Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos to attend a debate with civil society on the EU agricultural reform in 2020

Event details

Organised by: Agricultural and Rural Convention and “Meine Landwirtschaft”

Registration: Email: info@meine-landwirtschaft.de, Fax: 030 27590312

The European Commission’s reform proposals for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union are on the table. Now it’s time for the European Parliament and national governments in the EU Council of Ministers to make their decisions. Since 2010, broad coalitions of civil society organisations have been formulating their ideas about how Europe’s agriculture and food production can meet the enormous challenges of the future: climate change, global justice, natural diversity and resource preservation, healthy diets and the development of rural areas are all at stake. Will the reform justify its claim to use “public funds for public services”?

On 20th January 2012, the EU Commissioner for Agriculture Dacian Ciolos will address these critical issues in a debate with civil society.

Agenda

10:30 Admission to the roof garden foyer and distribution of headphones

11:00 Presentation of ARC 2020 and “Meine Landwirtschaft” and their central claims with Hubert Weiger (BUND), Romuald Schaber (BDM), Joseph Sayer (Misereor), Ursula Hudson (Slow Food), Friedrich Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf (AbL), Astrid Goltz (Campact), Samuel Feret (PAC 2013, France) and other representatives of the European and German alliance.

11:30 Benedikt Haerlin (ARC 2020, Chair): Introduction to the debate

Dacian Ciolos: Presentation of the EU agricultural reform

11:40 Participant questions with direct answers from the Commissioner

11:55 Statements and assessments of the participants

12:10 Commissioner responds to positions of civil society

 12:15 Closing discussion

The discussion will be simultaneously translated into German and French

Address

International Congress Centre (ICC)
Roof Garden Foyer
Berlin
Germany