Published in May 2020, the F2F strategy outlines how the wants to overhaul the food system to make it “fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly.”. This future “ to fork” food system would incorporate primary production (farming), the supply (value) chain and consumption. It shall have a neutral or positive environmental impact …

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: €291.1 billion for the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund, which provides income support for . €95.5 billion for the European Agricultural Fund for Rural …

The strategy would devastate . The U.S. Department of Agriculture finds that the strategy’s goals of reducing farmland by 10%, fertilizer by 20%, and pesticides and …

in the were angered by the removal of quotas on grain from Ukraine, meaning that the bloc was flooded with cheap produce. Photograph: Igor Tkachenko/Reuters. Polish began …

“The mass ’ protests that are taking place in many European countries, such as Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Greece, prove that the policies followed by the and the anti-popular governments, such as the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the “green” transition, have caused acute problems of economic survival for and stockbreeders.

10 of 16 | . A farmer walks past tractors on a blocked highway, Thursday, Feb.1, 2024 in Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris. Protests have been held across the for most of the week and hundreds of angry driving heavy-duty tractors arrived at headquarters, bent on getting their complaints about excessive costs, rules and bureaucracy heard and fixed by leaders at a …

The agricultural lobby has long expressed concerns about the implementation of key elements of the European Green Deal. One key battleground was the ’s “Nature Restoration Law”, intended to protect and enhance biodiversity in ’s ecosystems, which faced fierce opposition from the agricultural sector before it was passed in summer …

The resent the imports because they say they put pressure on European prices while not meeting environmental standards imposed on . Renewed negotiations to conclude a trade deal …

9:42am. Brussels ‘awoken by the sound of 1,000 tractors’. The “technocratic” does not “respect” , the leader of one of France’s biggest farming unions said, as Brussels was …

Figure 18.8 Sociologists look for signs of convergence and divergence in the societies of countries that have joined and departed the (). The United Kingdom voted to leave the , and after years of policy shifts, several new Prime Ministers, and negotiations, it formally departed in 2020 and ended most trade agreements in 2021.

By William Chislett Tractors driven by angry have inundated Madrid and other cities as part of protests in other countries, including France, the ’s largest agricultural producer …

One of the main grievances revolves around an ongoing revamp of the ‘s $59 billion Common Agricultural Policy. The describes this initiative as a “partnership between society and agriculture …

The has many good policies that help the working class, limits nationalism and borders, as well as some of it’s privacy policies help limit the wholesale monitization of people, it’s not . Over the United States, it’s a huge improvement. Give credit where it’s due there. But it’s far from the Utopia.

The ()’s new to Fork (F2F) Strategy 1 is lauded as a major advance in European food policymaking. Published in May 2020, it represents a first step towards genuine food …

This summary highlights the main European Commission initiatives relating to the Green Deal and to Fork Strategy with potential implications for agri-food exports from low- and middle-income countries, as of 8 December 2023. View full report. View short version. Published by AGRINFO on 20 Feb 2023 ; Revised 10 Apr 2024.

There is also new language on the need to “fight the far right” on the first page of the 10 page document, compared to an earlier January draft.. parties and leaders from across will gather on Friday and Saturday in Rome to endorse Jobs Commissioner Nicolas Schmit as the face of their election campaign, and officially support the manifesto.

The organizers, the Solidarity Union of Individual , said policies triggered the protest.. They said storage warehouses were filled with Ukraine grain, causing prices to fall 40% in 2023.

across the are against debts, price pressures, extreme weather and cheap imports. See the map of the and the factors behind them in this POLITICO analysis.

The Dutch government says it must reduce nitrogen emissions by 50 per cent by 2030 to meet targets. The BBB’s opposition to both the climate commitment and the compulsory purchase of farms …

Across the , over the winter, tractor convoys blockaded ports and major roads, sometimes for days, in some of the most severe in half a century. and the EU have had a sometimes testy relationship. What’s new is the shift toward the extreme right.

The Telegraph concluded, “The ’s approval of the scheme, which runs until February 2028, will last as long as Dutch agree to a ‘definitive’ closure of their operations.”

