CEPM Newsletter

Taxonomy and agriculture, the latest bureaucratic madness This issue, which has its origins in the Paris Climate Agreement, had gone under the radar because it gave the impression of a theoretical exercise with no real link to the concrete. The general idea of the Taxonomy is to reserve investments and therefore financing for products in… Read more »

Green Deal and low carbon farming The European Union’s objective of carbon neutrality in 2050 is not realistic without general mobilization. Recalling that agriculture and forests are, along with the oceans, the only carbon sinks on our planet Earth, the Commission, in its “Farm to Fork” strategy, plans to involve farmers and foresters in carbon… Read more »

Editorial: On European sovereignty The only advantage of crises is that they pose real problems and provide real solutions. This is the case with COVID 19, which demonstrates the importance of being in control at home. Land, agricultural production, food diversity, rural development, etc. are all indispensable goods. The objective is not to protect them,… Read more »

Editorial : Green Deal and CAP The scale of the Green Deal project initiated by the von der Leyen Commission is comparable to the creation of the Grand European market under the aegis of Jacques Delors. But the Green Deal has – unlike the Single Market – a revolutionary dimension because it aims to impose… Read more »

Green Deal and future CAP As we all know, true priorities are written in the singular. The Green Deal for Europe is THE priority of the von der Leyen Commission. The Green Deal includes a chapter entitled “From Farm to Fork” which integrates the future CAP. As a result, the work in progress in the… Read more »

In favour of real competition In its international trade relations, the European Union has perfected the art of sabotaging itself. This is even truer in agriculture, where distortions already began in 1962! It was at this time that the EEC – in order to be authorized by the GATT (the ancestor of the WTO) to… Read more »