Tanks vs tractors? - Can the EU keep shielding farmers? MEPs debate

For two years, farmers’ anger has been spilling over into protests across Europe, amid frustration over high operational costs, stringent green rules, and new European Union trade deals that farmers say put their livelihoods at risk.

Now, the challenges they face seem to be multiplying.

In this episode of The Ring, Euronews' weekly debate show, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) Ciaran Mulloly of the Renew Europe group and Pekka Toveri of the European People's Party (EPP) go head-to-head on how the EU can continue to protect farmers in a more complex geopolitical climate.

For Ciaran Mulloly, the current level of subsidies offered to farmers cannot be compromised in the next long-term EU budget, currently under negotiation among EU capitals. A staggering 30% of the EU budget is currently channelled towards farming communities.

Pekki Toveri, however, sees the major security threat facing his native Finland and recognises the need for the EU to reconsider its funding priorities.