Map: farmers protests lead to concessions almost everywhere on 04/03/24
Since the start of 2024, farmers have been demonstrating in almost every European country, winning concessions from national governments and opening the debate on measures at the EU level. My food chain law is better than yours on 01/03/24
This week began with EU countries calling on the European Commission to "reorientate" the CAP. At the Council meeting last Monday, member states discussed some of the EU executive's proposals to make the CAP simpler, and pushed for more. One of the areas to explore is the protection of farmers in the food chain. Following Latvia, Poland considers import bans for Russian, Belarusian grain on 01/03/24
Poland will study Latvia’s decision to ban agricultural imports from Russia and Belarus and will look at imposing embargoes for grain to prevent it from destabilising the Polish market, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced at a press conference with his Latvian counterpart, Evika Siliņa. Former top EU official: Polish farmers, stop blaming Kyiv and Brussels for low prices on 29/02/24
The way out of the ongoing crisis of food imports is through the EU and its safeguards and not via the "populist" game of blaming it on Ukraine or Brussels, Poland's former deputy minister of agriculture and director general at the European Commission, Jerzy Plewa, told Euractiv in an interview. EFSA to ask Commission to ‘relaunch’ chief executive selection process on 29/02/24
The management board of the EU’s food authority EFSA is ‘not satisfied’ with the outcome of the recruitment process for a new chief executive and will ask the European Commission to ‘relaunch’ it, the board’s chairman said in a statement on Thursday (29 February). Poland, Ukraine negotiate temporary border closure to stabilise Polish market on 29/02/24
The Polish government is negotiating a temporary closure of its shared border with Ukraine so that Ukrainian agri-food production does not destabilise the Polish market anymore, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on Wednesday. EU Parliament strengthens quality safeguards on traditional European foods on 28/02/24
The final version of the revised regulation on Geographical Indications (GIs), approved on Wednesday (28 February), boosts protections for food products and producers, though the Greens criticised the lack of mandatory environmental commitments. The state of the EU agriculture on 28/02/24
Farmers’ protests making the headlines these days brought back agriculture in the EU political agenda. France approves decree to ban meat names for plant products amid legal uncertainty on 28/02/24
In the midst of an agricultural crisis and farmers' protests, France published a decree banning the use of meat names for plant-based products, while the EU's top court is still due to issue a ruling clarifying the compatibility of such a move with the EU legal framework. EU and Ukrainian farmers at odds on renewal of trade benefits for Kyiv on 27/02/24
EU farmers' organisations welcomed a vote in the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee calling for more safeguards against food imports in the context of a recent Commission proposal for renewing trade liberalisation measures for Ukraine.
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