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- 1Scientists warn EU pesticide policy is a dangerous step backward▼Pesticides: Scientific community warns of 'dangerous step backward' in European laws
The European scientific community has issued a warning that proposed or enacted changes to EU pesticide legislation amount to a 'dangerous step backward' in environmental and health protections. According to Le Monde, researchers fear the rollback of current safeguards could increase pesticide use and exposure across Europe, sparking debate over the future direction of the bloc's agricultural and environmental policy.
- 2EU pesticides bill stalled as scientists urge pause●Deadlock on an EU pesticides bill after scientists call for a pause. Amid pushback from the European scientific communit
Negotiations on the EU's pesticides reduction law have reached a deadlock after European scientists called for a pause. EU officials face pressure to suspend talks on the Food and Feed legislation, with pushback coming both from the scientific community and from countries outside the bloc. The standoff leaves the fate of the bill uncertain.
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CERN has released a VHDL library for FPGAs, making its hardware description code publicly available to developers and researchers. The move gives engineers working on field-programmable gate arrays free access to code developed at the European physics lab. The release is being picked up by the open-source hardware community, which welcomes greater sharing of scientific institutions' engineering work.