The Twenty-seven ask Brussels for more urgent measures to calm the anger of the countryside. EU agriculture ministers have met to discuss how to ease the bureaucratic burden amid a tractor protest that has blocked the center of the Belgian capital.

The short-term proposals presented by Brussels to simplify some environmental requirements that farmers must meet to benefit from Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payments, the so-called conditionality, “are going in the right direction (…) but they are not enough”, summarized the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, David Clarinval.