Europe’s Angry Farmers and EU Funds for Ukraine (Finally) – POLITICO

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As farmers’ protests continue across Europe, we unravel their concerns and analyze their impact on European elections. We will also take you to an extraordinary meeting of EU leaders in Brussels, where vital funds for Ukraine were at stake.

Host Sarah Wheaton speaks to POLITICO’s parliamentary correspondent Eddie Wax amid thousands of tractors and angry farmers in the heart of Brussels. Later in the episode, we hear from inside the company about what’s behind the farmers’ revolt and how the protests could affect her EU’s ambitious environmental policies and her upcoming EU elections. Experts explain. They will be joined by Claire Callcutt in Paris, Matthew Kalnicznig in Berlin, senior climate correspondent Karl Matthiessen and agriculture reporter Bartosz Brzezinski. And we heard from protesting farmers in France who told our colleague Victor Gary Lafont about their biggest concerns.

Also in this episode, we head across town to an extraordinary meeting of EU leaders. POLITICO’s chief Brussels correspondent Barbara Moens and senior diplomatic correspondent Jacopo Barigazzi discuss the successful outcome after weeks of intense negotiations over financial aid to Ukraine.

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