Amendments are good news for food and farms

In voting last week, the European Parliament has shown its hand as it enters the EU farm policy reform for the first time ever as a full co-legislator with member states.

The parliament, which is the only directly elected European institution, has moved to weaken the CAP reform environmental proposals, while agreeing to reduce subsidies to very big farms.

Exemptions from environmental proposals for 82% of the EU’s farmers are on the wish list proposed by the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee.