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agriculture Archive
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High food prices: can governments help?
Posted on 22/02/2011 | No CommentsRead a commentary here from a food industry expert that a spark for the revolutions underway across the Arab world was the high price of food. There must be something in it: countries such as Egypt and Jordan are major food importers (a lot of... -
The EU gets the wrong farm deal
Posted on 21/11/2008 | No CommentsEU farm ministers never tire of discussing the Common Agricultural Policy. The latest negotiations concluded in the early hours of Thursday morning, over the so-called CAP healthcheck. The aim was to revise some aspects of European agricultural policy, but without affecting its overall cost. (The... -
CAP and the price of food
Posted on 15/07/2008 | No CommentsAn interesting discussion this afternoon on the rising price of food and what can be done about it. Newspaper headlines claim that prices are rising by 21 per cent a year, but that’s based on very selective research. A broader based measurement looking at what... -
The rising cost of food
Posted on 21/04/2008 | 1 CommentThe rise in food prices around the world is yet another issue that should bring countries together, yet risks driving them apart. The reasons for the rapid rise in prices are fairly clear. There has been a big increase in demand driven by a rise... -
Chris Haskins: CAP Reform – A Watershed for the EU?
Posted on 24/12/2006 | No CommentsFrom a speech to UACES by Lord Haskins, 15 March 2006: I believe that with the Fischler reforms the genie is out of the bottle, that farming should be treated within the Single Market like any other industry, that social concerns about the impact of... -
Reform of the CAP needs reform of the constitution
Posted on 18/10/2006 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 18 October 2006 I wrote last week in these pages about how the Common Agricultural Policy was first set up to encourage enough production, but actually had the effect of encouraging over-production. This phenomenon of people changing their behaviour in... -
A simplified CAP is long overdue
Posted on 12/10/2006 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 12 October 2006 It is good to be able to report some good news from Brussels. A new drive is underway to simplify the Common Agricultural Policy, having been discussed at a conference of national experts that met last week.... -
Will the CAP fit?
Posted on 15/03/2006 | 1 CommentA very fine speech this evening by Chris Haskins, giving the second UACES Lecture on the future of Europe, on “CAP reform: a watershed for the European Union?” Chris Haskins is chair of the European Movement, a farmer, and was a very successful chairman of... -
Trumpets
Posted on 13/12/2005 | No Comments“It is time to give ourselves a reality check. To receive the wake-up call,” said Tony Blair after the No votes in France and the Netherlands. Sometimes, on a cold winter’s morning, it takes several attempts before you actually wake up, remarked Paul Hilder at... -
Sugar debate shows that EU politics returns to normal
Posted on 15/07/2004 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 15 July 2004 After the excitement of the European elections, the approval of the constitution text and the nomination of a candidate for president of the Commission, normal politics can now return to the European Union. The first big issue raised...
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