Stephen Cadogan: War could force relaxation of Green Deal

A gas pressure gauge of a main gas pipeline from Russia in the village of Boyarka near the capital Kiev, Ukraine on Thursday, Jan 1, 2009. Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom cut all natural gas supplies to Ukraine on Thursday morning after talks broke down over payments for past shipments and a new energy price contract for 2009. Picture: AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov

Significant pressures facing the EU’s agri-food sector after the Ukraine invasion were discussed by the 27 member states’ agriculture ministers by videoconference last week.

Following the meeting, the EU commissioner for agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, expressed his intention to: