Farmers who descended on Brussels to disrupt a leaders' summit finally got their moment with senior...
8 months agoPARIS — The French government on Friday promised to cut taxes on agricultural fuel and reduce bureau...
8 months agoPARIS — French farmers have attacked foreign trucks transporting imported produce in the southern Dr...
8 months agoBRUSSELS — 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 agoThe 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 agoBRUSSELS — 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 agoBRUSSELS — 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 agoBRUSSELS — 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 agoBRUSSELS — 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...
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