EU allies demand answers from Ukraine over escalating corruption scandal
Kyiv’s partners want reassurances on how aid is spent after a probe exposed a $100M kickback scheme.
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Which farmers should the EU save? Let the battle begin.
Small versus large, young against long-established โ farm policy reform sets up clash over scarce funding.
Hereโs what Ursula von der Leyen SHOULD say in her State of the Union (according to us)
The European Commission president gives her big annual speech on Wednesday. POLITICO tries to work out what messages she’ll send.
Czechia wants election front-runner Babiลก to repay over โฌ200M in subsidies
Government demand raises stakes ahead of Oct. 3-4 general election.
Brussels heads for a fall fight over limiting subsidies to big farms
Most European farmers wouldnโt feel the pinch from the new rules, but large landholders could lose out massively.
Greeceโs Mitsotakis blocks probe into ministers over massive EU farm funds fraud
The prime minister is wielding his parliamentary majority to prevent a full-scale investigation into ministers suspected of wrongdoing.
Brussels slashes the EU farm budget, calls it a win. Farmers call it a declaration of war.
The European Commission says itโs protecting farmers with a smaller but ring-fenced budget. Europeโs farmers say the cuts betray a post-World War II pact.
Brussels backs off from big farm shake-up. Cuts are coming anyway.
The European Commission tried to gut the EU farm budget. Farmers, ministers and lobbyists fought back and won. But with funds shrinking, the pain is only delayed.
Has Bulgaria gamed its inflation numbers to qualify for the euro?
An 82.8 percent plunge in state-set hospital fees helped Sofia make the grade to join the single currency.
EU fines Greece โฌ400M over farm aid debacle
Brussels imposes massive fine after finding systemic failings in Greeceโs management of farm subsidies from 2016-23.
EU farm plan earmarks more cash for disaster relief even as it loosens green rules
Proposals to slash red tape risk clashing with earlier recommendations to make farming more resilient.
Trumpโs minerals deal with Ukraine leaves scramble for how to handle Russia
White House officials are weighing next moves.
Austriaโs new government backs greener farm subsidies, food origin labelling
Vienna wants the environmental requirements to be retained and a EU capping of direct payments.
5 takeaways in the EUโs big agriculture (and food) vision
EU tries to make farming sexy again โ and keep farmers from revolting.
โAll must be beheadedโ: Revelations of atrocities at French energy giantโs African stronghold
Mozambican soldiers operating out of TotalEnergies’ natural gas plant abducted, raped and killed dozens of civilians.
Spat over subsidies breaks EU consensus on future of farming
EU agriculture ministers failed to reach their conclusions on the future of farming at a meeting on Monday (24 June) due to Romaniaโs disagreement on a point on the equalisation of subsidies between member states.
Slovak government scrambles for arguments amid EU farm subsidy delay
Slovak Agriculture Minister Richard Takรกฤ is keeping quiet about his meeting with European Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski over the delayed release of EU farm subsidies, known as direct payments, which the Slovak government has still not …
Slovakia delays payments to farmers, EU canโt intervene
Slovakia’s government has delayed paying EU farm subsidies, known as direct payments, to eligible farmers who, despite joining the biggest farmers’ protests in the country’s history, risk not receiving them as the European Commission confirmed the situ…
Tie farming subsidies to performance, OECD tells EU
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…