Plenty of change in short political week

A week is a long time in politics, even in the politics of agri-food in the EU. Last week, this column reported on the position IFOAM EU took on the proposed EU organic regulation.

Having previously been critical they finally came out and said that they could not support the proposed regulation. Since then the ground may have shifted decisively in their favour.

They released a statement on the 3rd December which “welcomes the announcement by DG Agriculture Commissioner Hogan to take a fresh look at the proposal.”