With the damage done, France’s foreign minister tried to walk back the president’s statement.

Transparency chief on “democracy tour” to fight the ‘undemocratic’ beliefs of a majority of Europeans.

Ignoring the concerns of farmers, EU member states will now have to make swathes of their territory unfarmable by 2030.

A parliamentary aide faces a year in prison for using his boss’s Twitter account to search for nude photos.

Whether the measures requested by the agriculture ministers will be implemented—or make a difference to farmers—remains to be seen.

The EU has made agriculture an industry like any other, a transformation almost in opposition to nature.

Fishermen also joined the protests, which took place at the same time as demonstrations in Brussels.

Farmers are surrounding EU institutions with strategic blockades, in their latest initiative to defend rural life against the Green Deal.

“We are determined, we are motivated and we are committed to Ukraine’s victory,” said one of Macron’s top advisers.

Populists are understandably concerned such an organisation could be politicised to spy against them.

Campaigning for reelection—and dogged by farmer protests against cheap Ukrainian imports—von der Leyen has abruptly mothballed the Ukraine question.

Antisemitism has surged in the EU capital in response to Israel’s war against the Islamist terrorists of Hamas