Mariann Fischer Boel's Blog - Agriculture and rural developmentIn her blog, Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel wants to share with you her thoughts as she travels around Europe talking to the people in the front line on a range of issues pertaining to agriculture, food and the rural environmentHealth Check - freeing farmers- May 20, 2008 A day is a lifetime in the world of politics, as the old saying goes. So when I launched the preparations of the Health Check of the Common Agricultural Policy more than two years ago, we were living in very different times with agricultural prices still on a downward slope and climate change being something ...http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/fischer-boel/health-check-freeing-farmers/ Biofuels: seeing past the sound and fury- May 6, 2008 Back in January this year, I explained in this blog how biofuels fitted into the EU&8217;s developing policy on energy and climate change. Since then, biofuels have become a very fashionable issue but not in a helpful way. Public anxiety about sudden rises in global food prices has whipped up a storm of media controversy, ...http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/fischer-boel/biofuels-seeing-past-the-sound-and-fury/ |