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Gloucestershire Old-Spot gets EU protection

Published on 28-07-10

The Gloucestershire Old-Spot variety of pig has today been added to the list of "Traditional Speciality Guaranteed" under the European Union's quality labelling scheme. This means that producers who wish to use the term with the TSG label can only do so if they follow precise specifications, so ensuring consumers are aware that they are getting a true traditional speciality.

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Gloucestershire Old-Spot gets EU protection

Gloucestershire Old-Spot pigs. Photo courtesy of Chesterton Farm, Glocs.

How to halve road deaths by 2020

How to halve road deaths by 2020

Published on 20-07-10

The European Commission has adopted challenging plans to reduce the number of road deaths on Europe's roads by half in the next 10 years.  This follows efforts that reduced road fatalities by more than 40% during the past decade. The new plan builds on these achievements, but also looks into new challenges – how to reduce injuries and what to do about vulnerab...

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Freelance editors wanted – apply now

Freelance editors wanted – apply now

Published on 20-07-10

The European Commission is looking for freelance editors who can revise Commission documents drafted in English. The documents cover a wide range of subject areas relating to the core business of the European Union, sometimes involving very technical issues which require editing of very high standards.

The editors will form a roster of freelancers to pro...

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Dennis Abbott writes to Daily Telegraph about EU Culture Programme

Published on 27-07-2010

Your report on recent beneficiaries of EU funding (26 July 2010) was misleading in a number of important respects. The article refers to “a secretive fund of £400million to pay for projects that include promoting a ’smelly-foot’ dance and producing postcards about the causes of ’social exclusion’.” The examples cited in the article were not confidential. [...]

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