Common Agricultural Policy

Europe’s June heatwave wiped more than €2bn from the value of its grain crop, according to new analysis, with France and Hungary bearing the...

Professor Alan Matthews highlights ‘An impressive piece of investigative journalism. It not only adds support for the Commission's propo...

 The Financial Times has a major article this morning on the CAP as discussions take place on the next iteration of the CAP.   And who is in...

Professor Alan Matthews looks critically at multi-year EU budget proposals which have reached the European Parliament:  https://capreform.eu...

The Economist  thinks that getting rid of the Common Agricultural Policy has led to a more effective farm policy in England so it is one exa...

The news that Iceland is to hold a referendum on joining the EU in August reminds us that, apart from fisheries, agriculture is likely to be...

Professor Alan Matthews writes:'The likely size of the CAP budget in the next programming period 2028-2034 has been highly contentious s...

Just before Christmas, Dutch farmers received long-feared news from Brussels: they would have to drastically cut the amount of manure they p...

Fence to keep out wild boar on a family member's farm in Spain Voters and consumers particularly react to food price inflation which has...

Interesting blog post recommended by Professor Alan Matthews:  https://capreform.eu/institutional-reform-will-shape-the-next-cap/ This autho...

Summary of key insights on farm income trends from a recent study commissioned by the Agri Committee of the European Parliament:  https://ww...

 Professor Alan Matthews writes: 'The Protein Project has just published this beautifully-produced report with detailed analysis and rec...

France has become a net importer of agricultural products for the first time in almost a decade, prompting warnings that the competitiveness...

Professor Alan Matthew  writes: ‘There is great interest in what the Commission's MFF proposal and the subsequent modifications announce...

A 'stranded asset' in the Azores.   Remote and peripheral areas may find a shift in diets particularly challenging. As consumers shi...

The EU made some last minute concessions on agriculture to get the trade pact with Mercosur signed after 26 years, but farmers are still not...

Professor Alan Matthews looks at the EU's capacity to borrow in the light of the new budgetary framework:  https://capreform.eu/the-role...

Professor Alan Matthews provides an in depth authoritative look at the US-EU trade relationship in 2025:  https://capreform.eu/navigating-th...

Europe's farm lobby has once again shown its strength with a further delay to the signing of the trade deal with the Latin American trad...

Alan Matthews writes about the changing political landscape in the EU.  ‘The right-wing parties in power or close to power are generally Eur...