With European Parliament elections just months away, the European Commission will set out its next major target on Tuesday to cut global warming emissions across the bloc, with agriculture - which produces 11 percent - a key part of the equation.

Politically, the timing could hardly be worse, with farmers' protests spreading across Europe – tractors were pushed in Brussels last week – and populist politicians riding a wave of discontent.

Environmental restrictions are high on the list of farmers' grievances - both long-standing rules from the bloc's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and new ones from a sweeping environmental green deal that has yet to come into force. (Julien GIRAULT, more at phys.org)