Long TextExercise 36 of 81

Glyphosate, the key ingredient in the world's bestselling weedkiller, has won a new five-year lease in Europe, closing the most bitterly fought pesticide relicensing battle of recent times. The herbicide's license had been due to run out in less than three weeks, raising the prospect of Monsanto's Roundup…

• How does the writer characterise the behaviour of some parliamentarians in paragraph 6?
• What concern does the writer voice on behalf of European farmers in paragraph 7?