Oliver Moore: Let’s hope EU sees value in Cork 2.0

The Cork 2.0 event happened Monday and Tuesday of this week. This was a high-level EU Commission agri-food policy event.

It’s rare enough that a conference leads to anything profound. However, it’s fair to say that the original EU Commission’s Cork Rural Development Conference 20 years ago was seismic.

The ‘Cork Declaration’ of 1996 led to Pillar 2 of CAP. The Declaration “urged” Europe’s policy-makers: