{"id":118873,"date":"2025-10-08T12:59:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/?p=118873"},"modified":"2025-10-08T12:59:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:59:33","slug":"meps-shred-few-remaining-environmental-safeguards-in-eu-farm-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/it\/meps-shred-few-remaining-environmental-safeguards-in-eu-farm-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"MEPs shred few remaining environmental safeguards in EU farm policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels, 8 October 2025<\/span><\/b> \u2013 In a vote today the European Parliament pushed ahead with a dangerous drive to \u201csimplify\u201d the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) by gutting its few remaining environmental protections, a move that will result in serious environmental damage, erode trust in democratic decision-making, and ultimately not improve the lives of the farmers it is meant to support, warns the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) \u2013 the largest network of environmental NGOs in Europe.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Th\u00e9o Paquet, Senior Policy Officer for Agriculture at the EEB, said:\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>The EU Parliament today failed to defend public interest and threatened the future resilience of EU farms by removing the few remaining environmental safeguards in the CAP. <\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Stripping away protections against\u00a0soil erosion and for vulnerable grasslands will not \u201csimplify\u201d farmers lives but expose them further to the escalating climate, nature, and pollution crisis. <\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Most alarming is the decision to allow public funds to subsidise polluting and destructive farming practices in Natura 2000 areas, which exist to protect Europe\u2019s most threatened species and their habitats.<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This vote endorses all the harmful amendments adopted by the AGRI Committee – a group of 49 MEPs, 10 of whom are farmers, while others have side jobs with Big Agri businesses, including Arla Foods, and links with powerful national farmers\u2019 unions [1]. This raises multiple concerns around conflicts of interest, as many of the businesses the MEPs are linked to would benefit financially from the proposed changes. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Out of all the proposed amendments, the EEB is most concerned about: <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n