Environmentalists won’t get fooled again

Disappointed ‘green’ lobby have axe to grind at next week’s Cork 2.0 European Rural Development Conference.

With the Cork 2.0 European Conference on Rural Development due to take place in Cork on Monday and Tuesday next, there is hope it will put down as important a marker as its predecessor did 20 years ago.

Back then, the resultant Cork Declaration announced a 10-point Rural Development Programme for the European Union, which became the cornerstone of the second pillar of CAP reform, helping to shape and define rural policy in Europe over the last two decades.