Podcast Selection

Why the Commission is failing to ease farmers’ worries about Mercosur deal

Concerns over the EU’s trade deal with Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay have stalled negotiations for two decades. Now, the agreement is signed – but its opposition is far from sealed. Farmers worry it means…

Reforming the CAP? How the EU sees the future of its agriculture

Changing the rules on subsidising farmers is at the heart of a 100-page report on the future of agriculture set to feed a vision document due in the first 100 days of the Commission President…

Farmers take centre stage in parties’ EU election campaigns

After years of neglect in the public debate, agriculture has become a hot topic at the EU level in the past year, with issues like food inflation, farmers’ protests, and climate change impact on crops.…

EU leaders meet at a “summit of rural anger”

The state of the EU agriculture

Farmers’ protests making the headlines these days brought back agriculture in the EU political agenda. But what is the state of EU agriculture and how it is performing in economic, social and environmental terms? We…

The Russia-Ukraine grain deal is over. Who gains?

Russia has bombed grain stores in Ukraine and pulled out of a deal that had allowed safe passage of food exports through the Black Sea.Ukraine is a major exporter of grains, and the deal, brokered by the United…

Agrifood podcast: Gene editing and soil proposals, regenerative agriculture

Agrifood Podcast: Parliament battles over votes & CAP environmental exemptions

Young farmers and animal welfare label

This week, EURACTIV's agrifood team brings you to a young farmers' conference discussing sustainability in agriculture, where EURACTIV also spoke to EU's Green Deal chief Frans Timmermans. EURACTIV's Julia Dahm walks you through the potential…

Agrifood Podcast: Both sides of the import ban story

This week, EURACTIV’s Natasha Foote explores the fallout of the unilateral decision of frontline EU countries to ban agricultural imports from Ukraine with the help of Ukraine’s deputy agricultural minister, Markiyan Dmytrasevych, who explains the…

Agrifood podcast: Ukraine’s import ban, animal transport and a leak

Gerardo Fortuna and Paula Andrés speak on the key issues around Poland, Hungary & Slovakia's ban on the import of agricultural goods from Ukraine.

Agrifood podcast: What to watch in Strasbourg and Spanish water politics

This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team talks you through the main things to keep an eye on in the European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg, and EURACTIV’s Paula Andrés explores the water politics of the Spanish…