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Ministers mollify farmers with simpler CAP rules

Agriculture ministers rubberstamped fresh measures to reduce administrative burden on farmers, aiming to address imbalances in the food supply chain as a next step in addressing protests.

Belgium

More farmers protests cause disuption in Brussels

The farmers' protests are ongoing, despite the EU relaxing its demands.

Tech News

Romanian agency uses AI to help farmers get EU funding

Romania’s Rural Investing Finance Authority (AFIR) is streamlining the grant submission process for farmers by using AI to do their administrative work.

United Kingdom

'Slaughtered': UK farmers protest post-Brexit rules and trade deals

London negotiated the "worst trade deals in the world" after the UK's exit from the EU, claimed the founder of Save British Farming.

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Business

With unsold grain piled high, Polish farmer faces uncertainty amid war

The disruption of Ukrainian exports via the Black Sea led to a massive flow of grain across Poland's border with Ukraine, driving down prices for food products while inflation has caused production costs and interest rates on loans to rise.

Ecotech

AI robots are patrolling Dutch tulip fields to root out viruses

Tulip fields in the Netherlands were threatened by viruses until this AI robot rolled in to save the day.

Earth News

Future of Nature Restoration Law uncertain amid further delay

With half a dozen member states blocking the final adoption of the Nature Restoration Law, a key element of the EU's flagship Green Deal, Hungary is being singled out for withholding its previous support.

Climate

Easter egg prices soar by 50%. Is climate change to blame?

Popular brands like Maltesers, Lindt and Ferrero Rocher have risen sharply in price compared to last year

Poland

Polish farmers block major motorway near German border

Farmers angry at red tape and competition from cheap imports from select countries have been protesting across the EU for months.

Europe News

Free-trade with Ukraine extended for one year with safeguards for bloc’s farmers

Lawmakers clinched a political deal on year long renewal of a free trade scheme with Ukraine adding ‘emergency brakes’ for sensitive agricultural commodities in the aftermath of farmers’ protests.

Earth News

Commission to kill CAP's green farming obligations

The EU executive is set to change the current farming subsidies framework, demoting green requirements from mandatory to voluntary.

Earth News

Euroviews. Farmers have nothing to fear from green and animal welfare reforms

The current threat we face is existential. Our own health, and that of animals, nature and our planet are so closely linked that they must be considered together in the solutions we adopt, Debbie Tripley writes.

Poland

Poland sees its most violent farmers' protest yet

Numerous EU countries have seen furious protests against the bloc's agricultural policies and the effect of Ukrainian grain imports.

Nature

Bloc expert group to stop plant pests crossing borders

Lawmakers revising EU plant health framework agree to create emergency team to tackle import of foreign pests.

Europe News

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.

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.

World News

State of the Union: Macron drives aggressive Ukraine agenda

EU leaders are diverging in their rhetoric on Ukraine while also trying to placate farmers angry at cheap grain imports.

Economy

Euroviews. European farmers are key to global food security — and they need help

One bad season in one crop or seed should not yield such stress on European farmers. They are key to our European and global food security. The time to support them is now, Charles Miller writes.

Spain

Spanish and French farmers block Catalonia border crossing in protest

Catalonia's AP-7 motorway will host a demonstration by farmers angry at agricultural policies and non-EU imports.