On Monday 5 December, the European Parliament agriculture committee discussed the own initiative report by Maria Noichl (S&D, Germany) on the concentration of agricultural land in the EU and how to facilitate access to land for farmers.
In her draft report, Noichl shows that land grabbing, which is often associated with developing countries, is also taking place in the EU (In Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria in particular). Added to this is the artificialisation of the soil due to urbanisation....