Insights and Stories on Environmental Regulations

EU allows member states to boost farmer payments after protests

Sep. 13, 2024 at 9:38 am CDT

European Union member states can increase the funds they pay to farmers, the European Commission said on Friday, after protests by farmers earlier in the year forced policymakers to scale back climate rules.

Australian farmers protest animal, environment policies they say harm them

Sep. 10, 2024 at 9:33 am CDT

By Peter Hobson Reuters

EU Parliament approves weakened green rules for farmers

Apr. 24, 2024 at 11:57 am CDT

By Kate Abnett Reuters

Europe’s restless farmers are forcing policymakers to act

Apr. 3, 2024 at 10:27 am CDT

By Kate Abnett Reuters

EU plan to ease farmers’ fallow land requirement stalls

Mar. 15, 2024 at 9:30 am CDT

By Anna Koper Reuters

EU countries to demand bloc does more to help farmers, draft statement says

Mar. 12, 2024 at 10:38 am CDT

European Union country leaders will urge the EU to work quickly on more measures to support farmers in response to months of protests by angry agriculture workers, draft conclusions for an EU leaders' summit showed.

By Jan Strupczewski Kate Abnett Reuters

Photo of protesting farmers facing a line of police in riot gear.

Tractors choke Spanish city streets as farmers protest EU policy

Feb. 8, 2024 at 9:45 am CST

Spanish farmers drove tractors through city streets, disrupting traffic on Thursday as they stepped up their protests against soaring costs, bureaucracy and cheap competition from outside the European Union.

By Reuters