agriculture
It took only 40 days for the European Parliament to give its final nod to a legal package simplifying farm subsidies – a record for reforming a such major policy area. The plan was presented to EU lawmakers in mid-March by the European Commission, in a bid to cut red tape and reduce certain green conditions in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Officials hoped that would appease farmers who have protested across Europe since the end of last year, complaining about red tape and poor incomes. A majority of the parliament backed the package in a vote in Strasbourg on Wednesday (24 April), duri...
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The survival of the European Green Deal could rest on the upcoming European Elections, Green MEPs have warned. They say that if right-wing parties make significant gains in June, plans to protect nature and mitigate climate change could be watered down or even disappear completely. Speaking at a briefing on Tuesday before his last session in the European Parliament on Wednesday, co-president of the Green group of MEPs Philippe Lamberts called out the “absolute bullsh*t” of politicians claiming to fight for climate action while doing the opposite. He criticised centrist politicians who he claim...
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The European Parliament has confirmed that plants created using new gene-editing techniques should be removed from the scope of a 2001 directive on genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and the creation of two new categories of crops to be subject to a lighter regulatory touch. MEPs originally voted in favour of the legislation in February, effectively calling for a regulatory regime where a plant that has only had a limited number of point changes to made to its DNA sequence would be subject to more or less the same rules as a conventionally bred crop strain. The vote was deemed necessary be...
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Belgium has warned fellow member states that failure to agree this week to reform “technically obsolete” EU rules setting minimum tax rates for fuels and electricity could delay incentives for a switch away from harmful fossil fuels to cleaner alternatives. In a bid to secure the necessary unanimous support for reforms to EU rules on energy taxation, the current holder of the rotating EU Council presidency has suggested governments should have a largely free hand over whether to tax aviation and shipping fuel, and proposed the agriculture and fishing industries should enjoy tax-free energy. “T...
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More than 2.4 billion people around the world are exposed to climate change-related health hazards. A new report from the UN’s International Labour Organisation (ILO) has found that climate change is already having a serious impact on the health and safety of a “staggering” number of workers in all parts of the world. It estimates that more than 70 per cent of the world’s 3.4 billion workers are likely to be exposed to excessive heat at some point during their work. The figures from 2020, the last year for which data is available, are up from two decades ago when it was 65.5 per cent. Climate ...
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Tens of thousands of farmers protested a major agriculture business conference in Italy this week, rallying against what they argue is alleged inauthentic product labelling by the EU. Italy's largest farming organisation, Coldiretti Farmers, which represents over 70,000 workers, spearheaded the #NoFakeInItaly action on Monday. Coldiretti national president Ettore Prandini said is it "crucial" to raise awareness within the European institutions of the situation in Italy, in light of the European elections this June, about "all the issues of fundamental importance to the agricultural world such ...
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In December 2022, the EU took a historic step in the fight against deforestation. Following years of intense political debate and tireless campaigning by NGOs, the EU Regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR) became law. For the first time, companies will be banned from selling certain high-risk commodities — including palm oil, cocoa, beef and soy — in the EU, unless they can prove that they are deforestation-free and produced legally. Just a few years ago, the notion that the EU would pass a law constraining companies in this way seemed unattainable. But it became a reality. The need ...
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Champions of organic farming have long portrayed it as friendlier to humans and the earth. But a new study in a California county found a surprising effect as their acreage grew: nearby conventional farms applied more pesticides, likely to stay on top of an increased insect threat to their crops, the researchers said. Ashley Larsen, lead author of the study in this week's journal Science, said understanding what's happening could be important to keeping organic and conventional farmers from hurting each other's operations. “We expect an increase in organic in the future. How do we make sure th...
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What used to be an extraordinary exception now appears to have become an almost monthly tradition at the European Union headquarters in Brussels: hundreds of tractors on the streets and farmers resorting to sometimes violent actions. This display of anger served to attract the attention of agriculture ministers, who were in the city this week to discuss new measures to respond to farmers' complaints over lost income and red tape. Although farmers have already obtained concessions, such as the relaxation of some administrative and environmental rules, they want more financial help and are again...
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Almost half of the respondents in an Ipsos survey of 26,000 European voters conducted for Euronews considered the EU’s actions to impact negatively on the protection of European agriculture and the bloc’s food independence. Both aspects take centre stage in the EU’s farming subsidies programme, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which is also one of the bloc’s biggest cash envelopes. The poll outcome may be viewed as a substantial failure of the bloc’s key agricultural policy, with EU lawmakers failing to capitalise on funding specifically earmarked for agriculture – which accounts for one-...
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