A Common Agricultural Policy for European Public Goods:
Declaration by a Group of Leading Agricultural Economists
The Declaration has been written in English and translated into several other languages.
The Declaration has initially been signed by one agricultural economist per member state.
Make your voice heard! You can can join the Declaration, invite your friends and colleagues to sign it, create a link on your web page, and write about it on the Internet or in newspapers.
The Declaration was presented and discussed at a high-level event in Brussels on November 18. Please use the following links to watch videos of the speeches or read the scripts (those available):
- Ewa Rabinowicz, Professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
- Paolo De Castro, Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Parliament.
- Pekka Pesonen, Secretary-General of the European farmer union Copa-Cogeca.
- Valentin Zahrnt, Research Associate at the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE).
- Tassos Haniotis, Director of Economic Analysis, Perspectives and Evaluations at the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development.
- Ernst-Detlef Schulze, contributer to the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for the IPCC and lead researcher of the 'Assessment of the European Terrestrial Carbon Balance'.
In many countries, articles have been written in journals and newspapers about the Declaration.