have faced numerous challenges due to environmental regulations imposed by their respective governments and the . In the Netherlands, another country beholden to …

Since the 1960s, has been working tirelessly to protect the interests of European , feeding the future of the by providing safe, nutritious food, defending the climate, and leading the way in the development of a sustainable bioeconomy. Ensure a fair standard of living for while maintaining our …

April 2, 2024 5:00 am CET. By Zia Weise. BRUSSELS — A specter is haunting the : The specter of the Green Deal. ’s Socialists are running scared. Over the past year, an alliance has formed to exorcize this specter: Populists and conservatives, nationalists and , French centrists and German liberals — all …

Kurt Zindulka. 6 Feb 2024. The farmer uprisings across the continent have forced the globalist leadership in Brussels to back down from key elements to its green agenda to achieve “net zero” emissions — for now. Following major wins last year in The Netherlands, tractor protests from secured another significant …

The ideological makeup of the European Council will likely change. Recent political events in confirm the growth and consolidation of conservative right-wing parties, a trend that started in 2015 in Poland and has been steadily growing since then. Only five of the 27 member states are now under -led governments …

The are also holding the itself responsible for their situation. With a budget of €53.7 billion for the 2023-2027 mandate, the Common Agricultural Policy …

Marketwatch, Moneyish and Barron’s. protested outside the ’s headquarters in Brussels on Thursday as leaders met to discuss financial aid to Ukraine. WSJ’s Stacy …

When the United Kingdom leaves the at the end of the month, it will sever ties with ‘s subsidy policies—and to many researchers, that is a good thing. Last week, the U.K. government proposed radical changes to £3 billion a year in agricultural spending that will focus the money on benefits to climate, ecosystems …

The shelved an anti-pesticide proposal Tuesday in another concession to after weeks of protests that blocked many capitals and economic lifelines across the 27-nation bloc.

Over half of French farms would go bankrupt without subsidies. But 80 percent of the aid and subsidies are grabbed by the biggest 20 percent of .

The has caved in to angry protests from and cut a target to slash agricultural emissions as part of the bloc’s net zero drive. A demand to reduce nitrogen, methane and other emissions linked to farming by almost a third has been removed from a wider Brussels plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90 per cent by 2040.

The ‘s common agricultural policy (CAP) accounts for about a third of the budget, with some €54 billion ($64 billion) in farming subsidies going to the bloc’s 27 member states …

The Common Agricultural Policy, or CAP, is the ’s largest budget item. For the €60 billion (£53.9 billion) a year it pays in subsidies, the CAP is expected to support farmer …

The to Fork (F2F) Strategy at the heart of the ’s Green Deal set out to create a “just transition” towards a sustainable food system, with benefits for all actors. We conducted a critical discourse analysis (CDA) to explore discourses around power in the food system and ’ position in the communication and implementation of the to Fork Strategy. Discourse …

On Dec. 20, President Donald Trump signed the 2018 U.S. Bill into law. Meanwhile, lawmakers have been debating a Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) for 2020. Both of these policies will have strong implications for global trade and for the agricultural economies of both developed and developing countries.

’ protests have subsided somewhat in France, following government concessions, but continue in many countries across . They were sparked by new rules which require a certain proportion of fallow land, crop rotations, and reduced fertiliser use. The is now stepping back. German object to the phasing out of tax breaks on agricultural diesel; Netherlands …

BRUSSELS (AP) — The ’s executive arm shelved an anti-pesticide proposal Tuesday in yet another concession to after weeks of protests that blocked many capitals and …

A typical cow in the receives a government subsidy of $2.20 a day. The cow earns more than 1.2 billion of the world’s poorest people. ~ Mark Vaile, Australian trade minister in …

The is on the brink of approving a major plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the bloc after protests from and opposition from the biggest party in …

in Spain, Italy and Poland demonstrated on Friday as part of ongoing protests against farming policies and to demand measures to combat production cost hikes, reduced …

Defense Force vice president Jos Ubels poses for a portrait at his in Anderen, Northern Netherlands, Monday, March 18, 2024. Ubels feels that everything from overbearing bureaucrats insisting when should sow or harvest, imposing excessive restrictions on fertilizer and manure use and unfair international competition condoned by the have created a potent mix …

6 min. According to various media reports, the () ’ protests mainly centre on the ’s declining agricultural subsidies, the environmental policy to reduce chemicals …

Convoys with hundreds of angry driving heavy-duty tractors arrived at the headquarters in Brussels. #Live # #Protest Read more …

is pushing ahead with world’s most ambitious climate and biodiversity targets. Water cannon fired as police clash with protesting in Brussels. The is on the brink of …

Family farming is the most common operational farming model in – representing 97 per cent of the ’s () 12 million farms. Thus it is of great importance in the . It covers a diverse range of situations, including farms of all sizes.

It seeks to ensure that U.S. and ranchers — a key constituency for President Donald Trump and Republicans — don’t bear the brunt of an escalating trade fight with China, the and other major economies as the administration pursues an aggressive course to rebalance America’s trade relationships.

in post- Central and Eastern are the major beneficiaries of the ’s () Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), at least in monetary terms.

8. . Across the 14 countries surveyed, few express positive views of . Only six parties (of the 59 tested) are seen favorably by half or more of the population. Populist parties across also receive largely poor reviews. Of the 21 populist parties asked about in the survey, only six receive …

The provides $65 billion to each year. It’s the largest line item in the . budget and one of the biggest subsidy programs in the world.

The police responded by using water cannon and tear gas. Dozens of tractors sealed off streets close to headquarters as protested anything from what they see as excessive red tape to increased environmental measures, cheap imports and unfair trading practices. (AP video: Sylvain Plazy)

is a think tank that aims to stimulate thinking on rural economies in the . The think tank focuses on all policy areas that impact on rural business with a strong emphasis on agriculture and food policies, particularly the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), but also food standards, the food chain, environment, energy and trade issues.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

Spanish police on Saturday clashed with a group of and truck drivers in Madrid as they tried to access a main road in a bid to block it, one of several protests sweeping the …

Given the importance of these issues, we are publishing two assessments of Lapavitsas’s book followed by his extensive response. “ Internationalism Against the ” by Neil Davidson. “ Navigating the Brexit Strait ” by Andy Storey. “ Learning from Brexit ” by Costas Lapavitsas. — the Editors.

“ is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” – Winston Churchill. The above quote reminds me of what is currently happening in the . You have countries that are doing well having to pay more than countries that are not doing so well.

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.

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