Food and drink

Across Ukraine, the war has forced grain growers into a vicious dilemma. Farmers in areas now free from Russian occupation are risking their lives to strip their land of explosives before the critical spring planting season.

Pop's Pizza in Ljubljana has made the list of top 50 pizza places in Europe, excluding Italy, for the second time in a row in the latest 50 Top Pizza guide.

Located on the Ljubljanica riverside, Pop's Pizza is up three spots from last year's ranking to place 40th.

Global food and beverage giant Nestle has said that it would stop extracting from two mineral water wells in eastern France due to drought and increasingly unpredictable weather conditions.

The main index at the Greek bourse cleared the 1,100-point bar with relative ease on Friday, ending a week of gains and moderate trading volume. This last session of the week showed price growth across the board in what was the fourth consecutive day of gains for the benchmark.

The European Union has said it has made a contribution of 8 million euros to the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) to provide food assistance for people who have been affected by the deadly earthquakes that rattled Türkiye's south in early February.

Coca-Cola HBC on Wednesday announced higher organic revenue growth of 22.2% in the first quarter, excluding Russia and Ukraine.

The company said that a price mix led revenue growth as it took decisive actions to mitigate cost inflation.

Volume growth in sparkling, energy and coffee drinks was offset by declines in stills, driven by an anticipated weakness in water.

Mongolia is the second Asian country after Japan that will produce Bulgarian yogurt with the Lactobacillus bulgaricus bacteria. An agreement on the use of the license was signed between the state company "LB Bulgaricum" and one of the largest Mongolian food production companies - APU Company, the Ministry of Economy reports.

The wine industry in Cyprus is at a turning point, as coordinated upgrading and promotion efforts are under way in both the private and public sectors.

The Cyprus Wine Consortium, consisting of 15 wineries in the private sector, has created a recognition symbol called WineCore, which stands for Wineries of Cyprus Own-Rooted Evolution.

Attacking politicians when they're going about their private business or barging violently into their offices are not harmless forms of activism that should be treated with tolerance. Nor are they, as some people actually continue to view such assaults, acceptable "symbolic" acts.

The ban on the import into Bulgaria of certain goods from Ukraine comes into force. The introduced restrictions affect the import of wheat, honey, dairy and meat products, alcohol and several other basic food products. The goal is to support Bulgarian farmers.