On the morning of the 12th October, Farm Europe hosted an event on growth and resilience in the agricultural sector with Mr. Tassos HANIOTIS, Director at the European Commission in charge of Economic analysis, perspectives and evaluation for Agriculture and Rural Development. Mr. Haniotis outlined the drivers of challenges for EU agriculture, the counterintuitive link […]
Some things are inevitable, and rising demand for food is one of them. Yet, as is often the case, the questions of what to do about a challenge and how to go about implementing a response generate more questions than practicable policy solutions. Our discussion paper on food security is online here.
Beyond the measures confirmed and detailed by Commissioner Hogan on 15 September (which will be discussed below), global markets continue to struggle. The defection by Russia, and particularly by China, has intensified the imbalance caused by a production which has grown, in these last months, far higher than the demand. Some hope for a recovery […]
The European Union has adopted a piecemeal approach to the crises hitting the bloc’s milk and livestock sector, write Yves Madre and Luc Vernet in Euractiv. The EU’s response to the milk crisis – and to the crisis hitting its livestock production more generally (including pork and beef) – has been at sixes and sevens. Several hundred […]
The think tank Farm Europe held a meeting the 22nd of July to analyse the difficulties currently being experienced by Europe’s dairy industry. Attending the meeting were representatives from the production and processing sectors. The meeting reviewed current market tracking tools, recent changes in prices, and asked what measures the EU could take – at […]
ROME, 26.06.2015. Today, Mario GUIDI, president of Confagricoltura, finalised the organisation’s FARM EUROPE membership. On finalising Confagricoltura’s Farm Europe membership, Mr. GUIDI said: “Italian agriculture, as with all European agriculture, requires ambitious policies led by Brussels. It can not be satisfied with a weak consensus and no real strategy or economic ambition. Europe needs to […]
The EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations were launched on June 17, 2013. TTIP aims to create the largest Free Trade Area in the world, and to set a host of harmonised standards between the two largest trading blocks. These common standards could, by the sheer size of the trade affected, become the de facto new world […]
Read our new policy briefing on budgetary aspects of the EC’s three main policies here. In many Member States, Finance and Agriculture Ministers do not necessarily share the same political or strategic approaches to the CAP and how it might evolve. Agriculture ministers are more sensitive to the fact that by investing in agriculture the European […]
Today, Mr Juha Marttila, president of the MTK (the Finnish Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners), finalised the membership agreement between the MTK and the think tank FARM EUROPE, in Brussels. Mr Marttila said: « Agriculture and food are core responsibilities of the European Union both via the Common Agricultural Policy and also through many regulations that […]
Tomorrow’s UK election is a pivotal time for the agriculture sector, the outcome will have varying impacts upon the future of farming in the UK. The Conservatives, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, the Scottish National Party and UKIP have all discussed the Common Agricultural Policy in their 2015 manifestos, and have highlighted the […]