Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)

Farming for and with nature has entered the mainstream

As CAP payments are oriented towards sustainability, nature-friendly farming can secure reliable funding for farms in an increasingly unreliable global marketplace

Thu Jan 23 2025 - 06:00

Any drift towards the right could be disastrous for Europe’s climate agenda

It’s not just the ‘far right’ who weaponise climate policies for politically opportunistic reasons

Tue May 07 2024 - 06:00

Farmers need certainty on climate change measures

Reducing Ireland’s beef herd makes more sense than a huge reduction in profitable dairy cattle

Fri Mar 15 2024 - 06:00

Greater effort needed to extend nitrates derogation levels, IFA told

Minister told IFA the support of other EU nations was required to keep the present derogation, and water quality must be improved

Tue Jan 09 2024 - 20:17

Make no mistake, this will be a more eastern, more Balkan EU. What will that mean for Ireland?

Ireland has been consistent in its support for Ukrainian accession and offering humanitarian assistance to Ukrainian refugees. However, such support is about to be tested as the implications of what a bigger, poorer EU means come into focus

Mon Dec 18 2023 - 06:15

Ukraine joining EU would cause 20 per cent cut in CAP farming payments, study says

Ukraine would displace France as the largest recipient of CAP funding, according to leaked internal EU report

Wed Oct 04 2023 - 09:46

Restoration of lost biodiversity will be a long, arduous and likely unpredictable process

Intensive farming in particular is considered inimical to biodiversity and responsible for the substantial loss in this feature of the natural environment

Mon Jul 17 2023 - 05:00