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Please join us on MS Teams on Wed., Oct. 29, when Dr Viviane Gravey of Queens University Belfast will deliver a talk, "Agricultural policy endurance through unpolitics? The unruly end of the European Green Deal". Contact Dr Brian Milstein at the Department of Politics & Public Administration for link details. Abstract: How far are policy incumbents ready to go to ensure policy endurance? This paper compares the fate of three European Green Deal proposals, on pesticides, nature restoration and reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, which were all derailed in responses to the 2023-2024 Farmers protests. It contends that policy incumbents, afraid of losing control of policies which would directly affect farmers, disrupted both formal and informal EU decision-making processes. In so doing, they demonstrated that patterns of unpolitics, from fostering deadlock to rejecting rules and compromises, can be found in all three core EU institutions (Council, Commission and Parliament), and are not, as previously argued (Ripoll-Servent and Zaun, 2023), the sole preserve of populist actors. While mainstreaming unpolitics enabled a successful backlash against the Green Deal and allowed policy incumbents to retake control, these actions risk profoundly undermining the functioning and legitimacy of EU decision-making.