UK Farmer Makes the Case to Continue a Science-Lead Approach to GM Crops
The surprise majority victory of the Tories in the United Kingdoms national elections last week provides Prime Minister David Cameron with a clear working majo...
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Africa is a Breadbasket of Opportunity
For many Americans and Europeans, Africa is the charity continenta hopeless land of starving people who need handouts merely to survive.
Sometimes it seems ...
Its Time to COOL Down and Uphold the U.S. Trade Obligations
Nobody ever wins a trade war, but the protectionists always want to try.
Their latest act of stubbornness will force American consumers to pay more at the gr...
EU-US Regulatory Harmonization is a Problem Worth Fixing
It felt like an out-of-body experience.
Last week, I found myself sitting in an auditorium in Brusselsand listening to Europeans applaud genetically modifie...
Regulatory Convergence in the TTIP
The second round of negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) free trade agreement (FTA) between the EU and the U.S. were postpo...
Now is the Time for an EU-US Free Trade Agreement
Corn flakes are one of the most popular breakfast foods in the worldand 15 years ago, Norway banned them.
Technically, its government outlawed the importati...
Dont Allow Biotechnology to be Taken Off the EU-US Negotiating Table
If its not hard, its not worth doing.
U.S. and EU trade diplomats must keep this slogan in mind as they prepare to negotiate a sweeping free-trade agreemen...
Whats the Beef?
On a trip to Germany a few years ago, I wandered into the meat section of a grocery store. What I saw astonished me.
The beef section in the meat case was ve...
Transatlantic Zero: A Winning US-EU Trade Proposal
Its time for America to zero out its relationship with Europe.
No, I dont mean we should cut ties. Quite the contrary: We should cut tariffs, zeroing them ...
An Olympic-Sized Economic Freeze Out
The International Olympic Committee is the latest entity to jump on this economic bandwagon, having selected the South Korean resort of Pyeongchang as the ...