Nineteen of the 28 countries in the European Union are taking advantage of new EU rules to exclude all or part of their territory from growing GMO crops that gain approval by the bloc, says Reuters. “But with new crops queuing for approval and key countries leaving the door open, output is more likely to grow than wane.” The leader of a Romanian farm group says GMO corn offers lower production costs and is popular in his country as well as Portugal and Spain. Romania is the second-largest grain producer in the EU. France, which bans GMO corn, is the largest. Europe is one of the world’s largest buyers of biotech grain, mainly for livestock feed, said Reuters.