CEPM Newsletter 36 Editorial: impact assessments: no science without conscience… “Science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul” said Rabelais 5 centuries ago, meaning that science must be subject to morality and objectivity. An inobjective impact assessment is an unfair impact assessment, one that deliberately misleads, distorts the results and unbalances the reasoning. It can then… Read more » Download
CEPM Newsletter 35 Editorial: Yes to solidarity with Ukraine but also with our producers! If it is obvious that the day after the attack on Ukraine by Russia it was necessary to support the Ukrainian people, the war has consequences that did not stop at the borders of Ukraine. Indeed, in the spring of 2022, it was urgent… Read more » Download
CEPM Newsletter 33 Editorial: The new Civil Dialogue Groups Since the original CAP, the Directorate-General for Agriculture has been organising regular meetings with all stakeholders in the food chain. The ‘Agricultural Advisory Committees’ became ‘Civil Dialogue Groups’ in 2014. The concept is attractive: to bring together all stakeholders, from producers to consumers, around the same table. In 2013,… Read more » Download
CEPM Newsletter 32 Editorial: National Strategic Plans, a democratic denial The Commission must be recognised as having a great talent for taking full advantage of the guerrilla war for power that the European institutions are waging. This is demonstrated every day with the delegated acts and, very recently, with the taxonomy, the latest avatar of Community policies. The… Read more » Download
CEPM Newsletter 31 Editorial: The Bermuda Triangle Everyone is familiar with the expression “Bermuda Triangle”, the vast geographical area in the Atlantic Ocean between Florida, Puerto Rico and Bermuda where hundreds of ships and aircraft have disappeared without a trace over the centuries. European agriculture is also faced with a legislative triangle where it also risks being lost…. Read more » Download