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CAP strategic planning: scope and implications

We are pleased to welcome this guest post by Emil Erjavec, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Policy and Law at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is a version of his ...

The greening architecture in the new CAP

The new green architecture proposed by the Commission has the potential to bring about a higher level of environmental and climate ambition if Member States care to use it

France’s puzzling interest in increasing the CAP budget

France's support for an increased CAP budget is surprising

Commission Proposals on CAP: Will this become another decade of biodiversity decline?

To save biodiversity European leaders must step up to radically improve the Commission's CAP proposals presented today.

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Alan Matthews

Alan Matthews is Professor Emeritus of European Agricultural Policy in the Department of Economics at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. His major research interests are agricultural policy analysis, the impact of international trade on developing countries, and computable general equilibrium analysis of trade and agricultural policy reforms. He has worked as a consultant to the European Parliament, the OECD, the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations and the UN Industrial Development Organisation, and has been a panel member in a number of WTO Dispute Settlement procedures. He is a former President of the European Association of Agricultural Economists but writes here in a personal capacity.