Capitalism is based on individual initiative and favors market mechanisms over government intervention. is based on government planning and limitations on private control of resources …

can have more flexibility in how they fulfil this conditionality. Clarification to be presented and discussed with Member States in March. Revising the methodology to assess the quality of the Area Monitoring System. will receive up to 50% fewer on- visits; this will also free up resources in national administrations

Why are Protesting ? | Vantage with Palki Sharma across are protesting on board their tractors to press EU leaders to do more…

Feb 9, 2024, 2:15 AM PST. Tractors block a highway during a ‘ in northeastern Spain this week. Emilio Morenatti/AP. have blocked roads and sprayed government …

The is disregarding the climate emergency by continuing to give out billions of euros in subsidies to climate-intensive livestock farms at the same time as promising to cut emissions, say …

It seems the have European elites rattled, which is hardly surprising, given that elections are just around the corner. While the European Commission announced Tuesday it was still committed to achieving a 90% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in by 2040, it conspicuously omitted any mention of how the farming sector would …

Item 1 of 10 Tractors and other vehicles queue on the A1 highway during a protest over price pressures, taxes and green regulation, grievances shared by across , in Chennevieres-les …

http://www.euronews.com/ Small have protested outside the European Parliament to call for a bigger share of agricultural funds.They staged the dem…

In response, the Commission is taking action to stop a new rule, part of the ’s so-called to Fork strategy to deal with climate change, which would have required to cut their pesticide use in half by 2030. A sign of what was to happen began in 2019 in the Netherlands. drove their tractors to a protest of the Dutch …

The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies – for the rich, capitalism for the poor – and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonald’s is to food. In 2022, economist Yanis Varoufakis offered a similar version of this phrase in his …

4 of 5 | . FILE – Tractors are parked during a protest, near the Chateau de Versailles, outside Paris, Friday, March 1, 2024. The ’s executive arm on Friday, March 15, 2024 proposed to sacrifice even more climate and environmental measures in the bloc’s latest set of concessions to who appear bent to continue their disruptive tractor protests until the June elections.

April 5, 2023 – 12:20. Today the European Commission presented their formal reply to the 1,1 million citizens who signed the European Citizens Initiative “Save Bees and ”. They welcome the initiative as a clear sign of broad public support for action for pollinators, biodiversity and sustainable farming.

European must receive support to cope with increasingly volatile world food prices, the ’s agriculture chief argued, as he laid out plans for an agricultural policy that …

are angry at EU climate policies and food imports from Ukraine. Many similar have occurred across the 27-member EU in recent weeks, but this one was decidedly angrier than earlier …

Brussels has scrapped a recommended target for cutting agricultural greenhouse gas emissions as EU governments seek to quell from against the bloc’s ambitious green agenda. A …

Under the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014–2020 (the ’s seven-year spending plan), 38% of total funds is allocated to the CAP budget, that is, a total of 408.31 billion EUR. 308.73 billion EUR is allocated for direct payments and market measures, while 99.58 billion EUR is allocated for rural development.

The Common Agricultural Policy is funded through the budget. Under the ‘s budget for 2021-2027, €386.6 billion has been set aside for farming. It is divided into two parts: €291.1bn for the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund, which provides income support for . €95.5bn for the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development …

First, the Commission proposes to simplify some of the conditionality requirements with which need to comply. The set of basic standards- referred to as GAECs (good agricultural and environmental conditions)- that all must comply with to receive their CAP support has proven challenging to implement in certain circumstances.

Tanzanian mobilize for agroecology, food sovereignty and Pan-Africanism. On November 17-18, over 400 smallholder gathered for the 27th annual meeting of MVIWATA or the National Network of Small-Scale Groups in Tanzania. Peoples Dispatch spoke to them about their struggle for dignity and justice. November 25, 2022 by …

The Economics Overview (2018) found that the average hourly wage of workers was €7.90 in the -28 in 2015. Eurostat reported €23.1 as the ’s average hourly wage in 2017. worker wages are close to the minimum wages in most countries (see chart below). In Greece and Slovenia, workers earned less than minimum …

The has completed the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) trilogue negotiations and reached a provisional agreement. And while the European Dairy Association (EDA) said it’s a good deal, environmental groups have been scathing in condemning it. Milk and dairy products are among the ’s top agricultural sectors and the EDA said …

building of was considered an end in itself, and agriculture was used to serve that system as a supplier of cheap food for the non- population and as a supplier of needed labor for rapid industrialization and urbanization. The model used by these countries was that used for Soviet agriculture.

