Copa and Cogeca argued in Brussels on Friday 28 April for the post-2020 common agricultural policy (CAP) to be updated but not reformed. The policy, said the farmers and agri-cooperatives organisations in the EU, must retain its current structure and remain “strong”.
“We want to keep the present structure of the CAP with its two strong pillars”, Copa President Martin Merrild told a group of journalists on Friday. The first pillar of the CAP comprises direct aid and market spending...