Farmers should not have to pay for wider political issues

It has always rankled for farmers that agriculture seemed to be a bargaining chip for the EU, in its many unsuccessful attempts to sign major free trade deals with other economic world powers. 3

billion in the EU agri-food sector, due to his generous offers in ill-fated world trade proposals. Presumably, the agri-food losses would have been acceptable to the EU because there was scope for gains in other economic sectors.

So it’s not such a big surprise now that farmers don’t want the EU to dip into their pockets to pay for another diplomatic misadventure.