What a bewildering shift in recent times for Europe’s farmers. Long seen as national treasures, the EU establishment recently turned on them. Like Biden’s climate guru John Kerry, the Green ideologues in the European institutions now see farmers as embarrassing obstacles to saving the planet.
One of the defining features of the European integrationist project has been agricultural protectionism – long a major stone in the shoe of Australia-EU relations.
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