After a year-long process involving 38 state organizations and dozens of individual representatives, IP rights has been selected as the topic for the 2024-2025 debate competition by The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS).
EU farmers are to get more flexibility around fallow land requirements to access public agricultural subsidies, the European Commission announced on Tuesday. Farmers growing crops like peas, fava beans and lentils, and other nitrogen fixing crops on 4% of their arable land will be considered eligible to receive Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) funding. Payments from the CAP, the European Union's flagship agricultural subsidy scheme, will also be available to farmers growing crops without pestici
Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, has stated that Ukraine will not abandon agricultural subsidies as part of the EU accession negotiations. Source: Stefanishyna in a comment ot European Pravda Details: Stefanishyna commented on a Reuters report citing a Ukrainian official who claimed that during the negotiations to join the European Union, Ukraine was willing to consider abandoning EU agricultural subsidies in exchange for easing the r
On 2 February, after more than a month's delay, the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, voted for the 2024 budget with strict debt limits and abolition of agricultural subsidies, which farmers had opposed.
Farmers have captured France's attention by showering government offices with manure and besieging Paris with traffic-snarling barricades of tractors and hay bales. The farmers say their protests aren't a moment too soon. Grievances have long been brewing in the European Union's leading agricultural power.