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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Ajit Niranjan

EU overhaul of farming strategy ignores vital green proposals, campaigners warn

The European Commission’s Raffaele Fitto (left) and Christophe Hansen give a press conference for the body’s new vision for agriculture and food, which proposes reforms to the common agricultural policy.
The European Commission’s Raffaele Fitto (left) and Christophe Hansen give a press conference for the body’s new vision for agriculture and food. Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA

European farmers will face fewer rules and less foreign competition, a new vision for agriculture promises, as environmental campaigners warn that key green proposals have been ignored.

The EU’s new farming strategy will overhaul the sector with targeted financial support, stricter import standards and a shift from “conditions to incentives” in the green strings attached to its vast subsidy scheme, according to the report published on Wednesday.

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