{"id":5456,"date":"2024-04-26T14:52:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T20:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rovingreporter.org\/?p=5456"},"modified":"2024-04-26T14:52:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T20:52:23","slug":"news-nibs-from-around-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rovingreporter.org\/news-nibs-from-around-the-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"News Nibs from Around the Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Few News Nibs from Nancy:<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n3\/13\/2024 EU axes green farming rules. The European Commission\u2019s<br \/>\nmove to slash environmental requirements for farmers comes as top<br \/>\nscientists are urging just the opposite. A series of legislative proposals<br \/>\nwill severely weaken environmental requirements for farmers. For<br \/>\nexample, it will end a requirement to set aside land to promote<br \/>\nbiodiversity, making it and other measures \u2013 such as minimizing tillage<br \/>\nto prevent soil erosion \u2013 voluntary. National governments are<br \/>\ndesperate to quell protests by farmers who have taken to the streets<br \/>\naround Europe to vent their fury at the environmental red tape, which<br \/>\nthe farmers say is destroying their livelihoods. For info, go to Politico for<br \/>\npros and cons.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n3\/16\/2024 France joins Poland\u2019s push to curb Ukrainian imports. Xi<br \/>\nJinping plans to visit France in early May.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n3\/17\/2024 French Pres. Macron to call for Russia-Ukraine truce<br \/>\nduring Paris Olympics, telling Ukrainians that he will respect the<br \/>\nOlympic Committee\u2019s decision to allow Russian athletes to compete<br \/>\nunder a neutral flag.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n3\/17\/2024 Israel and Hamas tried to set stage for new round of<br \/>\ncease-fire talks. Israeli PM Netanyahu calls militant group\u2019s demands<br \/>\n\u201cabsurd\u201d. Note: This comment came 3 weeks prior to Iran\u2019s direct<br \/>\nattacks on Israel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Few News Nibs from Nancy: . 3\/13\/2024 EU axes green farming rules. The European Commission\u2019s move to slash environmental requirements for farmers comes as top scientists are urging just the opposite. A series of legislative proposals will severely weaken environmental requirements for farmers. For example, it will end a requirement to set aside land [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nancys-news-nibs","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rovingreporter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rovingreporter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rovingreporter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rovingreporter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rovingreporter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rovingreporter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5457,"href":"https:\/\/rovingreporter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456\/revisions\/5457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rovingreporter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rovingreporter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rovingreporter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}