Interviews with policy makers

On March 27th, Brussels hosted the 5th edition of the Forum for the Future of Agriculture, jointly organised by the European Landowners’ Organisation and Syngenta.

The agricultural experts of viEUws.eu, the EU policy broadcaster, produced a series of interviews with prominent policy makers in the field of Agriculture and Rural Development. Two of these can be found below: concentrating on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy from an institutional perspective – paying attention to the role of the European institutions in the coming about of the CAP – and an environmental standpoint, bringing forward the positions of environmental lobby group BirdLife Europe with regard to the CAP reform process. Featuring: Paolo De Castro, Chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development in the European Parliament, and Ariel Brunner, Head of EU Policy at BirdLife Europe.

Paolo de Castro, Agriculture Committee Chair & S&D MEP, examines the CAP reform process form an institutional perspective

Ariel Brunner, Head of EU Policy at BirdLife Europe, looks at the future of the Common Agricultural Policy from an environmental perspective