EU considers organic an asset for building more sustainable agriculture, but France and other European countries are struggling with delays in the payment of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies for farms transitioning to organic cultivation.
Report suggests basing Common Agricultural Policy payments on income not acreage and calls for curbing meat production
Beijing claims Europe is creaming off fat profits from oversubsidized cheese.
NGOs ClientEarth and BirdLife Europe on Wednesday (24 July) presented a complaint to the EU Ombudsman over the European Commissionโs decision to relax some of the environmental requirements under the blocโs Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
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On Thursday (11 July) the bloc dropped the target of making the use of photos taken by farmers with their smartphones mandatory by 2027, in a setback for ambitions to digitise Common Agricultural Policy checks on farmers.
The countryโs Council stint will be marked by political change in Brussels following the EU election.
Far right Rassemblement nationalโs (RN) President Jordan Bardella told business leaders on Thursday (20 June) he would cut Franceโs contribution to the EU budget by โโฌ2 to 3 billionโ should he be appointed prime minister after the snap elections โ thou…
Europe’s farmers are taking a stand โ and ruining it by playing “Barbie Girl.”
The EU Council gave its final green light on Monday (13 May) to a relaxation of the environmental rules under the blocโs Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which will apply until the end of the current period in 2027 despite vocal protests from green NG…
EU Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski told Euractiv he is grateful for the recent wave of farmers’ protests, which helped ensure a swift response to their problems with the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), a system that should be based …
A group of EU countries is calling to relax rules on mandatory practices to protect peatlands and wetlands under the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) only days after the European Parliament rubber-stamped an overhaul of six other environmental con…
Last week the European Parliament gave its final nod to a package meant to make the Common Agricultural Policy rules easier to apply for farmers and national administrations. But it is not the end of the CAP โsimplificationโ debate. It is just the begi…
MEPs gave a green light to the common agriculture policy (CAP) review to ease the administrative burden for EU farmers.Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Source : ยฉ European Union, 2024 – EP
MEPs from left-wing groups in the European Parliament will try to make changes to the Commissionโs proposal to relax some environmental requirements in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), to be voted on Thursday (25 April).
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As the European Parliament is paving the way for a swift approval of the relaxation of some environmental requirements in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the 2023-2027 period, NGOs are mobilising against the decision.ย
Addressing the inequities in our food system is essential to delivering justice for farmers and securing climate action.
Schemes to replace EU subsidies will not plug gap left by loss of EU subsidies for most farmersFarmers are calling for the government to grant them a universal basic income, saying the post-Brexit agriculture subsidy scheme has left many poorer.Delays …
In an interview with POLITICO, Valรฉrie Hayer doubled down on a record of centrism and compromise.
Tractors circle Place du Luxembourg and block roads around the EU capital.
The measures to loosen some of the environmental requirements of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) could come into force in 2024, with the European Parliament speeding up the approval of the Commissionโs proposal and member states broadly suppo…
The Commission presented on Friday (15 March) its simplification package to reduce the administrative burden of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), loosening some environmental requirements and allowing more flexibility for the member states in the i…
The European Commission’s move to slash environmental requirements for farmers comes as top scientists are urging just the opposite.
While starting at the grassroots level, the protests have been keenly exploited by Russia to sow division and undermine popular support for Ukraineโs defense.
Farming must change. Diets must evolve. Southern Europe is at risk. And disaster looms if EU leaders donโt act after Juneโs elections.
The EU executive proposed measures to loosen monitoring, controls and environmental requirements to alleviate the administrative burden of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on growers and member states, according to a document seen by Euractiv.
Madrid is bracing for traffic chaos on Wednesday as thousands of farmers are expected to protest against the latest government proposals, which they say are insufficient to maintain the economic viability of their farms and reduce the bureaucratic burd…
Spain will present a proposal to streamline administrative rules under the Common Agricultural Policy and strengthen mirror clauses in free trade agreements, such as the EU-Mercosur deal, to ensure that trading partners respect similar agricultural and…
In an attempt to calm farmers’ protests, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sรกnchez on Wednesday promised to strengthen the national food chain law, introduce reciprocity in the conditions for agricultural imports, the so-called “mirror clauses”, and simplif…
The European Parliament already rejected the contentious text, which the Commission President described as a “worthy aim.”
MEPs Terry Reintke and Bas Eickhout received strong support from party members.
After weeks of mobilisation across Europe, farmers’ protests seem to have gained a political foothold in the conclusions of the European Council summit on Thursday (1 February) which acknowledgedย the โconcerns raisedโ by the sector and the โessential r…
Flemish farmers drink morning beers on Place du Luxembourg as food producers rage about green tape from Brussels.
