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Even though surveys show 70% of European consumers oppose GMO foods, green groups have warned The European Union could see a series of new biotech foods quietly approved with no authority from EU states. As they cannot overcome years of deadlock over genetically modified (GMO) foods the EU states will see the Commission stepping in to authorise these foods over the heads of the governments.

To my mind if the states say no that is not a deadlock but a refusal to accept these new biotech foods, the only deadlock seems to be the States do not want them and the interested parties in the EU do.

Geert Ritsema of Friends of the Earth said this would be riding roughshod over public opinion “The Commission is not giving a lot of space to member states in the process. They are overruling an overwhelming majority of member states and the public, who say ‘We don’t want them’.”

EU member states have not themselves approved any new GMO since 1998 as no decision has been taken, it falls to the Commission to approve the new GMO, under a intricate procedure that allows the EU executive to step in if member states cannot reach a decision themselves. The European Commission will hold its first debate on GMO policy on Tuesday and appears keen to push a backlog of GMO requests through the EU’s complex authorisation process.

Even more evidence, if it were needed, of the Commissions place as the real government of this country. A thought has just occurred to me, as we are holding a general election in May (we assume) perhaps the EU Commission would like to stand as a political party in order to gain a democratic mandate for their aims and ambitions for the people of the UK? No! Thought not.