The EU executive has presented a new vision for Europe's agri-food system by 2040, scaling back its previous, more environmentally ambitious policy in response to growing protests from farmers. The new approach to agri-food policy, presented by the European Commission on Wednesday, focuses more on simplifying regulations and making farming an attractive profession than on raising environmental standards.

With this move, the Commission is moving away from its controversial farm-to-fork strategy, which was the agri-food component of the previous mandate's flagship policy, the European Green Deal. (Gerardo Fortuna, more at euronews.com)