As Europe began its so-called Green Week, farm ministers and the European Parliament agreed to channel hundreds of millions of taxpayer money to intensive farming. The response of Greta Thunberg: “This is not how democracy is supposed to work.”

The EU has voted through hundreds of billions of Euros in public subsidies for intensive agriculture.

Overnight, agriculture ministers in Luxembourg and the European Parliament in Brussels agreed that at least two thirds of the EU’s farm policy (CAP) will go to farmers with little or no environmental conditions and tens of billions in public funds will go to the largest one percent of landowners.

On Monday, a report for the European Environment Agency found Europe’s nature in “serious, continuing decline,” with farming “the most common pressure.”

And, after an undemocratic and dramatic twist in the Parliamentary agenda, a large majority of MEPs voted for what the EEB dubbed a “stinking deal.”

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