On 21 November, representatives of a group of European regions will visit Brussels for a series of meetings with the main institutional actors of the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. After an initial political declaration issued to the European Commission at the start of the year, the regions of Bretagne (France), Pays de la Loire (France), Andalucía (Spain), Émilie-Romagne (Italy), Poitou-Charentes (France), Toscana (Italy), Bavaria (Germany), Oberösterreich (Austria) and Malopolska (Poland) continued their collaborative work analysing the Commission’s 12 October proposal and strengthening their position, according to a statement they released on 17 November. The regions’ representatives will meet Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos; MEP Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos (S&D, Portugal); and Andrzej Babuchowski, the Polish Presidency’s representative for agricultural affairs. These meetings will allow the network of regions to present its conception of the future CAP by outlining the conclusions it came to on matters such as the stabilisation of markets, quality policy or rural development policy.

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