The Fratelli d’Italia party is capitalising on the Italian state’s failure to recognise Islam as an official religion to radically clamp down on what structures Muslims can turn into prayer space.
Fundamentally, the core of the problem is the EU’s adherence to the precautionary principle, which comes with a deeply unscientific intolerance for any risk.
A dispute over whether an artificial demand for biofuels would impact food prices had delayed the deal, with some cautioning that the infrastructure in place to produce green fuels was not up to scratch.
The EU’s Farm to Fork policy is not only facing strong opposition from agribusiness, but even the commissioner responsible for agriculture has expressed his reservations.
The evaluation is another test of the EU’s controversial antitrust legislation, which has previously been used for Big Tech regulation. This new probe affects a total of four Swiss-based companies.
