Pitchfork Politics - How Closed-Door Talks Around Europe’s Farmer Protests Rewrote the EU’s Green Rules

Pitchfork Politics - How Closed-Door Talks Around Europe’s Farmer Protests Rewrote the EU’s Green Rules

Lawyers have called it undemocratic. The EU’s watchdog has found maladministration. Two years after a wave of farmer protests swept across Europe, the political response that dismantled key environmental measures in the EU’s most expensive policy at breakneck speed has left an indelible mark on decision-making in Brussels. But just how this happened – and who had a place at the decision-making table – remains far less clear. In this investigatio…