The plans’ “focus on targeting economic farm needs” translates into “into less ambitious environmental and rural development objectives,” the study concludes. [SHUTTERSTOCK/Africa Studio] Most EU ...

Common Agricultural Policy support for landowners not actively engaged in farming has indirectly negatively impacted farming communities, at the same time as the EU continues to haemorrhage farms at ...

Analysis: Of the €57 billion annual CAP budget, €46 billion was directed towards meat and dairy farming, rather than sustainable alternatives The vast majority of the EU's agricultural subsidies are ...

The Government's benefits cap will struggle to encourage people into work while saving taxpayers' money, according to a report. The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) studied the results of the cap ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The cap on the cost of long-term care of the elderly is so full of loopholes that, of those aged 85 today, only ...

Curbing child poverty by ending the two-child benefit cap would save lives and avoid thousands of admissions to hospital a year, an eye-opening new study has found. Charities and experts have long ...