The 27 European Union governments failed on Friday to give a decisive opinion on a proposal to extend by 10 years approval for the use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide.
A “qualified majority” of 15 countries representing at least 65 per cent of the bloc’s population had been required either to support or to block the proposal.
They will vote again in early November and if they fail to come to a decision then, it will be up to the European Commission to decide the fate of a herbicide which has transformed farming around the world.
