Swedish PM agrees to meet Viktor Orbán as Hungary holds up Nato membership – Europe live

Ulf Kristersson says dialogue between countries is needed amid frustrations following Budapest's failure to ratify Sweden's Nato membership

Populist battles are not the way to resolve the conflicts between farmers and environmental policy, the chair of the strategic dialogue on the future of agriculture group said today at the opening of the first meeting in Brussels.

Peter Strohschneider told the meeting of farmers groups and academics that they had a responsibility to drive their arguments through facts and evidence and withstand the tensions arising from this".