Caps put forward on sugar, poultry and eggs as farmers protest against Ukrainian competition.
French farmers are blockading key motorways around Paris for a second consecutive day this Tuesday. They are determined to show that they can hold out for several days if new measures due to be announced by the French government continue to disappoint…
New Prime Minister Gabriel Attal is scrambling to appease the agriculture sector as tractor protests escalate.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal is looking for a way out of his first political crisis as farmersโ protests spread across the country.
Amid growing farmers’ protests across the EU, the French EU Greens chief on Tuesday (23 January) called for a new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) that temporarily insures farmers’ pay and limitations on free trade deals that could undermine EU farmers…
Exclusive: Figures show hundreds of millions of pounds from promised ยฃ2.4bn a year on agriculture not spentThe government has been accused of breaking its promise to English farmers, with hundreds of millions of pounds missing from the farming budget.M…
European Union farming subsidies should be compulsorily capped to cope with the accession of agricultural powerhouse Ukraine, according to the EUโs Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski, as discussions heat up about the future shape of the next…
The Commissionโs strategic dialogue on the future of agriculture โ which will officially be launched in January โ will help set the course of discussions on the future shape of the EUโs Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), according to Agriculture Commiss…
Eleven EU member states, including France, are calling for greater “flexibility” in the previously derogated requirement to leave land fallow under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in a proposal that has left the European Commission perplexed.
EURACTIV visited Sรฉbastien Geens who, together with his brother, has taken over his mixed crop-livestock family farm in Villers-lez-Heest, a small village outside the Belgian town of Namur, to hear his thoughts about the future of farming.
Despite high ambitions to make farming greener, progress in the EU sustainable agriculture is stalling, according to a new Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which calls to tie the blocโs extensive farming subsidies more str…
Forget prophecies of empty coffers and huge cuts for founding members: Ukraineโs EU accession is the best thing that could ever happen to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
Evaluating the impact of Ukraine’s accession on the EU’s farming subsidies under the current criteria is not a relevant exercise as Kyiv’s EU membership will likely lead to the end of the Common Agricultural Policy as we know it today, according to Ukr…
A group of regional agriculture ministers in Brussels this week called for a far-reaching and fundamental reform of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) – but the European Commission remains hesitant.
‘My impression is that we wait for problems and then try to solve them,’ says former EU farm commissioner.
EU countries that have been given more freedom to design environmental measures under the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) are showing little ambition with measures that have very little positive environmental impact, a new study has found.
Dispute over food offers a taste of battles to come as Ukraine seeks to join the European Union.
European Union expansion is back on the agenda for Ursula von der Leyen but rapid growth is going to hurt.
With many of you back at work and holidays already feeling like a distant memory, the comeback from after summer always hits differently than the actual beginning of a new year.
The European Commission is not planning to allow farmers further exemptions on environmental measures for another year to boost cereal production, according to EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski, despite mounting pressure to do so from me…
Latest blow to sustainable farming incentive for nature recovery prompts warnings of โtough autumnโFarmers in England are being left without crucial nature recovery payments and unsure of what to plant after delays to a post-Brexit scheme.The sustainab…
As the EUโs Common Agricultural Policy is being implemented on the ground, we can start drawing lessons from practical successes and challenges for the future of the blocโs farm subsidies. As of January 2023, we experienced for the first time…
As inter-institutional negotiations get underway on the EUโs contentious nature restoration law, EURACTIVโs network took a look at how farmers across 10 member states are implementing nature-based solutions inย agriculture.
Germany’s federal states have agreed on proposals to improve the catalogue of eco-schemes, a new instrument under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to reward sustainable farming practices, whose take-up has so far been lower than hoped.
NGOs are suing the European Commission for having approved France’s national plan for implementing the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) despite allegedly breaching EU law – a move that French Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau calls a “destructive battle”.
The ‘Ukraine question’ will be the new Commissionโs single biggest political priority, and it will dominate politics in Brussels and other European capitals for years to come.
The EU’s agricultural subsidies budget does not need to be bolstered in the next period, despite calls to enlarge the farming fund, Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans told EURACTIV in an interview.
Most EU member statesโ national strategic plans for the reformed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) prioritise economically supporting farms at the expense of ambitious environmental measures, a study for the European Parliament found.
While introducing a ‘social pillar’ as part of the EUโs reformed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was a step in the right direction, the new instrument leaves out those sectors where violations of workersโ rights are most rampant, according to a Commis…
