Brussels recommends delay to ‘set-aside’ rules which have fuelled farmers’ protests – Europe live

Proposals that new rule requiring farmers to set aside up to 7% of land to boost biodiversity should not come into force until 2025

We spoke to a young Belgian farmer, Sylvain Dardenne.

He was sitting in his tractor in a street lined with parked tractors and flanked by police cars a few blocks away from the European parliament, when we approached him with questions.

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