31/01/2012
The recent round of proposed reforms to the European Union's (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was the subject of an animated roundtable discussion in Brussels last November. As part of its Greening Europe Forum, Friends of Europe welcomed more than forty experts in the field of European agriculture to debate the ecological, political and social aspects of the CAP reform. "The main purpose of this meeting, " as co-moderator Franz Fischler, President of the Ecosocial Forum, explained, "is to discover the different links between agricultural policy and actual development in Europe and beyond." Many participants agreed that much remains to be accomplished to tailor the CAP and Europe's agricultural sector to meet the challenges of growing global financial and environmental instability.
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