Beijing Is Not Coercing Spain: Madrid Is Providing the Influence for Free

In 2025, Spain became one of the primary targets of Chinese investments in Europe, with EV-related commitments up 147 per cent – third in Europe – anchored by CATL’s €4 billion battery plant. At...

Summer Reading List 2026

The rising temperatures may have told us that summer arrived some time ago, but the holiday season is now just around the corner – bringing with it the perfect opportunity to find a good...

New study reveals hidden economic and environmental costs of soil compaction in Europe

A new open-access study co-authored by FARMWISE researcher Landon J. S. Halloran has used a continent-scale modelling framework to investigate how soil compaction could affect European agriculture and the wider environment under future climate...

Policy and practice watch:

Questions FARMWISE shares with the EU CAP Network Every so often a newsletter lands in the inbox that feels less like external news and more like a mirror held up to your own work....

From nitrate hotspots to hard choices: FARMWISE at EGU 2026

Some scientific problems are easier to find than to fix. Nitrate pollution in groundwater is one of them: diffuse, stubborn, and deeply bound up with the way food is grown across Europe. It can...

Drawing Down the Well

For three days in May, Hamburg played host to a question with no easy answer: how can Europe’s farmers keep working the land as the water they depend on grows scarcer and less predictable?...