Thursday, 8 May 2025 | 11:00 - 12:00

Plenary 2 - Building an attractive farming sector for the future: fostering investment and entrepreneurship for generational renewal

Keynote speech:  

Gelsomina Vigliotti, Vice-President of the European Investment Bank

Testimony from a young farmer:

Anne van Leeuwen, Dutch young farmer and farmfluencer

Panel discussion

  • Peter Meedendorp, CEJA President 

  • Norbert Totschnig, Austrian Federal Minister for Agriculture and Forestry, Climate and Environmental Protection, Regions and Water Management 

  • Francesco Lollobrigida, Italian Minister for agriculture, food sovereignty and forestry

  • Jean-Christophe Roubin, Director for Agriculture, Crédit Agricole S.A. 

  • Martin Siemen, Vice-Chair, Rural Youth Europe

  • Erika Olsson, organic farmer and President of the Swedish organic farmers association

4 speakers