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After many tensions, reproaches and power games, finally, the plenary session of the European Parliament gave the green light this…

French farmers have engaged in a standoff with the government to express anger over a perceived lack of respect, rising costs and suffocating EU regulation. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal seeks to calm the protesters while the far-right National Rally hopes to take advantage of their anger, just five months before the European elections.

Former minister Chris Skidmore who is quitting today as a Tory over a row on climate change policy earns £80,000 a year from the green industry for eight days of work.

The current 10-year trend is “going in the wrong direction”, warns the worrying environmental report.

Talking Europe hosts Pascal Canfin, the chair of the environment committee at the European Parliament. He is a former French government minister and a former director of the French branch of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). We take a look at what is coming out of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, and at the state of the EU’s green transition. Canfin maintains that 80 percent of the laws planned under the EU’s Green Deal should be finished by the end of the current legislative term – something he calls “massive and unprecedented”.