Common Agricultural Policy related content 

European Court of Auditors say that "significant difficulties" are hampering use of money by the EU's next member state. The European Union's auditors have warned that...

Ministers to discuss quotas for milk, sugar. National agriculture ministers will next week (23 January) give their first reactions to a European Commission proposal to end...

Programme for deprived people to continue for another two years. After a long delay, agriculture ministers agreed on Thursday (15 December) to continue the EU's food aid...

Biodiversity 'prejudged' reform of the CAP. A call for specific biodiversity goals to be integrated into the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was abandoned at the insistence...

Germany leads objection to specific biodiversity goals in the CAP. A call for specific biodiversity goals to be integrated into the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was...

Conservation groups say sustainable limits being ignored. Member states' ministers reached an agreement on the total amount of fish EU vessels can catch next year in the...

France's elections and Europe's financial constraints will hamper Denmark's efforts to provide budget talks with fresh impetus. Denmark has set itself the ambitious and...

Farm ministers agree to continue a food-aid programme for deprived people in 2012 and 2013. The agreement, reached at a meeting of farm ministers today, will provide...

Power-struggle between the European Commission and national governments over food aid. A battle over who should pay for free food for the EU's poorest citizens has turned...

The EU should help farmers turn agricultural residues into a profitable resource. Europe's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has long suffered from two chronic problems:...

The EU must play its part in producing food both for its citizens and for people elsewhere. As European policymakers and politicians consider their responses to the European...

The European Commission's CAP proposals would distort competition and perpetuate an historical injustice. The EU's institutions have made many good statements and resolutions...

Commission plans to allocate much more of the EU budget to climate issues are proving controversial. If the EU's much-trumpeted aspiration is to create a ‘low-carbon...

Proposals described as 'possible backward step' and defending the 'status quo'. Dacian Ciolos, the European commissioner for agriculture and rural development, will present...

We will look back on the latest reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy as a massive missed opportunity. The hue and cry of winners and losers will dominate debate about...

Agriculture commissioner admits reform concessions. Dacian Ciolos, the European commissioner for agriculture and rural development, has admitted compromising on his ambition...

Is the EU still about the distribution of wealth? Who still believes that the European Union is a transfer union, in which wealth is redistributed from richer countries and...

The arguments over the EU's future support to farming and the countryside. The European Commission is scheduled to approve next week (12 October) proposals to reform the...

Auditors say 90% of the amounts listed as recoveries in the represented reimbursements from national budgets. The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has criticised the...

Claims that proposals will weaken ‘green' standards, while court is critical of EU farming support policies. Environmental campaign groups have warned that the European...