TAG: Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
Protesting farmers share table with EU leaders
Farmers who descended on Brussels to disrupt a leaders' summit finally got their moment with senior...
8 months ago
France axes tractor fuel hike, cuts red tape to appease angry farmers
PARIS — The French government on Friday promised to cut taxes on agricultural fuel and reduce bureau...
8 months ago
French farmers attack foreign trucks, destroy cargoes, report says
PARIS — French farmers have attacked foreign trucks transporting imported produce in the southern Dr...
8 months ago
How the EU’s flagship nature law became an electoral punching bag
BRUSSELS — Election fever is slowly killing an embattled law seeking to rehabilitate the European Union’s ailing rivers, forests and seas. The Nature Restoration Law, once billed as a pillar of the European Green Deal, is a shadow of its former self after...
6 months ago
EU takes the ax to green farming rules
The European Commission is finalizing a series of legislative proposals that would severely weaken environmental requirements for farmers — flying in the face of advice by its top scientists that agriculture must become more sustainable or it will be deci...
6 months ago
Right-wing MEPs loathe the Green Deal — but have no plan of attack
BRUSSELS — Lawmakers on the EU’s right flank can easily agree: They all hate the Green Deal.It’s how to channel that hatred that is proving hard. Even as green skeptics are set to arrive in the European Parliament in record numbers, there’s no discernible...
2 months ago
The EU says it wants food security. It really wants exports.
BRUSSELS — Food security: It’s the new slogan dominating European farming. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has pinned it at the top of her agricultural agenda, promising European lawmakers that she would ensure it in her second term. Th...
2 months ago
The plan to save European farming
BRUSSELS — Business as usual is no longer an option for European farmers and businesses if climate collapse and economic hardship are to be avoided.That’s the top line of a joint report presented to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on We...
1 month ago
Center right gets its way as golden boy Hansen lands EU farm job
BRUSSELS — Christophe Hansen, Ursula von der Leyen’s choice for EU agriculture and food commissioner, embodies her plan to make peace with restive farmers battered by the pandemic, war in Ukraine and a changing climate.The center-right politician from Lux...
3 weeks ago