Fears of repatriation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) have been voiced by farmers and politicians in the wake of publication of the European Commission’s proposals on the post-2020 CAP (see EUROPE 12032).
The worry for MEPs Michel Dantin (EPP, France) and Éric Andrieu (S&D, France) is that, under the guise of allowing states more freedom in allocating aid, the Commission is initiating a form of “partial repatriation” of the oldest of Community policies.
Angélique Delahaye...