Payments for the environment – new turmoil around an old issue
We are pleased to welcome this guest post by Dr. Norbert Röder of the Thünen Institute Federal Research Institute for Rural...
Improving governance of the future CAP
The proposed CAP legislation launched in 2018 made two important innovations in the governance of the CAP. First, it gave...
Farm and non-farm income comparisons
One of the objectives for EU agricultural policy set out in the Treaty of Rome (now the Lisbon Treaty) is to...
Issues at stake in the trilogues: II Public intervention
This is a second, long-delayed, post on the issues at stake in the trilogue negotiations between the Council, Parliament and...
Level playing field provisions in the EU-UK TCA
My previous post discussed the general background to the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) and specifically its provisions on tariffs and...
The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement
Let us be clear at the outset. Brexit was always going to be a lose-lose situation for both the UK...
Eco-schemes a work in progress
This post is written jointly with Dr. Norbert Röder of the Thünen Institute Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry...
COVID-19 leaves limited traces in preliminary 2020 agricultural accounts
Eurostat has now published its preliminary estimates for the economic accounts for agriculture in the EU for 2020. This gives us the...
Farm consolidation continues
How farms are structured in the EU has become the focus of increasing attention as a result of growing political...
The CAP Transitional Regulation and Next Generation EU funds
The European Parliament approved last Tuesday evening the common position on the CAP Transitional Regulation previously agreed with the Council....
The EU’s proposed ‘net 55%’ reduction target for 2030 – a clarification
One of the decisions taken at the European Council summit last week was an agreement that “To meet the objective of a...
EU Farm to Fork Strategy: How reasonable is the turmoil predicted by USDA?
We are pleased to welcome this guest post by Dr Yelto Zimmer, who is the coordinator of the agri benchmark Cash Crop...
Commission’s 2030 Climate Target Plan proposes radical changes in the rules governing agricultural and land GHG emissions
In my post in March 2020 on EU climate policy and agriculture, I highlighted the limited expectation among Member States...
CAP decisions make slow progress towards the green transition: I Definitions
Last week both the AGRIFISH Council and the European Parliament agreed their negotiating mandates to enter the final stage of...
The CAP in the 2021 budget negotiations
The Council Presidency, European Parliament negotiators and the Commission have had several trilateral meetings during August and September to try...
The European Commission must not greenwash the Common Agricultural Policy
We are pleased to welcome this guest post by Célia Nyssens and Bérénice Dupeux, Policy Officers for Agriculture at the...
