The text was in the sights of angry farmers. On Tuesday February 6, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen proposed the withdrawal of a legislative project aimed at halving the use of pesticides in the EU, blocked by MEPs.
“The proposal has become a symbol of polarization”, rejected at the end of November in the European Parliament while negotiations between States got bogged down, she noted in Strasbourg. “I will propose (to the commissioners) to withdraw this proposal,” she added, without excluding a future new version “much more mature, with stakeholder participation”.