The concept of ‘net zero’ greenhouse gas emissions enshrined as the EU target in the European Climate Law implies that...
I wrote a blog post in March this year “Food price inflation gathers pace” which used inflation data up to...
The European Union is pondering the possible introduction of a pricing scheme for agricultural emissions as a way to accelerate...
Overall inflation in the EU shows some tentative signs of moderating in the latest figures for the Harmonised Index of...
The distribution of CAP direct payments among farmers has been a continued source of controversy ever since the Commission’s 1991...
2022 was a challenging year for farming in the EU. Buffeted by weather extremes, disease outbreaks and rising input costs...
This post was first published in Acid News No. 4, December 2022 and is reproduced here with permission. In April...
Let me welcome you to the first blog post on capreform.eu since I last posted in July. The long absence was due...
On 6 July 2022 the EU circulated to WTO Members its proposed revisions to Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) for two...
Today I gave a presentation on the implications of the European Green Deal for agri-food trade with developing countries to...
The first priority of the French EU Presidency in the first half of 2022 under the ‘Agriculture and forestry’ heading...
The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM, the competition authority) has recently published the second of a series of...
Trade data on trade between the EU and the UK for the first six months of this year confirm what...
DG AGRI organised a two-day conference on its forthcoming agri-food promotion policy review on 12-13 July 2021. The conference was part of...
Whether the next CAP can help EU agriculture to meet the targets set out in the European Green Deal is...
We have become used to the mantra that the EU is both the world’s largest agri-food exporter but also its...
The CAP in recent decades has been largely an income support policy, particularly since the decoupling of direct payments after...
Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture (almost entirely non-CO2 emissions as defined in IPCC Sector 3) fell slightly in the EU-27...
The EU sees itself as a global leader in climate action. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was...
A paper just published in Nature Food by researchers from the EU Joint Research Centre (JRC) and FAO has for the first
The WTO General Council recently decided that the next WTO Ministerial Council meeting would be held in November
We are pleased to welcome this guest post by Dr. Norbert Röder of the Thünen Institute Federal Research Institute for Rural...
The proposed CAP legislation launched in 2018 made two important innovations in the governance of the CAP. First, it gave...
One of the objectives for EU agricultural policy set out in the Treaty of Rome (now the Lisbon Treaty) is to...
This is a second, long-delayed, post on the issues at stake in the trilogue negotiations between the Council, Parliament and...
My previous post discussed the general background to the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) and specifically its provisions on tariffs and...
Let us be clear at the outset. Brexit was always going to be a lose-lose situation for both the UK...
This post is written jointly with Dr. Norbert Röder of the Thünen Institute Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry...
Eurostat has now published its preliminary estimates for the economic accounts for agriculture in the EU for 2020. This gives us the...
How farms are structured in the EU has become the focus of increasing attention as a result of growing political...
The European Parliament approved last Tuesday evening the common position on the CAP Transitional Regulation previously agreed with the Council....
One of the decisions taken at the European Council summit last week was an agreement that “To meet the objective of a...
We are pleased to welcome this guest post by Dr Yelto Zimmer, who is the coordinator of the agri benchmark Cash Crop...
In my post in March 2020 on EU climate policy and agriculture, I highlighted the limited expectation among Member States...
Last week both the AGRIFISH Council and the European Parliament agreed their negotiating mandates to enter the final stage of...
The Council Presidency, European Parliament negotiators and the Commission have had several trilateral meetings during August and September to try...
We are pleased to welcome this guest post by Célia Nyssens and Bérénice Dupeux, Policy Officers for Agriculture at the...
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