CAP reform is a disappointment
European Commission finally unveiled the legislative proposals for the CAP reform on 1st of June . Together with MFF proposals from 2nd of May these form a disappointing but regrettably not surprising reading. MFF foresees some cuts in CAP financing that in itself is both something to be expected and rather positive, since as written before (read here , here and other posts on this blog) most of finances are in Pillar I that is well connected to negative environmental impacts. Regrettably the MFF proposal foresees proportionally bigger cuts in the already underfunded Pillar II, that will lose almost a quarter of its budget, while Pillar I cuts will be less that a tenth. No surprise then that there have been no cheers from environmental NGOs . One could hope that now, as the CAP is said to be transformed to a more objective-driven and programmable policy including both pillars there is no big difference how the money is divided between the them – but this is an illusi