Waitz politically focuses on agriculture and the wide range of issues it covers, from food quality, food safety, and animal welfare to combating climate change. Waitz is committed to a common, eco-social economic policy of the EU and uniform social standards within Europe. However, he would also like to see other areas delegated back to the member states, in which the states can make decisions closer to the citizens, and cites as an example what he sees as unnecessary over-regulation for direct marketing by farmers.
