Jessika Van Leeuwen (PPE). – Mr President, Commissioner Hansen, I was very pleased to hear in your statement that good mental health of farmers has priority for the new Commission. I was also very pleased that MEPs from all sides here today seem to agree that we are in trouble when we neglect the mental health of farmers.

I joined politics to speak up for our farmers. I am not interested in speaking about the differences that we have. I'm actually interested in trying to find what we have in common, and what we do agree on, to make stable policy for the future of European agriculture. We all seem to agree here that the situation is very severe. So that's good news. But without addressing the root cause, we are not solving anything and we are just putting patches.

Dear Commissioner Hansen, you are really our only hope here. Coming from a farm yourself, I call on you to reassess the effect of the Green Deal on agriculture, because the agricultural industry seems to be hit disproportionately by the tsunami of ecological measures that have been poured down on us by the previous Commission.

I think it would show good leadership to admit that the impact of the Green Deal on the agricultural sector was not well assessed, and turned out to harm farmers instead of helping them.

So let's work together, all of you! Let's work together to ensure a stable income, no unfair competition, but also room for a long‑term business plan for our farmers so that all farmers and their children wake up proud every morning and say 'we're proud to be a farmer'.