Common Agricultural Policy

The ploy by Ed Balls and Douglas Alexander to call for Dave Cameron to secure real cuts in the EU budget is a way of setting an elephant tra...

Fewer oil seed rape fields may be seen in Britain following adjustments to EU policy. It's quite a complex story, but there are two big...

Stuart Agnew MEP, the UKIP agricultural spokesman, has said the EU 'has become far too big to have a CAP.' There are certainly thos...

Fifty years ago saw the start of the Cuban missile crisis. It was a frightening time if you were fifteen years old, as I was, and whatever ...

EU Farm Commissioner Dacion Ciolos is said to be resigned to the fact that the current proposal for internal convergence of direct aid payme...

Long-term observers of the CAP know that any agreement between France and Germany can often shape the direction of the reform process. Even...

Those who like to emphasise the way in which 'discourse' or ideas can shape policy have been able to trace significant changes in th...

Last week’s informal Farm Council meeting in Cyprus – the first since the summer break – reminded decision-makers that gaining consensus ove...

Protesters from a variety of environmental organisations from the Slow Food Movement to Friends of the Earth converged on Brussels this week...

I have been reading an interesting paper about 'Quality Classifications in Competition: Price Formation in the German Wine Market' b...

The informal meeting of farm ministers in Nicosia from 9 to 11 September which marks the effective start of the Cypriot presidency after the...

The double change at Defra of secretary of state and farm minister has worried farmers and their friends, although new secretary of state Ow...

For all the talk of a drive towards simplification, complexity is a built in feature of the Common Agricultural Policy. It makes it more di...

The controversy over exchange traded products (ETPs) and their effect on food prices continues with some financial providers say they will n...

There has been considerable discussion about whether speculation drives food commodity prices up, although no definitive answer. My hunch w...

The recent cuts in farm gate prices for milk have placed dairy farmers under real pressure and there is no doubt that many of them are not c...

The urgent need to increase farm production in order to feed a growing global population was a recurring theme last week with a number of re...

In article in this week’s Agra Europe , European Commission spokesperson Roger Waite has denied that sugar refiners in the EU market are bei...

The rise in the price of farmland is leading increasing numbers of farmers to sign pre- and post-nuptial agreements to protect their wealth ...

English farmland has gone up in value by more than 10,000 per cent in the last 60 years. Research from agent Knight Frank shows that an in...