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Food and gastronomy

Economic sanctions: ‘Russia launches trade war with EU and US’

In response to sanctions imposed over the Ukraine crisis, Russia has banned food imports from the European Union and the United States in a move […]

8 August 2014 – VoxEurop The Scotsman
Denmark: ‘Thorning calling for pork in all kindergartens’

Kindergartens and hospitals must continue to serve pork roasts and meatballs because “they are part of Danish culinary tradition,” says Denmark’s prime minister, Social Democrat […]

12 August 2013 – Presseurop Jyllands-Posten
Netherlands: ‘Do you look Asian? Then no milk powder’

“To ensure that customers are not faced with shelves empty of milk powder, we will only sell a single pack to those we do not […]

10 July 2013 – Presseurop NRC Handelsblad
Food: Nearly 5% of EU beef is horsemeat

"Horsemeat with anti-inflammatories," sums up Spanish daily El Mundo referring to the results of tests run last month in the European Union on samples of […]

17 April 2013 – Presseurop El Mundo
Poland: ‘Slovaks have a run-in with us’

Slovak and Czech authorities are running a “black PR campaign” against Polish food, says a government source quoted by the daily. They publicly stress […]

27 March 2013 – Presseurop Gazeta Wyborcza
Food: Hard to swallow

8 March 2013 – NRC Handelsblad (Amsterdam)
Food: Romania struggles to swallow horsemeat scandal

Romania, wrongly named as the source of the horsemeat food fraud, has suffered more than most in the ready-meals scandal. Having been dealt a severe blow, the country’s agriculture industry now has to pick up the pieces and regain Europe's trust.

27 February 2013 – Revista 22 (Bucharest)
Food: ‘EU: Greater demand for clearer meat labelling’

With the horsemeat scandal in full swing, “France, Germany and Austria want more effective food traceability," reports the daily. In the run-up to a meeting of […]

25 February 2013 – Presseurop Der Standard
Germany: ‘Organic egg fraud’

Prosecutors in Oldenburg are investigating 150 companies in the state of Lower Saxony and 50 more elsewhere in the Federal Republic amid claims eggs were […]

25 February 2013 – Presseurop Die Welt
Article: Food for thought

"Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you what you are." How many Europeans today could answer the question posed in the 19th Century […]

19 February 2013 – Presseurop
Food: ‘Guaranteed horse’

Cheap lasagne containing horsemeat instead of beef is only the tip of the iceberg. Health authorities and distributors are now finding traces of horsemeat in all […]

19 February 2013 – Presseurop Die Welt
Food: Noah’s burger boat

18 February 2013 – The Times (London)
Food: Close shave

15 February 2013 – L’Echo (Brussels)
Food safety: ‘Meat: from fraud to health warning’

“There are now two horsemeat affairs in Europe,” points out the Belgian daily, following the discovery of traces of phenylbutazone, an anti-inflammatory that is not […]

15 February 2013 – Presseurop Le Soir
Food: Perils of supermarket cost-cutting machines

The switching of horsemeat for beef is a spectacular signal that a limit has been reached, says columnist John Gapper.

14 February 2013 – Financial Times (London)
Food: ‘Warning horse’

The scandal of horsemeat in frozen food supposed to contain beef has arrived in Germany. In North Rhine-Westphalia, authorities are conducting DNA tests on lasagne […]

14 February 2013 – Presseurop Frankfurter Rundschau
Food: Bon voyage

13 February 2013 – The Daily Telegraph (London)
Food Safety: ‘Horsemeat scandal continues to spread’

“The food sector elsewhere in Europe is increasingly concerned,” writes the newspaper, following the discovery of horsemeat in lasagne, which was supposed to contain beef […]

13 February 2013 – Presseurop De Standaard
Food: Horsemeat scam is a European problem

The horsemeat scandal has taken on European proportions. While European countries seek to blame each other, they are ignoring the underlying problem, which is that the economic crisis has meant that low income families are increasingly dependent on cheap meat.

13 February 2013 – NRC Handelsblad (Amsterdam)
Romania: Meat scandal puts Bucharest back in the pillory

A new scandal has tarnished Romania’s image in the EU. The discovery of horsemeat from Romania in lasagna supposed to contain beef from a well-known […]

11 February 2013 – Presseurop România libera, Adevărul
United Kingdom: ‘Calls for halt to processed meat imports from EU’

In the wake of the horse-meat scandal, the British government has come under pressure to impose a ban on meat imports from the European Union. Vice-president […]

11 February 2013 – Presseurop The i
Food: Europe’s mountain of leftovers

In Europe, almost 50% of edible and healthy food “gets wasted during the different processing phases from production to the consumer’s table”, writes El País. […]

20 January 2012 – Presseurop El País
Health: Europe’s food safety in hands of lobbies

The European Food Inspection Authority decides what ends up on our plates. But their links with industry are many – and consumers are paying for it.

