Phil Hogan says EU policy stands firm on three-legged stool

The structure of the three-legged stool, which was once a key part of the daily milking routine in Ireland, has not been lost on the European Union Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner Phil Hogan.

He told a conference in Athens last week that the Common Agricultural Policy is an economic, environmental and social policy.

“The environmental leg of the stool is crucially important and without three legs on a stool you all know what happens,” he said Stressing that the environmental dimension of CAP is here to stay, he said he “will not stand by and watch us lower our level of environmental ambition.”