Germany - Looking at food controls

South African Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Ms Tina Joemat-Pettersson held a bilateral meeting with the German Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, Ms Ilse Aigner, today. The two ministers had discussions on ...

Federal Agriculture Minister welcomes the outcome of EU summit: direct payments to be more closely linked to environmental performance. Federal Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner has welcomed the deal struck by the Heads of State and Government on the ...

German state-levellawmakersagree that consumers should have the right to return mobile apps. But changing the law may do little to help consumers if companies don't do their bit. Hundreds of thousands of mobile apps are downloaded and purchased ...

Deutsche Telekom's plans to introduce data throttling for landline contracts have been met with indignation from many sides. Critics fear that the internet community could be split into two classes. With its announcement of plans to limit broadband ...

When food and gardening are treated as if theyre nothing more than commodities, especially when control is placed in the hands of those whose sole interest is profits, then the people under such rule are living in total tyranny. That's exactly what ...

The Thünen Institute's Centre of Competence on the Origin of Timber is officially opened as the new EU Timber Regulation comes into effect. Methods of determining timber species and identifying timber origins are applied at the Thünen Institute, ...