The European Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, visited Greece on 5 October and Slovenia on 12 October to see the damage caused by the bad weather that has affected the two countries. These two EU Member States hope to be able to benefit quickly from support from the 2024 agricultural crisis reserve to help their hardest-hit farmers.
However, in view of the increasing number of extreme climatic events, a debate is underway at European level on the use of the crisis...