On Monday 16 June, on the margins of the informal meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Warsaw, Czesław Siekierski, Poland’s Minister of Agriculture, said that recent discussions between EU countries on the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) had highlighted the need to maintain a separate CAP, “with its own budget based on two pillars, because it guarantees food security and safety”.
The reform envisaged by the European Commission, which would aim to establish a plan per...