Now playing Next Climate EU Policy. Redirect farming subsidies from meat for climate's sake, World Bank says EU member states and other high-income countries should shift subsidies from emissions-heavy ‘wasteful’ foods like red meat towards greener fruit and veg, according to the World Bank. 07/05/2024
Now playing Next Business Crédit Agricole announces earnings jump while rival’s profits plummet France’s second largest bank surpasses profit expectations while competitor Société Générale sees earnings dip. 03/05/2024
Now playing Next Climate Euroviews. EU Overshoot Day signals an SOS for the European Green Deal Hiding our heads in the sand and pretending the current climate and nature crisis could be paused in order to promote competitiveness, surrenders the vision for Europe to a vocal and regressive minority, Ester Asin, William Todts, Ariel Brunner, Chiara Martinelli, and Patrick ten Brink write. 03/05/2024
Now playing Next Nature Euroviews. Europe has to set aside the pesticides row and turn toward solutions The stakes are too high, the issues too intricate, and the world too dependent on us taking the right actions for us to work in silos, or isolation — or worse, for us to stand divided, Olivier de Matos writes. 29/04/2024
Now playing Next Economy Euroviews. Why EU trade policy and climate are running into the sand As it finesses its strategy on trade, the EU needs to think how to moderate its sustainability agenda, which is proving too much for its trading partners to swallow, John Clarke writes. 22/04/2024
Now playing Next Nature Euroviews. Rushed CAP changes are not about farmers, but agro-industry profits The rushed and quirky bureaucratic manoeuvre of reopening the Common Agricultural Policy runs counter to the interests of farmers, consumers, and our environment, and only serves to deliver profits for the big agri players promoting it, Natacha Cingotti writes. 19/04/2024
Now playing Next Europe News EU Policy. MEPs query fast-tracking farmer-friendly CAP reform Some political groups appear unwilling to cede Parliament’s lawmaking prerogatives to fast-track eleventh-hour approval of major deregulation of the EU’s agricultural subsidies and soothe protesting farmers. 16/04/2024
Now playing Next Nature Euroviews. Amid rampant deforestation, the EU must safeguard its ‘green jewel’ The EU was widely lauded for its pioneering anti-deforestation law. Now, although new data just found that global forest loss is still rampant, some EU countries are trying to sabotage it before it’s even been implemented, Julia Christian writes. 08/04/2024
Now playing Next Europe News EU policies jeopardise food independence, say 50% in poll European voters are as unhappy as farmers with the bloc’s protection of agriculture, accounting the largest slice of the EU budget. 29/03/2024
Now playing Next Europe News Ukraine 'not fully satisfied' with new EU deal on grain, says minister Ukraine is "not fully satisfied" with the latest grain deal agreed by EU countries but can make it work, says the country's agriculture minister. 29/03/2024
Now playing Next Green News Farmers throw beets and set hay alight at protests in Brussels Police used tear gas and water cannons to keep the violence at bay as the entryway to a subway station was set alight. 29/03/2024
Now playing Next Climate ‘A catastrophe’: Farmers and hotels are battling for water in Spain As Catalonia's water restrictions hit farmers the hardest, the tourism industry’s efforts to save itself could cause friction. 29/03/2024
Now playing Next Eco-Innovation Could old coffee grounds help clean up contaminated water? An estimated six million tonnes of coffee grounds are discarded annually. What if they could be put to good use? 25/03/2024
Now playing Next world news EU to revise Agricultural Policy in response to farmers protests The proposals would reduce governmental control on EU farmers and give them more space to adapt to environmental-related laws. 16/03/2024
Now playing Next Europe News EU Policy. India’s unrealistic demands sank WTO agri talks, claims commissioner EU executive blamed India’s hard stance on food stockpiling for lack of breakthrough at World Trade Organisation’s biennial agriculture ministerial. 04/03/2024
Now playing Next Europe News Solve farmers' woes to overcome prejudice against Ukraine: trade envoy Ukraine's trade representative says Polish farmers' grievances must be addressed on a rational, product-by-product basis to avoid unfair prejudice against the war-torn nation. 04/03/2024
Now playing Next Europe News Angry french farmers greet President Emmanuel Macron at major fair Farmers across the EU argue the bloc's environmental regulations, including initiatives like the Green Deal, hamper their operations and render their products less competitive against non-EU products. 24/02/2024
