European Union sets out more environmental concessions for farmers

Protesting farmers with their tractors take part in a rally outside an agricultural fair in the city of Thessaloniki, northern Greece (Giannis Papanikos/AP)

The European Union’s executive arm on Friday proposed sacrificing even more climate and environmental measures in the bloc’s latest set of concessions to farmers apparently bent on continuing disruptive tractor protests until the June EU elections.

Angering environmentalists across the 27 nations, the Commission proposed to further loosen rules imposed on agriculture which they said, not so long ago, were inherent parts of the bloc’s strategy to become climate neutral by 2050.