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Latest from EU Member States

UK’s Truss Pushes to Unravel Greening

July 23, 2015 ARC

Greening was weak enough to begin with. Now, many ministers and the Commissioner himself seem to see the genuine greening component of CAP as more honoured in the breach than in the observance. […]

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CAP Greening: Ireland opts for path of least resistance

August 11, 2014 Oliver Moore

No real greening for the Emerald Isle as Ireland opts for everything but any significant environmental improvements. […]

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NGOs’ dismay with CAP greening in Britain & Ireland

June 23, 2014 Peter Crosskey

There seems to be a do-very-little approach to EFAs as part of greening in Britain & Ireland. Peter Crosskey explains. […]

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UK adopts just five EFA categories for CAP greening

June 14, 2014 Peter Crosskey

Genuine Greening would be, it seems, too much hassle for the UK’s farming & environment minister.. […]

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Greece: National Proposals for the new CAP

June 10, 2014 Myrto Pispini

On the 3rd of June, Greek Agriculture Minister Athanasios Tsautaris announced proposals for the implementation of the new CAP. […]

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Requiem for a Green Dream

April 15, 2014 Oliver Moore

Oliver Moore takes a look back at the supposed greening of the CAP, through the rubric of Ecological Focus Areas. […]

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Pressure on Commission over Delegated Acts

March 7, 2014 ARC

In the run up to Commission meeting on 11th March pesticides, cross-compliance and eligibility are the key issues. […]

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How Romania uses and abuses its poor in the name of ‘greening’

March 3, 2014 Luke Dale Harris

Guest post by Luke-Dale Harris : in Romania the main stronghold of sustainable agriculture is ironically held up by the least sustainable of sources. […]

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Hungarian response to CAP: how has the rhetoric changed?

October 18, 2013 Attila Szocs

Exploring the gap between the rhetoric and the reality in Hungary on CAP refrom […]

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Did the Commission deliver a greener and fairer CAP?

July 17, 2013 ARC

EU policy broadcaster viEUws take a look at the agreement reached by the EU institutions in June […]

Main stories

How the CAP could save 175 billion Euros

January 24, 2013 ARC

How a different agricultural policy could save 25 billion euros a year or 175 billion in seven years […]

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Equivalence on the menu

December 17, 2012 ARC

Could greening become one of the biggest victims of the CAP reform process? […]

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Member States want to postpone aid convergence

October 31, 2012 Samuel Féret

Distribution of direct aid among farmers discussed at of the Council of Ministers of Agriculture of October 22 […]

Recent updates

Birdlife report: On the road to rECOvery

October 5, 2012 ARC

EU Biodiversity Strategy […]

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Spanish Government ignores organic production in CAP

August 16, 2012 Myrto Pispini

Letter from ecological farming associations demands greater economic viability of organic farming […]

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