European Commission determined to force farmers towards carbon neutrality

Comment

The Commission’s CAP reform plans are over-ambitious, and threatening to withdraw its CAP reform proposal has been an early mistake, turning the elected Agriculture Ministers (represented by Germany’s Julia Klockner, right) and MEPS from the member states square against the Eurocrats, represented by Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski, left.

Any doubts that the European Commission wants to transform the EU towards carbon neutrality have been removed by its tough stance on reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she wants a CAP to bring food security and a fair income for farmers, which at the same time enables the CAP to be “a key driver of the real change that we all agree must happen and happen now.”