Complete review of greening, retention of the system of capped direct payments, new risk management instruments and further incentives to encourage young people into farming: that is the broad thrust of what Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan will propose on 29 November.
The draft communication on the future of food and farming, a 21-page document, is a means of defending the budget of the CAP within the forthcoming post-Brexit Community budget that will be presented in mid-2018. Formal...