In Brussels on Thursday 30 August, members of the European Parliament’s agriculture committee were sceptical about simplification aspects of the proposal for a new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
A European Commission reprehensive made a presentation to the MEPs on aspects of simplification of the future CAP (see EUROPE 12058), starting off by saying that what they were doing was simpler.
He mentioned the end of greening (over-complex and ineffective), moving instead to strengthened...