Today, the sector represents a tiny share of the ‘s economy: according to Eurostat, agriculture contributed €215.5 billion to the bloc’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2022. In relative terms …

According to Foucart, for in western European countries the main issue is the environmental measures being introduced under the Green Deal, which they say will burden them with extra …

More than 10,000 Dutch protested in The Hague on Saturday against government plans to limit nitrogen emissions, a policy they say will spell the end of many and hit food production.

The intertwining of farming sustainability and political interests in forthcoming elections – not just , but across the world – highlights the complex interplay between environmental policies and traditional sectors. As continue to across capitals, the electoral consequences may reshape political landscapes.

European have been taking their anger to the streets before Thursday’s summit. hold upside down road signs of Paris on a blocked highway, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024 in …

Farmer protests spread in ahead of summit. [1/5]A banner reads “Macron answer us” as French block a highway with their tractors during a protest over price pressures, taxes and …

The ’ protests, the far right and the fallout. Isabel Schatzschneider 15th February 2024. The must stop giving ground on its climate vows—unless it wants to help the far right ride to victory. Social substance but authoritarian style—the scene in Luxembourg Square in Brussels during a European Council meeting at the …

Margaret Thatcher (1976), once argued, “ governments . . . always run out of other people’s money,” and thus the way to prosperity is for the state to give “the people more choice to spend their own money in their own way.” Whether delivers on its appealing promises is an empirical question. We begin our

Spanish acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez looked set to clinch another term in office after his Party (PSOE) on Thursday secured the backing of Catalan separatist party Junts to form a …

How the war in Ukraine has derailed the to Fork initiative — and sparked a debate about what constitutes sustainable agriculture. In March 2020, the , unveiled its to Fork (F2F) strategy, an ambitious policy designed to reduce agriculture’s carbon footprint. The stated objective: to “accelerate our transition to …

The aim of farmsubsidy.org is to obtain detailed data relating to payments and recipients of subsidies in every member state and make this data available in a way that is useful to European citizens. Recent updates. Please have a look at the data changes as the platform is updated regulary and some numbers my change over time. November 2023

Giovanni Gentile, a neo-Hegelian philosopher, was the intellectual author of the “doctrine of fascism,” which he wrote in conjunction with Benito Mussolini. Gentile’s sources of inspiration were thinkers such as Hegel, Nietzsche, and also Karl Marx. Gentile went so far as to declare “Fascism is a form of , in fact, it is its …

This year, most have been countries and India. The grievances vary by country, but there’s one common message. can no longer bear the burden of economic and climate …

Countries across – the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Poland – all have one point in common. Their are unhappy with their lot. The movement, triggered by concerns over low wages …

Tractor-blocked motorways, barricaded border crossings, and fertilizer-sprayed office buildings mark the beginning of the new year as ’ protests spread across . Demonstrators, dissatisfied with both and national policies, have taken to the streets from Germany to France, Italy, Romania, Greece, Belgium, Spain, Poland, and …

November 9, 2022 7:22 pm CET. By Bartosz Brzeziński. Brussels has come up with a rescue plan to ensure European can obtain fertilizers needed to grow food for a world on the brink of a full-blown hunger crisis. Only it seems no one — apart from the Commission itself — thinks the plan will actually work.

have been protesting across to demand action from policymakers on an array of pressures they say the sector is under – from cheap supermarket prices, to low-cost imports that …

The Bedford Bureau Co-op, based at 102 Industrial Ave., Bedford, includes 690 who are its owners, stockholders and customers. Each member has an equal vote to elect the co-op’s 12 …