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hello and welcome to State of the Union I’m Stefan groba in Brussels the situation in Europe’s Southeastern neighborhood escalated dramatically over the past days following two weeks of Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon and the killing of the leader of Iran back terrorist group Hezbollah tan hit back at least 180 missiles were fired at Tel Aviv and other Israeli locations causing only minor damage the reason is that most of the missiles were intercepted by Israel’s air defense and us and British forces operating in the region International observers are now worried that future strikes could push the region closer to the brink even before the Iranian attack the EU foreign policy chief called upon the party’s concern to avoid further blooded Ula rockets and other projectiles into Israel territory since govern has to stop the sovereignity of both Israel and lebano has to be guaranteed and any further military intervention would dramatically aggravate the situation and it has to be avoided on the other side of the Mediterranean Michelle barer Finally Revealed his carts the new French prime minister delivered his first political address to the National Assembly announcing further Bell tightening and further the taxes to reverse spiraling debts he asked the wealthiest individuals and large companies to pay their fair share of taxes despite Bar’s making the case of tax Justice many ordinary French fear that in the end they will have to foot the bill French unions took to the street to put social demands at the heart of the political debate their message to barer was we are watching you one group always creating headaches for French governments are farmers representing one of the most important economic sectors of the country country in his speech spier promised further Aid to Farmers but the situation requires a fundamental rethinking of the way agriculture is run in Europe not only in France nobody has forgotten yet the massive Farmers protest across Europe at the beginning of the year to go deeper on this issue let’s bring in Marco contiero EU agriculture policy director at Greenpeace welcome to the program thanks a lot for inviting me so Greenpeace is out with a new report warning that there are less and less family run farms and much larger so-called Mega Farms why is that a bad thing well the concern is that if we want to maintain uh rural areas uh filled with Farms with a rural jobs with uh specifically agricultural workers and with rural communities that live around these Farms we need to maintain Farmers on the ground if we go towards a US models so say with Farms on average having 300 hectares per Farm we’re going to empty rural areas and this is something that uh will clearly have negative impacts in terms of social uh and economic also uh realities on the ground let’s talk about this impact um um what are the consequences of this development for the farming business for consumers and for us as Society the problem is that we’ve been treating farmers as if they were one single entity we clearly show with this report that there are a majority of rather small scale Family Farms which are struggling economically which in in in many cases are actually getting out of business and there are there is a very minority of large scale Farms that have seen their profits increasing so there is this Gap is massively increasing and we need to come out with policy solutions to stop this Gap from widening and to start helping smaller uh uh um Family Farm uh farmers and businesses that have to uh be held because they are victim of a system and finally what would you tell young people who consider a professional life in farming would you support them or rather discourage them I want to be able to encourage them to get into farming because this will clearly provide a very good outcome the problem we’re now facing in the farming sector is that there is a major population average uh age of farmers is below 57 and we absolutely need a generational renewal but for this generational renewal to happen we need to provide young Farmers entering the business with a lot of potential uh uh successes right now for them is extremely difficult because land prices are very up they have been driven up also by the common agricultural policy paying Farmers on the basis of the land they own or they work and we need to transition toward the system where we reward Farmers that do the right thing in order to bring them to a position where they can make a fair amount of money out of their business all right Marco contiero Greenpeace EU agriculture policy director thanks for coming on the show today thanks a lot for inviting me again bye-bye speaking of Agriculture these twin brothers from Britain have been trying to grow the world’s largest pumpkin this year they think they might have cracked it the brothers who have four pumpkins growing for the challenge say their produce is increasing by an average of 30 kg a day and take hundreds of liters of water to grow them this big it only takes one seed but this pumpkin is being fed by 2,500 roots that the twin Growers have been monitoring every day since April they’re expected to reach 1,500 kg each the pumpkins not the Growers if this gives you any ideas the world record for the heaviest pumpkin to beat is 1,246 n kilos set just last year according to the Guinness book that’s it I’m Stefan groer thank you for watching take care and goodbye