A new study by the European Parliament’s Think Tank examines how the EU’s external actions have impacted on support for EU agriculture and rural areas through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

The publication overviews how the CAP has been influenced by successive EU enlargements, as well as trade and aid policies with neighbouring and developing countries. It goes on to examine the strongest pressures on the CAP at present stemming from a new generation of Free Trade Agreements, the need to reduce agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions and to respond to Brexit.