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Experts warn that it will be impossible to limit global warming if the EU's food and farming systems are not transformed (Photo: Camilo Rueda López)

Pandemic reveals weakness of EU food system

The restrictive measures imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus have disrupted the usual cross-border flow of seasonal workers for this time of the year, affecting the EU's food supply system.

Farmers of asparagus, strawberries or apples across the bloc have already warned that they might have to ditch this year's crop season, which mainly relies on workers from eastern Europe and third countries.

However, the EU commissioner for agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, said on W...

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Elena is EUobserver's Managing Editor. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE.

Experts warn that it will be impossible to limit global warming if the EU's food and farming systems are not transformed (Photo: Camilo Rueda López)

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Elena is EUobserver's Managing Editor. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE.

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