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5 Fresh Links: Reforming the EU Common Agricultural Policy
25th January 2011
The economic, environmental and social issues arising from farm support in developed and developing countries often figure in final year teaching for A2 economics. We are looking at this at the moment as part of our teaching of the economics of the EU. Here are five fresh links on the vexed question of how best to reform the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU - including two recent videos from BBC news.
1/ Food and agriculture ministers meet to reform CAP (BBC news, Jan 2011)
2/ Commission publishes CAP reform (BBC, The Record Europe .. background video and then an interesting and lively three way discussion between MEPs, December 2010)
3/ Proposals for a New Round of Reform for the EU CAP (Alan Matthews, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development)
4/ Czech minister: EU needs ‘fair’, not ‘fairer’ CAP (EurActive website) - focuses on needs of one of Europe’s newer member states see also Global food prices and CAP reform
5/ Spelman calls to abolish EU farm subsidies (Farmers Weekly)
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.