Kieran Coughlan: Why it's time to boot rural red tape into relegation

Mariann Fischer Boel, speaking in 2008, said that simplifying the CAP and reducing the burden of red tape was one of his “main priorities”.

God be with the days when former EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan expressed his view that there was too much red tape around the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

Indeed, another former EU Agriculture Commissioner, Mariann Fischer Boel, speaking in 2008, said that simplifying the CAP and reducing the burden of red tape was one of his “main priorities” and said that it would not be the last progress on the matter.