Draft EU proposal hints at major rollback of Green Deal farm rules

The Green Deal headline commitment is to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050

The Commission's 'vision' roadmap in February for the EU farming and agri-food sector gave no inkling of wider scrapping of Green Deal commitments. File picture

Months of dreary EU jargon will have to be endured, as the Commission, Parliament, and member states start their summer squabble over seven-year EU budgeting, and the funding for the next common agricultural policy (CAP) is slowly hatched.

But the latest Brussels leak brings a little welcome relief from the tedium, as the Euractiv media network which specialises in EU affairs says it has seen a draft regulation in which the Commission proposes to cut links between the Green Deal and the CAP.