Land

Green groups and MEPs have heavily criticised the three largest groups in the European Parliament for reportedly agreeing to back amendments to the Common Agricultural Policy file that would restrict the amount of funding available for the environment

The European Parliament has sent a ‘positive signal’ to the European Commission in adopting recommendations of the forthcoming plan of the future management and role of forests in the EU, according to state and private landowners and the conventional farming lobby

The EU should use its green deal to reverse a move towards industrial scale animal rearing that has transformed livestock farming in Europe to the detriment of the environment, green groups argue in a new report

Politicians in Brussels have reacted with anger to the news that France’s National Assembly has approved the emergency use of a pesticide banned in the EU in a bid to support beet farmers grappling with a virus spread by aphids

Members of the European Parliament have warned the European Commission and the European Food Safety Authority that they will reject bee protection standards again if the new expected proposal is ‘equivalent or worse’ than the one discussed since 2013