Those 2013 articles are outdated, Monsanto had a number of permitted approved this year. They either never withdrew their pending applications as those articles stated they intended to, or they got new applications approved in less than two years start to finish.
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Those 2013 articles are outdated, Monsanto had a number of permitted approved this year. They either never withdrew their pending applications as those articles stated they intended to, or they got new applications approved in less than two years start to finish.
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-4843_en.htm
These aren't approvals to grow the crops in the EU, which is the core issue, they are approvals to import products grown elsewhere.