The time has come to get back on track with real good news for farmers

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 the mandate, which was initially promising. 

Over the last few months, there has been multiple superficial and insubstantial debates on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy, focusing mainly

• on a cost cutting policy under the pretext of focusing ‘on those who need it most’ ;
• a pretended simplification in the form of renationalisation that does not say its name and carries within it the seeds of fragmentation of the European market and its transformation into a battlefield ;
• not to mention the trade aspect, on which no serious dialogue has been possible to guarantee the credibility and sustainability of the EU trade policy toward its own Citizens. 

At the end of this necessary and unavoidable day, which puts agriculture back at the heart of the European debate, Farm Europe reaffirms its willingness to formally cooperate and put forward proposals that offer hope for a European agriculture that regains its strength and competitiveness in a world where agricultural sovereignty is a major strategic lever. If this cannot be achieved with the current Commission, this will have to be done by the co-legislators, fully assuming their responsibilities. 

It is to be hoped that this most needed debate, focusing on solutions to promote an ambitious vision of agricultural sovereignty, will finally begin, so as to prevent the current mandate from turning into a Berezina for Europe, its agriculture and its food value chain.