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Victory for Europe’s farmers as Brussels caves in on emissions targets and eating less meat

www.telegraph.co.uk Victory for Europe’s farmers as Brussels caves in on emissions targets and eating less meat

Ursula von der Leyen offers further concession by dropping her controversial proposal to halve pesticide use within six years

Victory for Europe’s farmers as Brussels caves in on emissions targets and eating less meat

The European Union has caved in to angry protests from farmers, cutting its target to scrap specific agricultural emissions which formed part of the bloc’s net zero drive.

A demand to reduce nitrogen, methane and other emissions linked to farming by almost a third has been removed from a wider Brussels plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90 per cent by 2040.

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