The European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has come to the end of the line and is in need of radical overhaul, 258,708 citizens and 600 civil society organisations and businesses said on Wednesday 3 May (see EUROPE 11759 and 11779).
The CAP comes in for criticism in the submissions of these citizens and environmental organisations to the public consultation opened by the European Commission on modernising and simplifying the CAP. The consultation period ended on 2 May and the...