Score 0-20: Statement openly promotes environmental focus in agriculture. Examples: outright bans on harmful pesticides, binding pesticide-reduction targets, mandatory phase-out of intensive practices, climate-conditional CAP subsidies, support for Nature Restoration Law, ambitious agroecology mandates, full backing of Farm-to-Fork, demands to align CAP with Paris Agreement.
Score 21-40: Subtly, discretely or indirectly favours environment within agriculture. Examples: support for environmental conditionality on CAP without naming specific cuts; cautious endorsement of pesticide reduction with phase-in; defence of organic targets (25% by 2030); questions implying inadequate environmental ambition; defence of existing rules against rollback; pro-environment with acknowledgement of farmer concerns.
Score 41-60: Genuinely balanced — speaker engages both poles substantively AND advocates no specific instrument from either pole's bracket language AND is not deferring. On this polarising axis, this bracket should be < 5% of the corpus. Anti-examples: deferral ('more analysis needed') is NOT neutral — it favours whichever pole the status quo represents; endorsement of 'balanced/pragmatic/flexible' rhetoric coupled with named pole-100 instruments belongs in 61-80; substantive policy demands wrapped in opposite-direction framing belong in the substance bracket, not here.
Score 61-80: Subtly, discretely or indirectly favours economy/farmer-competitiveness. Examples: 'simplification' of CAP without naming environmental rollback; concern that environmental rules harm farm income; calls for derogations or flexibility on pesticide rules; questioning the pace or scope of Green Deal agri-policies; support for income stabilisation framed as competitiveness; mild institutional criticism of restrictions on GMOs/NGTs; defence of existing CAP architecture against environmental tightening; food-security framing as priority over environmental targets.
Score 81-100: Openly promotes economic/competitiveness focus, often with emotional language. Examples: repeal/abolish Green Deal agri-measures, abolish Farm-to-Fork, scrap pesticide reduction targets, demands to free farmers from EU bureaucracy, anti-CAP-greening rhetoric, populist 'leave farmers alone' positions, demands to lift GMO/NGT restrictions outright, framing environmental policy as existential threat to farming, anti-conditionality amendments.