BRUSSELS – ANSWER. A new “battlefield” is developing agricultural policy her European Union against their “green” ambitions. Under the political pressure of the rise of the Greens, especially in Germanybut also the emergence of peasant political movements in countries such as the Netherlands, the European People’s Party seems to have finally found in European farmers a “privileged field” to maintain its political primacy in European electionsin 2024.

Referring to the agreement on agricultural policy, he proposes to “slow down” the halving of pesticides due to the war.

In this context, the EPP is expected to propose two amendments to “Green Deal” her commission to put on hold targets to halve pesticide use and restore a fifth of the bloc’s habitats by 2030. a sharp reduction in pesticides, which, however, will lead to a reduction in food production at the European level.

The second concerns a law providing for the “return” of unused plots of land to become habitats. These are good ideas, but they need to be implemented gradually, because otherwise there are risks for the food security of Europe, especially in the midst of the war in Ukraine.” explains “K” Romanian MEP Wigfried Muresan. But the main reason why the EPP will promote these changes is because “in this transition period for a green economy at the European level, while the socialists, the greens and the liberals (Renewed Europe) only care about the city dwellers, we EPP, we say on behalf of the farmers,” Muresan emphasizes.

To avoid misunderstandings that Europe’s largest political group is trying to “block” perhaps the most ambitious agreement of the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, which also belongs to the same Eurogroup, veteran German MEP David McAllister clarifies in our conversation that “we just want to adjust some of the proposed policies of Commissioner Frans Timmermans (ss belongs to the Socialist Eurogroup). We agree to reduce the use of pesticides, this is common sense, but the world has changed since the proposals were presented in 2019. We are now at war in Europe and we need to ensure the production of agricultural products that are exported at competitive prices. The main message here in Munich is that we support the farmers.”

At the same time, the Bavarian capital provided an opportunity to send a signal of unity and confidence in the victory of the EPP in the face of difficult electoral struggles in EU member states. but also European elections through the joint speech of the “host” president of the EPP Manfred Weber with the head of the Christian Democrats (CDU) Friedrich Merz and the Prime Minister of Bavaria and the head of the Christian Socialists (CSU) Markus Zender. The latter has made it clear who will lead the “Spitzenkandidat” (German for “leading candidate”) system in the upcoming European elections.

When Ursula von der Leyen’s name was mentioned, he said that “it can be if she wants it”, and Manfred Weber rightly asked that “there are no transactions behind closed doors”, emphatically recalling her personal history when she was the President of France. Emmanuel Macron overtook his candidacy to finally pave the way for the first woman to chair the Commission. Also of particular interest was the fact that Markus Sender clearly opposed cooperation with extreme right-wing parties. Georgia Meloni and his Matteo Salvini in Italy.