What future for agriculture in the EU?

We gladly relaunch a very well-constructed article by Dario Dongo on the topic of new GMOs: it is increasingly urgent that public awareness increase to try to stem this very dangerous drift.

The European Union is poised to implement a radical transformation of its agricultural policy through the proposed deregulation of New Genomic Techniques (NGTs), or ‘new GMOs.’ This reform project, supported by the European Parliament since 2019, and adopted by the Commission in 2023, had so far met with resistance from some member states. However, the latter finally agreed on March 14, 2025, to conclude the negotiations.

This crucial breakthrough is no cause for jubilation for all those who, like this writer, defend biodiversity, environmental integrity, public health and farmers’ rights. Denouncing the unscrupulous outrage against the precautionary principle, in defiance of the Treaty, and a direct attack on peoples’ food sovereignty.

A non-sterile critique of this subversive reform follows, to note its false premises, dangerous environmental and socio-economic implications, and obscuring consumers’ rights to know the identity of food. The Council’s mandate, far from fostering innovation, will consolidate the power of corporations and undermine the very foundations of sustainable and equitable agriculture.