Hundreds of tractors and other agricultural vehicles rolled into Prague on Monday as protested against agriculture policies, which they consider unfair. The farming vehicles disrupted …

in have long felt like they are getting a raw deal from Brussels. In 2012, for example, sprayed milk at the European parliament to protest cuts to milk quotas. Dutch …

It’s now up to the Commission to build this new consensus and bring solutions forward, integrating them fully in the scope of the to Fork as a coherent package. The initial consensus. In May 2020, the European Commission proposed the to Fork (F2F) Strategy, the agricultural branch of the more holistic Green Deal to make …

The and the Eurozone: No Road to or Democracy. First published in Campaign Briefing (CLPD) Autumn 2013. by Kelvin Hopkins MP. The () is anti-. It is surprising therefore that some good socialists and trade unionists still have

With continuing to block roads and target key infrastructure across , several organisations are planning to further turn up the heat on policymakers and rally outside a meeting of …

The best example of this is the . “The spends more than a third of its budget on agricultural subsidies every year. It is the largest item in the budget […] Direct payments to are intended to compensate for losses incurred in the sale of agricultural products, for example due to low market prices.

Irish condemned national restrictions on beef farming that were part of the government’s Climate Action Plan. At level, demanded the repeal of the Sustainable Use Regulation, which aims to halve the use of pesticides on farms, and loosening of green farming requirements under the Common Agricultural Policy.

However, this money must be impounded from trillion-euro bank bailouts and the reckless military budgets of the warmongers. This involves uniting the behind a struggle of the working class to bring down the and its capitalist member governments, take power and build the United States of .

In 2021, the allocated €378 billion for CAP: 31.8% of its total budget for the six-year period 2021-2027. Of this mountain of euros, about 80% ends up in the pockets of the richest 20% of ’s . And the worst thing is, it’s hard to see a way out: these mind-boggling sums, and their unequal distribution, are based on the mid …

The bloc’s ambitious climate goals and green industrial policies are tipped to be one of the main mobilisers of the electorate in the European elections on 6-9 June.. Earlier on Wednesday, the …

bureaucrats’ pipe dream. The was constructed to counter the competition of U.S. imperialism and rebuild capitalist exploitation in after the mass destruction of the second imperialist war. It was built on the pipe dream that by uniting disparate governments in it could, over time, grow into a continent-wide juggernaut of a …

Political risks choke ’s green food plan. ‘Sensitive’ document suggests momentum behind to Fork strategy has stalled. The ‘s flagship green plan to reshape how we and eat is in deep peril, an internal European Commission document seen by POLITICO reveals, with many of the most ambitious reforms delayed or entirely blocked …

Amidst the ongoing ‘ protests across our continent, let us clarify some facts about agriculture, nature, and the ’s response so far. 1. The Green Deal is not the culprit. Green rules are being named as one of the key reasons for ’ dire situation. But the truth is that the ’s efforts to put in place tangible measures to …

TORIJA, Spain Feb 9 (Reuters) – Spanish on Friday blocked streets across the country in a fourth day of protests and announced plans to gather in Madrid as they railed against the ‘s …

We can proudly say that, also by having safeguarded a meaningful participation of local and regional actors, we now have a fair balance between the social, environmental and the economic dimensions of the CAP, whose ultimate goal remains to increase the productivity of agriculture to ensure food security in the , the incomes of the …

socialists fight battle on two fronts in election campaign. ‘s centre-left political family sought to unify behind a message of core economic values as the far-right is engaged in an all-out cultural assault on everything from open borders and support for Ukraine to climate policies. “We will not allow the return of austerity and …

In a powerful display of resistance, Polish have taken a stand by blocking their border with Ukraine. Frustrated with the influx of cheap imports escaping /Government regulations, they are challenging unfair policies and asserting their autonomy. This wave of discontent is not confined to Poland alone; it’s part of a broader movement spreading across

target aims to restore at least 20% of land and sea ecosystems by 2030 despite ’ protests and rightwing opposition. The European parliament has given the green light to a watered-down …

As we’ve made clear, the is not . There are many key factors about the that clearly demonstrate why it is not run along economic or political principles. These are: The has a capitalist economy. The has a free labour market. The has a private banking sector.