PRESS RELEASES

02/03/2010	Amflora: EU Commission supports technology of the future. Joseph Daul MEP, Chairman of the EPP Group, and Werner Langen MEP
15/01/2010	Commissioner Hearings: Good hearing performance of Dacian Cioloş. Marian-Jean Marinescu MEP
15/12/2009	WTO agricultural negotiations: EPP Group deplores position of the S&D Group. Joseph Daul MEP, Chairman of the EPP Group, and Georgios Papastamkos MEP
20/10/2009	Council and Commission finally agree to EP demands for EU milk fund. Albert Dess MEP
16/10/2009	Socialists jeopardise EU Dairy Fund. László Surján MEP, EP Rapporteur for EU Budget 2010, and Salvador Garriga Polledo MEP, EPP Coordinator in Budgets Committee

POLICY

More than half the population of the 27-member EU lives in rural areas, representing 90% of the land surface. Rural areas are to a certain extent lagging behind urban areas; incomes are below average and there is more unemployment.

The members of the EPP-ED Group are aware that the new CAP will be based on defending the interests of consumers and taxpayers. They also realise that in future most agricultural aid will be ‘decoupled’ from production: single farm payments depending on surface area rather than production. In this way, our Group has fought to maintain the agricultural production in less favoured areas...

YEARBOOK 2009

The EPP Group presented its 2009 Yearbook on 2 March 2010