MEPs were divided, during a debate on Wednesday 17 January in Strasbourg, over the solutions to be found to appease angry farmers, who have been demonstrating mainly in Germany, but also elsewhere, notably in France and in Romania.
In Germany, the trigger was fuel taxation, but this is in addition to other problems linked in particular to the implementation of the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), notably the ‘eco-regimes’.
The CAP deemed ineffective. Herbert Dorfmann (EPP,...