{"id":1338,"date":"2018-03-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/uncategorized\/1338\/letter-to-eu-commissioners-on-the-future-of-cap\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T09:33:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:33:56","slug":"letter-to-eu-commissioners-on-the-future-of-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/issues\/nature-food\/1338\/letter-to-eu-commissioners-on-the-future-of-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to EU Commissioners on the future of CAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"leader\">\n\tEnvironmental NGOs, farmers, food movements and animal welfare groups wrote to EU Commission First Vice-President Timmermans, and Commissioners G\u00fcnther Oettinger, Jyrki Katainen, Karmenu Vella and Phil Hogan to voice concerns about the reform of the EU&#8217;s common agricultural policy.<br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<div>\n<p>Vague, contradictory, non-quantifiable and at worst unfounded and outdated EU objectives risk adding a new layer of complexity, market distortions, inefficiency and ineffectiveness to the CAP.<br \/>Such a state of affairs would not justify such a large proportion of the EU budget being spent<br \/>on the policy, and risks undermining the legitimacy of EU spending in general.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2018\/08\/8e7f6821-8e7f6821-20180320-ngo_letter_timmermans_cap_objectives.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20180320-ngo_letter_timmermans_cap_objectives<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental NGOs, farmers, food movements and animal welfare groups wrote to EU Commission First Vice-President Timmermans, and Commissioners G\u00fcnther Oettinger, Jyrki Katainen, Karmenu Vella and Phil Hogan to voice concerns&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26],"p4-page-type":[19],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-food","tag-farming","p4-page-type-letter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}