Animals Missing in the European Commission’s 2026 Work Programme

Two curious calves peer through the bars of their pen on a dairy farm. The farm separates calves by gender, selling male calves for meat and retaining female calves to raise for milk production. Undisclosed, Dmitriyevka, Chuy Region, Kyrgyzstan, 2024. Bogna Wiltowska / We Animals

The European Commission presented its 2026 Work Programme to the European Parliament today, outlining the EU’s political priorities for the coming year. The tone could not be clearer: competitiveness, market efficiency, and security dominate the agenda. Sustainability, social justice and any vision for a systemic transformation of the agri-food sector appear, at best, as secondary […]