Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, announced in her State of the Union address on Wednesday 13 September that she wanted to “launch a strategic dialogue on the future of agriculture in the EU”.
This is the first time that, in an occasion of this kind, she has quoted and paid tribute to farmers, “as the consequences of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, climate change bringing droughts, forest fires and flooding, all having a growing impact on farmers’...