Phil Hogan emerges as front-runner in EU race for world’s biggest food agency

Phil Hogan emerges as front-runner in EU race for world’s biggest food agency

In 2020, Phil Hogan resigned from the European Commission after attending a parliamentary event that flouted Ireland’s Covid lockdown. Today, he is the front-runner to become the European Union’s candidate to lead the world’s biggest food agency. The job is that of director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization, the U.N. body that writes the global rules for food safety, sounds the alarm over looming famines, decides which fish stocks…