Any drift towards the right could be disastrous for Europe’s climate agenda
It’s not just the ‘far right’ who weaponise climate policies for politically opportunistic reasons
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
Farmers need certainty on climate change measures
Reducing Ireland’s beef herd makes more sense than a huge reduction in profitable dairy cattle
Greater effort needed to extend nitrates derogation levels, IFA told
Minister told IFA the support of other EU nations was required to keep the present derogation, and water quality must be improved
Make no mistake, this will be a more eastern, more Balkan EU. What will that mean for Ireland?
Ireland has been consistent in its support for Ukrainian accession and offering humanitarian assistance to Ukrainian refugees. However, such support is about to be tested as the implications of what a bigger, poorer EU means come into focus
Ukraine joining EU would cause 20 per cent cut in CAP farming payments, study says
Ukraine would displace France as the largest recipient of CAP funding, according to leaked internal EU report
Restoration of lost biodiversity will be a long, arduous and likely unpredictable process
Intensive farming in particular is considered inimical to biodiversity and responsible for the substantial loss in this feature of the natural environment
Action needed to secure buy-in from sceptical farming sector on green measures
New era beckons for Irish farming after 50 years of EU membership
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