Agreement on GM crops cannot be agreed upon by EU ministers

Environmental ministers from the European Union were in Brussels to debate a Danish compromise with the hope of breaking the deadlock in the approvals for genetically modified (GM) crop. but governments failed to agree to a proposition to let them individually decide whether to grow or ban GM plants.

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“There were some countries saying that the time is not right for Europe right now, that Europe wasn’t ready,” Danish Environment Minister Ida Auken said after the meeting. The Danish compromise plan proposed companies seeking EU approval to cultivate a GM crop to not market the product in countries that do not want to grow it, in return for approval to grow the crops in others. Read more ...