🗣️At the High-Level Conference celebrating 10 years of the #EU4AnimalHealth Law, @M_Higuera, Chairman of the @COPACOGECA's Working Party on Animal Health & Welfare, shared farmers' perspective on its implementation.
🇪🇺 farms are increasingly exposed to transboundary animal diseases due to climate change, wildlife interactions and animal movements. While the Animal Health Law remains a strong and robust framework, consistent implementation across Member States can be improved through greater flexibility, ensuring the rules remain fit for future challenges.
💪A strong Animal Health Law requires strong financial support for disease prevention, surveillance, biosecurity, outbreak response, eradication, as well as research and innovation.
Thank you @Europarl_EN for finally approving the NGT file. EU agriculture needs this. To be more robust for droughts, disease and to generally boost good sustainable food production benefiting farmers, consumers, the environment and our general preparedness.
Thank you EP for finally approving the NGT file. EU agriculture needs this. To be more robust for droughts, disease and to generally boost good sustainable food production benefiting farmers, consumers, the environment and our general preparedness.
Thank you EP! For approving this important tool. Farmers have been waiting for this. Now EU agriculture can be more robust, more productive and more sustainable and at the same time strengthen our preparedness . https://t.co/9377eWGtn3 via @Europarl_EN
🌱 Today's ENVI vote marks a significant milestone for European agriculture !
By endorsing the @EUCouncil's first-reading position, the European Parliament moves closer to delivering an 🇪🇺 framework on NGTs that will strengthen food security, support sustainability, ensure fair competition and unlock innovation in Europe for farmers.
🔴For the 3⃣rd year in a row, European cereal producers are in the red economically, losing up to €500 per hectare. This situation is becoming increasingly structural and should raise concern well beyond the farming sector. What is the main driver? Fertilisers and their prices.
While crop prices remain relatively stable, fertilisers prices have seen a dramatic increase in the EU, creating a scissor effect ✂️
To make the situation worse, starting in 2026, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), enforced by the @EU_Commission impose additional tariffs on imported goods with higher CO₂ emissions, including fertilisers.
📌On Monday 13th, the European Commission will organise a high-level meeting in Brussels on this issue. Ahead of that event, we wanted to set the record straight with a video showing how cereals and arable farmers are really impacted on the ground.
One thing is certain: if we don’t act now, the future of EU cereals, all other arable crops, and the 🇪🇺 farmers who grow them is at risk. And that is a future none of us can afford!
We support our colleagues in Strasbourg. For us the biggest problem is the unbalanced deal for agriculture with double standards in combination with less money for and a weaker CAP and no real simplification in times of uncertainty.
🔴 LIVE | Farmers are gathering in Strasbourg
📍 Place de Bordeaux
The @EU_Commission is failing us! We will march to the @Europarl_EN to ask MEPs to support farmers, not abandon them by:
✅ Referring Mercosur to the ECJ -> TOMORROW
✅ Stopping the CAP butchery
✅ Simplifying the rules
Today, we turn promises into accountability.
#FarmersProtestEU
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End of the protest at Arts-loi 🙏🏻 Thank you to 10 000 farmers who came to Brussels today. Have a safe travel home ➡️
📣 THIS ISN’T OVER! The protest may end today, but the fight continues. Tag the Commission, your Member States, your MEP and demand:
✔️ Stop the Mercosur deal!
✔️ Fund the CAP properly, do not destroy commonality!
✔️ Simplify rules for farmers!
#EnoughSmokeAndMirrors
We will stand for European agriculture, European food security #FarmersProtestEU
Yes! Swedish tractor arrived and that is a symbol! From so far away, with such dedication to make a difference . To make our voice heard. Tomorrow you must talk to us #presidentvonderleyen
Yesterday a tractor started driving to Brussels from Sweden. It’s already in Germany. Hopefully reaching Brussels on Thursday morning. It’s driving for a better EU that supports and enables farmers to produce more and more sustainably. https://t.co/tnBTDQEyet
Important manifestation. Farmers from all over Sweden will join this demonstration. First time for at least 20 years. It’s a historical moment. But no more promises and nice words without actual delivering policy that will work in practice and give us a brighter future.
🚨 Farmers from 25 🇪🇺 countries are preparing to unite in Brussels on 18 December 2025 to march:
❌ Against unacceptable CAP reforms and EU budget cuts
❌ Against unfair EU trade policies
❌ Against burdensome bureaucracy
🌫️😶🌫️ ENOUGH SMOKE & MIRRORS WHEN OUR FARMING AND FOOD SECURITY ARE AT RISK 🌫️😶🌫️
Historic moment for LRF first time participation in @COPACOGECA WP wine chaired by Luca Rigotti with Swedish wine producers. Wine production in Sweden is still in a start up phase using modern methods. Climate change pose both opportunities but also challenges.
Unacceptable; an increase of the overall budget but a clear cut to the CAP, undermining a cornerstone of the internal market our food security and peace! As well as mixing it up with cohesion funds and leave it in the hands of national priorities. Where is the EU??
Agriculture and cohesion remain at the heart of our budget.
They are central pillars of European solidarity and investment.
Investing in people, Member States and regions.
Safeguarding farmers’ livelihoods.
And dedicating strong resources to social policies.
👨🌾Farming delegations from across 🇪🇺 are gathering in front of the @Europarl_EN welcomed by many MEPs for the start of today's action and symbolic protest walk towards the @EU_Commission on #MFF and #CAP proposals!
https://t.co/nIyDojTDGj
High level meeting today with @CHansenEU@JessikaRoswall and @peterkullgren on a typical Swedish dairy farm with crops and forestry. MFF, CAP, generational renewal, bioeconomy were some issues raised. Ending with discussions with LRF General Assembly. Cooperation at its best!
@Europarl_EN we support sanctions but really miss an impact assessment on what this means for EU agriculture and food security and a fertiliser strategy that ensures we have access to a variety of EU produced nutrients and fossil free alternatives. https://t.co/sT8cb691ND
@Europarl_EN We support sanctions but really miss an impact assessment on what this means for eu agriculture and food security and a fertiliser strategy that ensures we have access to a variety of EU produced nutrients and fossil free alternatives https://t.co/sT8cb691ND
Today united for our message to @EU_Commission that Europe’s peace, food security and prosperity are depending on farmers. A strong and common cap budget is a fundamental cornerstone in EU policy ensuring stability and a truly common EU single market.
📢 Get ready for the flash action #EUhouseofcards happening in Brussels and across 20 EU countries!
Our message to @EU_Commission this morning is cristal clear: Without a protected, dedicated budget for agriculture, EU agri-policy could collapse like a house of cards.
We cannot accept:
❌ Dissolving the CAP into a single fund
❌ Further renationalisation
❌ A rushed CAP proposal in July with no clarity on funding, governance, or proper consultation
If you're in Brussels, join us from 10AM at the Schuman roundabout! 📍