As Europe braces for two key battles over the future of glyphosate next week, the controversial weedkiller got an early setback on Thursday when the European Parliament's Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee voted to phase it out of the bloc within the next three years. The vote — 39 lawmakers in favor, nine opposed, with 10 abstaining — carries little legal weight, but it sends a message and increases the pressure surrounding a December 15 deadline for Brussels to renew the ubiquitous herbicide's license, POLITICO Europe's Simon Marks reports.

 

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