Holiday Break

The Editorial Team Dear readers, We will be taking a short break for summer holidays. We will resume our regular publishing schedule in early September 2026. In the meantime, we are always open to...

Sovereignty by proxy? EU technological capacity and the first Portuguese Open Large Language Model

Ana Filipa Ribeiro (master’s student in European Union Law at the School of Law of University of Minho and ENDE Research Grant Holder – ref. UMINHO/BIM/2026/33) and Renan Bendel Vaughan (master’s student in European...

Press release – European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee delegation concludes mission to China

In Beijing and Shanghai, MEPs discussed the geopolitical implications of EU-China ties, while reaffirming the EU’s principled stance and commitment to dialogue.Committee on Foreign Affairs Source : © European Union, 2026 – EP  ...

New study reveals hidden economic and environmental costs of soil compaction in Europe

A new open-access study co-authored by FARMWISE researcher Landon J. S. Halloran has used a continent-scale modelling framework to investigate how soil compaction could affect European agriculture and the wider environment under future climate...

Policy and practice watch:

Questions FARMWISE shares with the EU CAP Network Every so often a newsletter lands in the inbox that feels less like external news and more like a mirror held up to your own work....

From nitrate hotspots to hard choices: FARMWISE at EGU 2026

Some scientific problems are easier to find than to fix. Nitrate pollution in groundwater is one of them: diffuse, stubborn, and deeply bound up with the way food is grown across Europe. It can...