While commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel, responsible for agriculture, said, effectively, GMOs were here to stay and Europeans should get used to them, Europe`s environment commissioner Stavros Dimas attacked the EU`s food safety agency (EFSA) on Wednesday for flawed risk assessments of genetically modified crops and foods, saying it relied too much on data given by the biotech industry.</p><p><a href="http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/35913/story.htm">Reuters: Safety Checks on GMOs Flawed - EU Environment Chief</a></p><p><a href="http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/35909/story.htm">Reuters: EU Commissioners Split on Genetically-Modified Food</a></p><p><a href="http://www.eupolitix.com/EN/News/200604/5f7e8291-7bdf-42f5-950d-f825169acf70.htm">europolitix.com: GM debate: Rifts open in the EU executive</a></p><p><a href="http://www.saveourseeds.org/downloads/Fischer_Boel_Coex_210306.pdf">Marianne Fischer-Boel about Coexistence on March 21, 2006</a></p><p><a href="http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/06/224&format=PDF&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en">Speech held by Stavros Dimas at the conference in Vienna</a>