Environmentalists' excitement over the suspension of the Green Deal for part of EU farmland is overdone.
It is true that, unlike many countries in Africa and the Middle East, the EU does not depend on grain from Ukraine and Russia.
She can easily take care of herself.
When feeding animals, however, the EU cannot easily compensate for a loss of grain deliveries.
Therefore, it makes sense for the EU to allow farmers to use the protein crops they grow on land that is actually reserved for species protection.
Nor is now the time to complicate food production with further environmental and fertilizer regulations.
This does not mean that the cautious reorientation of agricultural policy towards climate and environmental goals that has just been decided must be reversed so that the EU can again generously subsidize the production of as much food as possible.
The recipes of the past century remain wrong even in the post-Ukraine war world.