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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.

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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.

Poland

Polish farmers take to streets of Warsaw

Thousands of farmers took to the streets of Poland's capital in the most recent demonstrations opposing food imports from Ukraine and EU agricultural policies.

Climate

Ministers pave way to reopen CAP – and make it less green

Agricultural ministers meeting in Brussels today (26 February) backed the idea of reopening the EU’s farming subsidies scheme starting by dismantling its green architecture.

Europe News

Watch: Angry farmers dump manure and clash with police in Brussels

Farmers from all over Europe marched into Brussels on Monday morning to protest against a varied range of issues, including low prices for their products, environmental regulation and free-trade deals.

Poland

Polish farmers block major highway in protest against EU regulations

Farmers in Poland on Sunday blocked a major highway leading to Germany in the latest protest against EU regulations and taxes.

Climate

Euroviews. Agroecology is the only way forward

We agree that Europe needs to keep farmers and their needs at the forefront. The only way to do that is to move towards a food system transformation based on sustainable agriculture that is rooted in agroecological principles, Sandra Uwera Murasa writes.

Europe News

Commission touts subsidy simplification measures to soothe farmers’ ire

A range of short and medium-term actions have been identified by the EU executive to ease the administrative burden on farmers – a major cause of discontent.