15 November 2011 – Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich)
INTERVIEW: Jean Ziegler: Brussels is unspeakably hypocritical

Vice-president of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee**, Jean Ziegler has just published** Destruction massive. Géopolitique de la faim (“Mass Destruction: the Geopolitics of […]

25 October 2011 – Presseurop Notebook
Food: Suspect number 3

10 June 2011 – SME (Bratislava)
E.coli panic: Madrid accuses Brussels of stinginess

"Spain is importing a little cucumber" headlines La Razón, in a play on words emphasising the “chump change” Spanish farmers are getting back as compensation […]

8 June 2011 – Presseurop La Razón
Food: Deadly bacteria - German weakness

“First cucumbers, then soja, tomorrow it will probably be strawberries,” headlinesDe Volkskrant, which explains that even in Germany, “everyone is equally baffled” about the orgin […]

7 June 2011 – Presseurop De Volkskrant
Food: A new suspect

6 June 2011 – De Standaard (Brussels)
Germany: Not killer cucumbers, but bean-sprouts

"Now it’s sprouts," headlines Die Welt following the announcement by Lower Saxony’s Agriculture Minister of a new leads in the investigation to determine the origin […]

6 June 2011 – Presseurop Die Welt
E.coli: New food scare, same old mistakes

There is no doubt that E. coli bacteria are dangerous. But the panic stricken response of authorities and consumers to the current outbreak of infections is largely pointless. A Belgian editorialist complains about the damage not only to the European economy but also to the spirit of Europe.

3 June 2011 – De Standaard (Brussels)
Health: Living dangerously

1 June 2011 – Le Monde (Paris)
Food: Killer cucumber, a European panic attack

After helping to fuel the controversy, the European press is speculating on the public psychosis associated with the EHEC bacteria.

1 June 2011 – Presseurop
Germany: Fear of the killer cucumbers

Germany is living in "fear of killer germs," declares Bild, which gives its front page over to a “health warning on tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce.” […]

27 May 2011 – Presseurop Bild
Food: Europe “in a state of nuclear emergency”

Following the disaster in the Japanese nuclear power plant in Fukushima and the fear of contamination in food coming from Japan, the European Commission has […]

31 March 2011 – Presseurop Süddeutsche Zeitung
Food: Cheap eats come at a price

"What cost us was being cheap”. Following the scandal of dioxin found in eggs and meat in Germany, Der Freitag focuses on "rotten food" [junk […]

20 January 2011 – Presseurop Der Freitag
World heritage: UNESCO digs flamenco and med food

"UNESCO crowns castells," headlines El Periódico, in the wake of the international body’s decision to include 46 popular traditions, including flamenco and the Mediterranean diet, […]

17 November 2010 – Presseurop El Periódico de Catalunya
Food: Drought spells wheat crisis

A heat wave in Europe, torrential rain and fires, chiefly in Russia, are responsible for a panic on the global grain/milling market, Gazeta Wyborczareports on […]

6 August 2010 – Presseurop Gazeta Wyborcza
Romania: Bucharest has knives out for junk food

The Romanian government has announced its introduction of a tax on junk food in order to help fund the health system and fight obesity. Set […]

7 January 2010 – Presseurop Evenimentul zilei
Tower of Babel: Sour grapes

Sour as vinegar, a saying with many variants across the continent, but why? It starts with the word itself - vinum acetum means ‘wine turned sour’. Cafebabel.com unleashes its idiom of the week.

13 November 2009 – Cafébabel (Paris)
Exploitation: Strawberry picking for peanuts

Tempted by the prospect of earning more than €200 a week as seasonal fruit pickers in rural England, Eastern Europeans travelling to the UK on temporary visas are finding the reality vastly different. With wages considerably less than promised, and living in inadequate accommodation, some are not even able to pay for their return ticket home, reports the Independent.

10 July 2009 – The Independent (London)
Belgium: Food reality show makes mincemeat of elections

Few Flemish speaking Belgians are interested in this June’s European and regional elections, but they are spellbound by a TV reality show called Mijn restaurant […]

4 June 2009 – Presseurop De Standaard

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