European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, made major analytical mistakes in 2025, underestimating the despair and expectations of farmers with regard to the European project. She accumulated unfavorable decisions, antagonistic with her own vision of European agriculture, or at least the one presented by her Commissioner for Agriculture, Christophe Hansen, at the beginning of […]
Farm Europe and Eat Europe welcome the Commission’s package as an important starting point to strengthen food safety, enhance the resilience of the agri-food system and support innovation, while ensuring that the framework is workable for farmers and delivers a high level of protection for consumers. The package presented today by the European Commission on […]
Today, the European Parliament voted on the safeguard clause linked to the Mercosur agreement. Unfortunately, in the context of Mercosur, the work on reciprocity was rushed through, as it was not taken on board properly by the negotiators from the European Commission, nor from the Council, during the negotiation itself. The vote and adoption of […]
Today, the Council presidency and European Parliament’s negotiators reached a provisional agreement on the wine package, addressing challenges that wine producers face and unlocking market opportunities. Farm Europe warmly welcomes the work of Commissioner Hansen alongside rapporteur Esther Herranz García, as well as the Danish Presidency on this crucial improvement for the EU wine sector, […]
Last night, the Council presidency and European Parliament’s negotiators reached a provisional agreement on a set of rules that establish a legal framework for New Genomic Techniques (NGTs). The provisional deal on New Breeding Techniques is a glimpse of blue in an overcast sky for European farmers, finally paving the way to facilitate the uptake […]
The automatic trigger is welcome, but the EBA scheme should not be turned into a European EBR – Everything But Rice! With this approach von der Leyen’s Commission will facilitate import of products that pose threats to public health, including some that are linked to child labour practices Farm Europe and Eat Europe take note […]
The European Commission adopted today its communication for a European Bioeconomy strategy, which will play a crucial role in the European Union’s ambition to transform its economy and make it more sustainable, circular, and carbon neutral, in order to reach its climate and energy goals by 2030 and climate neutrality by 2050, while reducing its […]
Today, the European Parliament reunited in plenary adopted its amendments to the European Commission’s proposal, presented on 21 October 2025, aimed to simplify the EU anti-deforestation regulation (EUDR). This regulation is of utmost importance to European farmers and constitutes an essential tool to combat global deforestation and promote sustainable, fair trade, especially considering that the […]
Farm Europe welcomes the decision from the European Parliament to withdraw the urgent procedure concerning the Regulation on the bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Association Agreement. Prior to the vote, Farm Europe warned the MEPs that the urgent procedure would have undermined the capacity of the European Parliament to properly work on how to […]
“European rice urgently needs innovation to develop varieties that are increasingly resistant to climate change, as well as automatic safeguard instruments capable of protecting EU production from the massive inflow of products from countries that apply inadequate environmental and social standards.” This was the message delivered by Farm Europe and Eat Europe at an event […]