“The current common agricultural policy is taking us down a dead-end and must be reformed”, commented MEP Eric Andrieu (S&D, France) on Thursday 29 September after the European Parliament’s agriculture committee adopted his report, “How can the CAP improve job creation in rural areas?”, by 32 votes to 7.
The text will be put to the vote in the European Parliament during the plenary session in Strasbourg, 24-27 October.
The report received the backing of all the political groups,...