Corruption and Common Agricultural Policy: how to ensure transparency?
Channel: GreensEFA
Date: 11/06/2020

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Every year, the European Union spends more than 65 billion € in farms subsidies to support farmers.
 
While this money should end up in producers’ pockets, a large amount is actually taken by a powerful few.
 
The European Common Agricultural Policy, a system that was instrumental in forming the EU, is now being exploited by the same anti-democratic forces that threaten the bloc from within. Although this long-lasting policy has had its merits in the past, it fails to be the answer to today's most vexing challenges, including climate change, inequality and the Covid-19 recovery.
 
Deep reform of the CAP is needed, in which transparency and the fight against conflicts of interests are pre-conditions.

Our guest speakers Matt Apuzzo, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for The New York Times, together with Alex Brennikmeijer, member of the EU Court of Auditors, will help to depict the current state of play, while MEPs Clotilde Armand (Renew, ROU), Benoît Biteau (Greens-EFA, FR), Francisco Guerreiro (Greens-EFA, PT) & Lara Wolters (S&D, NL), will bring forward innovative solutions to answer this maladministration of EU funds.