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24 - Buttergate, dairy exports, super-trilogue
This week: EURACTIV takes a look at why butter is hitting the headlines in Canada and what implications this could have for the EU, and we talk about the upcoming ‘super-trilogue’ which has been called by the Portuguese Presidency this week in an attempt to finally wrap up CAP negotiations.
Canadian consumers are complaining about the quality of the country’s butter. Is that something we need to be worried about too?
In the midst of the pandemic, Candian foodies started to realise that something was amiss with their butter.
Meadows are biodiversity hotspots (Photo: strecosa, CCO)
With trilogues in progress behind unacceptably closed doors, the Commission has released another document on eco-schemes. What is revealed in this document is some standard and expected good options, along with yet more weakening of the green elements of the CAP. Central to this is the new inclusion of a pet project of the Agriculture Commissioner – animal welfare. None of this bodes well for eco-schemes, more or less designed to replace the failed greening idea of the last CAP. While it’s a good sign that the Commission is still in the game, eco-schemes look to be in some trouble. They may yet end up with less of the CAP budget than even greening had. And with voluntary uptake for farmers, the traditional story of ever decreasing environmental ambition in the CAP seems to be occurring, whatever about the reality of severe ecosystem stresses like climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse.