Stephen Cadogan: CAP transformed but food poverty continues

It’s worth listening when an expert who has not been slow to criticise the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy speaks up for it.

High farmer support prices that kept the price of food high in Europe were often targeted by Alan Matthews, when he was the professor of European agricultural policy at Trinity College, Dublin.

But that was in the 1990s and earlier, before Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler started to transform the CAP.