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European lawmakers are urging authorities to take action over the thousands of cattle currently stranded at sea in “diplomatic limbo” in order to spare the animals any additional and unnecessary suffering. Urgent action must be taken to rescue more than 1,700 cattle which have been stranded on a vessel in the Mediterranean sea for close to three months, MEP Anja Hazekamp, president of the European Parliament’s animal welfare intergroup, wrote in a letter. “The Spanish competent authorit...

Government officials launched an eleventh hour scramble for staff to check goods before arriving in Northern Ireland, it can be revealed. Contracts to supply staff to carry out checks were only put together and awarded in recent weeks, with a notice published on Monday. The contracts worth nearly £800,000, awarded by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA), were based on "extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable by the contracting authority". Details o...

OACPS Ministers endorse new OACPS-EU Partnership Agreement, proposals on Fisheries and the EU Blacklist at 111th session of the Council of Ministers Brussels, 18 December 2020/OACPS: Meeting virtually on 14, 15 and 17 December 2020, the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) approved eight decisions and two resolutions on key issues affecting its Member States (MS) and pertaining to the administrative and financial management of the Organisatio...