In a fast track procedure, the European Parliament adopted proposals to water down the protection of nature in the EU’s agriculture policy. The Greens/EFA Group has made concrete proposals to improve farmers’ revenues: a fairer redistribution of subsidies towards small & medium farms, a guarantee that prices paid to farmers reflect the evolution of production costs, and better protection against unfair imports from third countries.
Christian democrats, liberals, national conservatives and the far right – who were side by side with farmers in the streets claiming they were fighting for better revenues for farmers – voted down all those proposals.