Slovakia and Italy have called for adjusting the Common Agriculture Policy by pushing back the policy and reconsidering a variety of EU's green ambitions.

This comes amid growing food security concerns in the wake of the war in Ukraine, writes Euractiv.

The Slovakian Ministry of Agriculture argues that it's "necessary to reconsider and partially correct" the targets within the EU's Farm to Fork strategy and biodiversity strategy.

This adds another voice to the list of countries calling for the European Commission to adjust the climate strategy.

Although there were signs in the beginning that the commission might consider this option, this move has since been rejected.

Italy has taken a step further

In the meantime, Italy has taken matters a step further.

Italian Minister of Agriculture Stefano Patuanelli has said that he supports measures recently adopted in the CAP on limiting agriculture production. He doesn't want to change certain decisions, but merely suspend them.

Italy has floated a proposal for using alloted areas and pastures for production purposes by, for instance, suspending rules on set-aside fields.

Such a move has also become a topic of discussion in Denmark with Danish MEP Asger Christensen proposing a similar solution. While supported by lobby organization Danish Agriculture & Food Council, Danish Minister of Agriculture Rasmus Prehn has rejected the option.

(This article was provided by our Danish sister media AgriWatch)

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