Editorial: El Mundo

• Rural protests are challenging European governments amid illiberal tensions in the EU. Agricultural movements pose not only an economic, but a political risk.
• The primary sectors generally feel abandoned, leading the Commission to adapt its green agenda.
• The agricultural sector, although small in population terms, is linked to a national identity perceived as threatened by antieuropeists.
• In Spain, agricultural protests have escalated, but the government lacks a defined interlocutor to address their demands.
• PAC aids represent a third of the EU budget, contradicting the notion of field abandonment. However, a balance is lacking to manage energy transition and the subsistence of a vulnerable group.

Conclusion: It is essential to open dialogue channels to prevent the exploitation of the farmers' frustration by populisms, and to avoid nationalist and xenophobic discourses that deny the reality of globalization.

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