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#EU: The farmers persuade Brussels at Election time. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.

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🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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#EU: The farmers persuade Brussels at Election time. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.

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which I recommend you sign up for were coming to the parliamentary elections and you

0:44.0

bet it's part of the American future dealing with the European Union after the Ukraine

0:49.2

whenever that is is going to be vital for the economy of the US, especially with the troubles in East Asia.

0:57.0

We turn now, however, to a huge debate that is also a big debate in the US once upon a time the farm lobby.

1:04.4

Our farms are now dominated by huge corporate interests, vast landscapes.

1:09.8

However in Europe the individual farm representatives in individual countries have voices, and

1:18.8

the voices are vivid and heard acutely, as I understand it it by the individual governments and now they're

1:25.7

heard by Brussels.

1:27.4

Judy, I simplify, but I wanted to say what I read this morning was, Ms. van der Leyen, the president of the European Commission,

1:36.9

who represents a center-right party, this is the way the Financial Times presented it, has changed the position of the party from all green all the time

1:46.8

to taking a step back about pesticides and their uses in the European Union. This is seen as a concession to the farm vote in individual states,

1:57.0

but at the same time for the parliamentary election.

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