaders’ summit Premium content
...What to watch today Summit of EU leaders in Brussels. Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg hosts a meeting with Slovenia’s Prime Minister Robert Golob....
March 21, 2024
UK agriculture
UK government sets out bigger post-Brexit subsidies for farmers
...The environment department said 8,000 farmers had last year applied to one of the new regime’s subsidies, the Sustainable Farming Incentive, far below the 82,000 eligible....
January 4, 2024
Brexit
Brexit red tape costs Scottish salmon producers millions, says trade body
...“We fully recognise the importance of Scottish salmon to the UK economy and are committed to supporting the sector,” the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said....
March 28, 2024
Europe Express
Why Europe’s farmers are still on the warpath Premium content
...“It needs to be translated immediately into measures favourable for farmers on the ground,” said Patrick Pagani, secretary-general of the farm lobby group Copa Cogeca....
February 23, 2024
Europe Express
Inside the dissent roiling Lagarde’s unhappy ECB Premium content
...Context: European farmers have taken to the streets with increasing anger this month to protest against EU policies governing agriculture, land and the bloc’s response to climate change....
January 25, 2024
News in-depthLabour Party UK
Labour’s green U-turn: how Starmer dropped £28bn ‘albatross’
...The substance and style of Labour’s biggest U-turn for years demonstrated the ascendancy of cautious Blairites inside Britain’s main opposition party, as the green prosperity plan joined a long list of radical...
February 8, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: Will Labour’s green U-turn weaken Starmer?
...Jim PickardThere have been an awful lot of U-turns....
February 9, 2024
Europe Express
How diplomacy succeeded in sending the first aid ship to Gaza Premium content
...And below, our agriculture sleuth brings you details of the latest Brussels attempt to appease outraged farmers....
March 14, 2024
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
Rare earths
The rare earths mine becoming a bellwether for US minerals policy
...The US Department of Defense stores critical minerals in the National Defense Stockpile, but its value has dropped from $9bn in 1989 to less than $1bn, or below 0.3 per cent of annual demand globally, as...
April 21, 2024
Brexit
Small businesses face punitive charges from new Brexit border fees
...“We do not accept that government has consulted with the sector,” CCF chief executive Phil Pluck wrote in a letter to environment secretary Steve Barclay earlier this month, adding that the government had...
April 22, 2024
News updates from February 29: US PCE inflation falls to 2.4%, Putin warns of wider conflict over Ukraine
UK culture secretary vows to legislate for new football watchdog before next election
...UK culture secretary Lucy Frazer told the Financial Times Business of Football Summit on Thursday that her department was “making good progress” and that legislation would be brought to parliament “very...
February 29, 2024
Foreign aid
Labour explores stopping ‘raids’ on UK overseas aid budget
...In addition to the Home Office, the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero have used ODA funds in recent years....
April 20, 2024
InterviewUK agriculture
Farmers’ leader slams post-Brexit agricultural policy
...environment secretaries since the UK voted to leave the EU in 2016....
December 17, 2023
Europe Express
Farmers on the march Premium content
...The peasant agitation affected seventeen departments, extending from the Belgian frontier in the north to the Mediterranean. Word for word, this report could have been written in 2024....
February 17, 2024
UK trade
UK halts talks with Canada on post-Brexit trade deal
...Former UK trade department official Allie Renison, now at consultancy SEC Newgate, said the decision to suspend the talks was a signal that the UK was prepared to stand its ground on trade issues....
January 26, 2024
Letter
Letter: Storing carbon in soil is not a climate panacea
...Second, the push towards regenerative agriculture must consider the impact on crop yields, as part of a more comprehensive approach to land use — otherwise agricultural land might expand to make up for the...
January 26, 2024
German politics
Protest against German vice-chancellor shocks political class
...Farmers’ organisations staged loud protests and parked dozens of tractors by the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, triggering a government U-turn on Thursday....
January 5, 2024
UK Government
UK taxpayer footed £15,000 bill in science secretary’s extremism libel case
...The payment to Professor Kate Sang followed “established precedent under multiple administrations” that ministers received legal support in matters related to their official duties, the Department of Science...
March 6, 2024

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