Bush blasts Europe over GM food ban

US president George Bush is heading for another conflict with European leaders after accusing the EU of aggravating hunger in Africa with a trade ban on genetically-modified food.

In a speech at the US Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, used by Bush to pledge that America “will not relent in the war against global terror”, the president also strained transatlantic ties, already frayed by divisions over the Iraq war.