The CAP is Parting Ways with the EU Green Deal

Representatives from the main European institutions, the Commission, the Parliament, and the Council discussed their respective positions on the regulatory texts for the next Common Agricultural Policy.

“The Slow Food movement considers the outcome of these trilogues a lost occasion to deliver a real transition towards a sustainable food system.

The result of the trilogue, which mostly reflects the position of the European Council, has brought about a CAP that still favors industrial polluting agriculture and monoculture at the expense of agro-biodiversity.

Today the AGRIFISH Council is gathering for a two-day meeting, where Member States are expected to endorse the CAP reform deal.

Last week, the trilogue negotiations reached the finishing line of the reform of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy .

The sea, the oceans, the small ponds along the coast were my very first playground before they became the subject of my work.

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