As the rumble of tractor protests grows, the EU offers more environmental concessions to farmers

The European Union’s executive arm proposed weakening even more climate and environmental measures in the bloc’s latest set of concessions to farmers apparently bent on continuing disruptive tractor protests until the June EU elections.

Angering environmentalists across the 27 EU member states, the European Commission proposed to further loosen rules imposed on agriculture, which it said, not so long ago, were instrumental to the bloc’s strategy to become climate neutral by 2050. That iconic challenge put the EU in the global vanguard of fighting climate change.